357-horsepower 4.6L V8 8-speed shiftable automatic AWD
124000 mi US $110 |
New pads and rotors |
357-horsepower 4.6L V8 8-speed shiftable automatic AWD
63000 mi US $700 |
Replace rear brake pads rotors and sensors |
66000 mi US $600 |
Replace front brakes and rotors |
357-horsepower 4.6L V8 8-speed shiftable automatic AWD
143000 mi US $1000 |
Needed brakes. |
290-horsepower 4.3L V8 6-speed shiftable automatic RWD
87000 mi US $250 |
Replaced front brake pads and rotors |
119000 mi US $200 |
Car had begun vibrating when brakes were applied. Pads at 60k still had a LOT of use left. |
205000 mi US $1000 |
brake work |
290-horsepower 4.3L V8 6-speed shiftable automatic RWD
69000 mi US $1800 |
Rear pads, rotors, etc |
56000 mi US $40 |
Adjustment. Noted that the next adjustment might need a new parking brake cable. |
290-horsepower 4.3L V8 5-speed automatic RWD
120000 mi £2000 |
Steering lock jammed a year on from its previous jam. The first jam was cured by a mechanic with a hammer at no cost and little inconvenience ( in the pouring rain 200 miles from home). This time it was different: Car was on my drive at right angles to the road, and the jammed steering lock would only allow straight forward and reverse trave. AA repair man tried for 2 hours to get it sorted. Called in second more senior AA repair man. He tried to sort it for a couple of hours. Called in breakdown truck. Driver took one look at car, driveway and road and called out the local police to close the road. He spent 2 very careful hours dragging the car by its nose onto his truck and delivered it to my local, excellent, Lexus dealership. They tried for a few days to sort the problem out, without success. Sad news was that a new steering lock computer (I kid you not) had to be shipped in from Japan. Cost of part, £1,600! Value of car, about £2,000. Car in excellent condition so I paid the money. Total cost of the repair, including part was £2,000. It was obvious from the amount of work done before the new part was fitted that the true cost of the repair was far in excess of £2,000. So although it hurts to spend so much money, I reckon that the Guildford Lexus dealership were extremely generous in omitting a large part of their labour cost. By the way, we live in one of those areas in South East England where (almost) everyone believes that they have special privileges - Not just the Mercedes, Lexus and BMW drivers - all of them. So it was great fun to see an immediate build-up of traffic in both directions on our street with the policeman explaining to driver after driver that all they had to do was to turn around and take a 5 minute diversion - The incandescent rage on the faces of spotless 4x4 drivers was a joy to behold - especially as most of them didn't know how to reverse their vehicles, much less drive them off road! |