spirits
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Happy New Year fellow Tuggers. I am writing this post because I know you, as a group, are a wonderful source of knowledge.
My son has followed my husband in his love of well built cars and bought himself a beautiful 2008 Lexus gs 460 last year. Although pre owned, it was lovingly looked after. He has 150000km on the engine and has looked after it over the last year of ownership.
He has spoken to us about his car's brakes failing twice. Once last year and now just last month. Both times he was almost coming to a stop, braked the car and the car did not come to a complete stop. He at first thought the car had skidded on some ice and discounted it. Then a year later as he was braking at his brother's house, the car continued to move, uphill, until it hit the fence. He has it documented on a dash cam. He has taken it to the Lexus dealership and they put it through a 1500 dollar checklist (he did not pay for it) and it shows nothing wrong.
The dealership will be following up with head office and he is going to wait and see what they have to say.
Safety has always been number one for us. We would never sell the car to anyone knowing this piece of history. I have been on some Lexus forums and there is no mention of this as a problem. Tuggers, have you ever heard of anything like this?
My son has followed my husband in his love of well built cars and bought himself a beautiful 2008 Lexus gs 460 last year. Although pre owned, it was lovingly looked after. He has 150000km on the engine and has looked after it over the last year of ownership.
He has spoken to us about his car's brakes failing twice. Once last year and now just last month. Both times he was almost coming to a stop, braked the car and the car did not come to a complete stop. He at first thought the car had skidded on some ice and discounted it. Then a year later as he was braking at his brother's house, the car continued to move, uphill, until it hit the fence. He has it documented on a dash cam. He has taken it to the Lexus dealership and they put it through a 1500 dollar checklist (he did not pay for it) and it shows nothing wrong.
The dealership will be following up with head office and he is going to wait and see what they have to say.
Safety has always been number one for us. We would never sell the car to anyone knowing this piece of history. I have been on some Lexus forums and there is no mention of this as a problem. Tuggers, have you ever heard of anything like this?