What a hard job it is to find the perfect second hand motor
Spotted a LS400 in dark silver.. black leather looks nice..under 100K in miles...
I sets off and drives 80 miles to the garage... now I had emailed this dealer previsously asking for info and any bits that are wrong with the car.
He states couple of stone chips and that was about it.
I was at the garage 3 mins
Firstly i get inside the car.. all seems well.. open up centre cosole and find that the clip was broken and the armrest would not stay down.. they had tried super gluing it back.
The notice all the find scratches and crackled leather... too much for a 95 i think
still the car looks awesome inside.
I get outside and look round the back and I decided to try and match up the joints on the boot first.. good job i did.. i could get my fingers in the gap!.. further investigation and found the car had had a shunt and the paint job was done by Steve Wonder
this was in 3 mins.... the salesman comes over and I said "this is not what I am looking for".. he asks what I am looking for... i said "A1 condition LS" he said it was in A1
I said not with the paint job on the back it aint... he storms off
So.. I goto Bracknell to look at a Black GS Sport... Very nice motor... very clean.. good leather, sweet engine... i could not pick any or much faults at all.
Here is the question for you guys
The car has full history.. stamps in the book etc.. BUT... no receipts... I walked away even before test driving.
Was i right to walk away because it had no receipts? my argument was that the car could have had some major work and it was hidden but not producing the receipts. Garage owner claims that it was normal on ex company cars due to the accountant having the receipts.
Would it of mattered and would Lexus Guildford have these receipts on their computer since 97?
cheers