I BOUGHT A CHEAP LEXUS IS for £750!

[Music] all right guys how's it going welcome back well i'm back in the uk after spending the weekend in spain now i'm back and refreshed and energized and ready to hit the job hard again i thought i'd share with you what's coming past exchange over the weekend i do feel like i've taken my eyes off the ball slightly recently and i can't afford for that to happen so the first one we've bought is a lexus is which i've given just 750 pounds for it's a 2007 model so it's that well it's that mark ii model for 750 quid i don't know much about it but you can't go wrong really or hopefully not anyway i'm not sure what it's like it's been described to me as being okay but the bootleg needs repainting it's had paint at some point and now it's all grazed and cracked mechanically i think it's okay i mean nothing's been said specifically so i assume no news is good news and it's alexis at the end of the day these cars are usually bulletproof so says every single armchair expert anyway i should be able to run this for at least another 50 years and only have to replace the tires and perhaps a bulb that's how the comments go anyway isn't it i've had my two other events for 27 years and all of that to do is replace that lump bulb and a couple of wiper blades oh yeah very interesting how fascinating well here we are then so it's finished in like a dark gray color which suits it quite well it's a 2007 it's got the better wheels on it my opinion looks alright though right let me do a vehicle history check it's important before you buy a car that you check its history now i always use a company called car vertical if you click the link below in the video description and use the promo code high peak you'll get 10 off each and every check that you do so all you need to do is go to car vertical dot com it'll ask you for your registration plate which in our case is dg07 bravo oscar hotel and then sit back and wait while it checks databases in dozens of countries right in the reports ready so let's check it out the mileage is accurate no mileage fraud was disclosed it's never been stolen never been any accidents now it's done in finance so we're all clear it was manufactured in august 2006 and it was later registered in march 2007. we've got all the old mots on here as well so we can see what kind of life it's had it had a private reg change in 2014. let's see if it's got an mot on it right so it's passed its mot with no advisory items in october 2021 so we've got what are we on now we've got five months mot left that's good the mileage the margin the last 90 was 115 000 and it's done it's only done about 4000 miles a year this right that's not too bad is it as of today the estimated mileage of this car should be around 117. let's have a look what the market value is berry might not have paid 750 pounds for this which now i've seen it i think that's a bargain the approximate market value of this car is 1689 pounds uh that's disappointing it's an is-220 diesel i was hoping it was an is-250 the 220 diesel has a 2.2 liter d4d turbo diesel engine and they only did it manual that's a pity the 250 petrol is a cracking engine the 220 diesel not so much let's go have a look then god the wind's got even worse so it needs a good clean what's the brand of tyre we've got an a plus whoever makes those i don't think it's a brilliant one i just want to clean looks quite tidy down the panels doesn't it ah that's the boot lid they did tell me about this look at the state of that it's been painted and now it's obviously reacted and it's got feels like the texture of a chalkboard we've got west weigh nissan plates yeah once the bootleg painting that's terrible to be fair i was warned of it so have we got a matching a plus on this side uh yes we do and there's about a bit of crack in there on the side wall and there's about four mil of tread left it's quite tidy down the panels although it does want a good buff not bad no sunroof the wheels need refurbing as well because they're all curbed that's terrible actually and they're quite a nice design of wheel we have got a land sail on the front no expense spared here headlamps are cloudy that's typical japanese car isn't it really they will buff back though and there's zen on lights actually i think then this is a good spec car this will be an sei or an sel another land sail there right i think this is the kind of car that could be transformed quite easily refurbish the wheels paint the boot lid buff the headlamps we've got a car oh we've got keyless entry that's good this is a good spec you know we've got electric seats powerful mirrors xenon lights sat nav very good what a pity though that it's a two liter diesel 2.2 litre diesel i'm not a fan of this engine it suffers quite famously with blown head gaskets so i think what we should do first is have a look under the bonnet but the struts still work that's good right it's very dirty under here the battery looks like it's been replaced fairly recently no obvious oil leaks though looks quite dry let's have a look there we go we're looking here for some mayonnaise let's see if the head gasket's blown i can't see any that's a good sign then it's the oil like on the dipstick is it like honey or like tar uh not too bad actually it's black but it's not that's stodgy i like the fact that he's got a traditional dipstick rather than some sensor a bit old-fashioned like that well the inside wants a good clean but it's quite tidy a bit of leather a bit of leather wear there on the bolster quite clean in the back smells quite fresh what else can i tell you about it let's try and fire it up then there's loads of travel there on the handbrake that wants adjusting or new cables it doesn't even sound nice this diesel engine either bit of andy williams [Music] that was of course smooth fm how do i turn the climate off oh the air conditioning works as well oh hang on a minute i'm just about to say how am i this lucky we've got an engine light on and we've got a traction control light on and it says check vsc it was all going too well wasn't it too well we've got a puppy there i'd like to see that has it been smoked yes it's been spoken it's a pity let's see if we can turn no so there's a fault here with the vsc and an engine light on terrific doesn't sound good that at all sounds quite poorly let's check the service history who do you think zoned a car like this might help if i actually look at the service bookmark rather than the audio book no there isn't one right no service book that's a shame usually usually now i am generalizing but usually lexus owners look after the cars better than this because going off the fact that we've got land sail tires on the front and a plus who i've never heard of on the back and an engine light on and no service history this doesn't look like it's been lavished with money does it let's take it for a drive then and see how bad it is but it's a good spec we've got a reverse camera as well it's like whistle from the turbo i don't know whether that's normal or not i would say going off the heart-shaped air freshener the smooth fm and the curved wheels i'm guessing the previous owner was a lady in her late 50s that's what i'm gonna go with i'm so gutted that he's got a diesel engine this is this is one car that's been ruined by the diesel engine the is i think is a great car the 250 is brilliant we never got the 350 but i imagine it's very good but then they dropped a horrible dirty diesel in it alexis lexus don't really do diesels which is one thing i liked about the brand this isn't this isn't quite right it doesn't pull like it like it should the 2.2 litre diesel should feel quicker than this that is my foot right to the board now and we're doing well yeah no i think there's a turbo fault here if i'm looking at something like a turbo actuator if i'm unlucky then it's a whole turbo we could be into five six seven hundred pounds it's not quite right that you can hear it whistling no oh well kind of always at least the air conditioning works let me try and get that to blow more air at me everything else seems okay on it though i don't even know why i'm checking the windows on a japanese car clutch feels okay steering feels okay that's my foot completely to the floor that just lurched and that wasn't smooth at all this this is quite a poorly carlos when you get to three and a half thousand rpm it judders let me try that again drop it down into second we're at 2000 rpm foot to the floor 3000 rpm oh yeah that's so good is it it's got whiplash then oh and now we're in limp mode oh dear carl's how you doing you just love them yeah that's not good at all is it we're now doing six miles an hour and oh that sounds horrible can you hear that i think i've just made it worse oh dear well this is quite relaxing isn't it oh this is by the looks of this i think i'll be walking back it won't let me right oh jesus what am i doing what am i doing here and we've died i couldn't have broken down in a worse place either right we've got a bit more power now let me see if i can just coast this back to that car park before i end up having to get towed that's stressful i think what i'll do with this next is limp it down to my mechanics yeah that's what i'm gonna do get them to plug it in and try and diagnose it see if it is a turbo i don't know i can't remember whether these engines are a chain driven engine or not could be a timing chain either way i don't think it's gonna be cheap is it i knew it was too good to be true this is 750. and there was no mention of the engine light being on typical typical typical right well i'll catch up with you in a little bit then once i've plugged it in and see what's wrong with it all right guys welcome back well it's been around two months since i first filmed the intro for this car and it's quickly become one of those cars that i just wish i hadn't bothered with i wish i hadn't got anywhere near it but now i'm too far into it i suppose firstly look at the transformation this car has been completely turned around let me give you a run through what i've done after i broke down last time i managed to crawl it down to my mechanics and i had them plug it in ultimately i wanted a service mot on it but i asked them to see why the engine light was on and see why it was running like a bag of nails later that day they called me with some good news it was coming up with a fuel code so when they checked the fuel filter it was probably the original one on the card it was all clogged up so it wasn't allowing any fuel to come through or much fuel anyway so they changed that for a new one and it was running fine so they did the service and the mot and that was all fine so i picked it up from there and it was driving great took it to the body shop asked them to paint the boot lid polish the headlamps and just give it a general touch up now jim has done a great job on this he's probably watching but he has done another great job he's buffed the whole car above the headlamps painted the tailgate or the boot lid but then he called me to say the bonnet's really letting the car down there were a few small rust spots on it so he recommended painting the whole bonnet i know i've had that done i think it looks great i ordered a new set of reg plates because the old ones are really worn they've instantly lifted it then i took it to get its wheels refurbished and again he's done a really good job as well they look like you the whole car looks like three or four thousand pounds worth all day long i think but and it's quite a big but it's still got that fault the fuel filter didn't cure it i knew i wasn't that lucky i'm never that lucky my mate kindly picked it up for me after i had the wheels refurbished and he called me he said matt there's just something wrong with this car straight away i knew he said it's just running rough it doesn't sound right it just doesn't have the power that a 2.2 or two liters or whatever it is should have so i knew that i just wasn't out of the woods yet and it's also can you hear that it's also developed another little fault it thinks that my rear right door there is open only when i go around a left-hander so i need to get that sorted it's a bit annoying though i could use some more roman roads some days i just hate cars now having spoke to my mechanic i think this might need a fuel pump the symptoms are all kind of fuel starvation related but i thought i'd keep you all updated before i take it back there for its new fuel pump and then fingers crossed i hope that cures it but really who knows let me find somewhere nice to stop and i'll go through my costs but this isn't the the bargain that i thought it was and it's still got that running issue right catch with you in a second it's irritating isn't it right so i paid 750 pounds for the car i spent 150 of my mechanics i spent 170 on the wheels 485 on the paint 20 on some reg plates and 70 on a valet so my total is 1 645 pounds far more than the 750 i paid for the car but i still think this is a 3000 pound car so even with a fuel pump if that fingers crossed if that resolves it if that's a two or three hundred pound job there should still be a thousand pounds profit in this car a lot of heartache and misery but still should be some profit so i think that's about it thank you once again for watching make sure you give the video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it make sure you subscribe if you haven't done already you can follow me on facebook instagram twitter i'll leave the link below and yeah cheers guys i'll see you next time [Music] you

Channel: High Peak Autos

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Length: 18min 3sec (1083 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 15 2022