Lexus: Info on Lexus Car on E-Bay.

Yessss--I am constantly looking at used ES 300's on eBay, and a huge
percentage of them are from locations in Texas. I was starting to think that
there was something fishy going on. You confirmed it.



"TURTLE" <net> wrote in message
news:de... 

Can't this be reported to some sort of authority in Texas? Oh wait - Texas is
that way. The authorities are probably all on military duty in Alabama and are
who knows where. So maybe some Federal authorities? Or maybe eBay itself?

> There was one of these dealer that was picking up a 99 Lexus LS-400 Dark
Blue 
a 
As far as I know, every Lexus has a non-removable VIN sticker on every major
body panel. When you buy one, simply compare numbers and you'll know whether
it's hacked together or not...
/m

"MCBRUE" <com> wrote in message
news:aol.com... 

This is Turtle.

Very few states are tuff on putting Reconstruction title to a car because if
they did it to all the cars. It would cut the price the insurance company would
get for the cars and would amount to about a 20% cut in the price they would get
for it at the Auto Dealer Auctions. You can take two car exactly the same and
put a clear title on one and a Reconstruction title on the other. Clear title
would say go for $10K but the Recontruction Title would be hard pressed to get
$8K for it. The American Dealer will want the Clear title and leave the
recontruction title car alone and let it go to the Mexican dealer to take back
to Mexico to resell. In Mexico they don't care about this title business at all
and sell the fire out of them.

If it was not for the insurance company loosing money on these cars. They would
all have recontruction or Salvage titles on them.

TURTLE

"M." <com> wrote in message
news:eYZcd.16183$bellsouth.net... 

This is Turtle.

What you say is very much true but buying on E-Bay it is hard to see the body
part numbers from the pictures by way of the internet.

Also if the numbers of the body parts are different it could be the parts were
replace for a minor wreck or damage like a belt buckel rubbing on the fender
when working on it and the customer wants a new fender when getting it repaired.
It's just hard to tell about just a few body part numbers.

Also 2% of all autos have some minor repair or some body repair done on brand
new auto that come off the assembley line. 2% is a very large number of autos
that could have a different body part number on them. Looking at these numbers
is a very good thing to see about but it does have flaws sometimes.

TURTLE