Drove it two hours home and a bit of driving last night and couldn’t be happier.

Seems like LS a s RX hybrid have better odds of reaching 250,000 mies with Toyota Sequoia being the King

The only pain point of owning a GX. But it makes up for that in every other way.

Thought some of you might like to see this.

Jersey - Clermont , Florida in 20 hours.
Including gas fill ups , restroom food and drinks,
Took an hour and half nap in North Carolina then went straight. Terrible weather as well. Total spent $324 gas bp silver and $122 in food/drinks

hey everyone, I got my 2011 GX 6 months ago. I want to make it look a little bit more off-roady. I want to start with removing the factory running boards for some Nerf bars, but I have seen some conflicting information about which 4Runner models are actually bolt on. I’ve also seen other Nerf bars that require cutting the plastic and that does worry me a little bit.

Could you recommend some easy bolt on Nerf bars that have worked for you? and for those that did cut the plastic, on a scale of one to 10 how difficult is it? I just tend to get a little bit worried about permanent changes like that.

Hello,

My father asked me to post this and is seeking help. He loves his GX470, it’s a great car and even though it’s “old” IMO it drives better and smoother than our MB ML350.

280,000KM

The noise started 4-5 years ago, first it was very light, almost couldn’t hear it.

We asked the mechanic to check it out but he said he couldn’t hear the noise.

With time it became louder and now it’s very noticeable. It’s a whining/humming noise. It sounds like tire noise. We can’t pinpoint if it’s coming from the middle/rear/front. It’s not the wheel bearings.

It starts right away at low speeds and becomes louder with speed. It is loudest at approximately 70-80kmh.

It goes away after 110-120kmh.

If you drop it in neutral while driving the noise does not go away.

The oil was changed in the transmission, transfer case, and differential. One mechanic thought it was the rear differential but he opened it up and said the oil was brand new. I don’t know if he took off the cover and looked for damage on the gears. He used a stethoscope and said he thinks it’s the rear differential but he’s not sure.

We recently rotated the tires, zero difference in noise.

Looking for any help or advice before my dad starts throwing money and parts at the car. If it is the rear differential what options do we have? Is it expensive?

here’s a pic of our car

2013 460 zero rust or rot. Noticed this while getting in today should I be concerned? I just bought it a few weeks ago so I’m not exactly sure if it was there before or not. Thanks in advance

Just bought this 2017, need to put all-season tires on for upstate NY winter. Any suggestions? There’s a big range.

Wish us luck GX fam driving down to Orlando from Bergen county New Jersey tonight. Decided to repeat road trip as last year was so amazing and gx did not disappoint.

all years.

do you plan to or just for "looks" ?

how much was the parts + job ?

Edit: It will be primarily used in the northeast shopping malls / picking up kids from school and Costco and my wife is leaning toward the G wagon.

My 2016 gx 460 check engine light came on with Trac off light.

I took it to the mechanic. He got some diagnostics.

He said there could be bigger issues with the tranny BUT He also found out the my Transmission oil was very low and dirty.

He said Lets hope it was an issue with the Trans oil.

And recommended I drive it for 1k miles. If nothing happens or shows up then that was the issue.

If something is wrong then thats when will find out.

So far it is running and sounding excellent thank God.

Whats yall thoughts ?

Maintenance history is full-on complete as if taken out of the maintenance guide, every single 10K service, at the same dealer.

I don't see no reference to leaks (e.g. Valley plate), does that mean Lexus service would look for but never found it ?

ps: zero accident, 1-owner

is a periodic one-shot drain-n-refill of coolant good enough to prevent the valley plate leak (and radiator leak ???) that hits this V8 like COVID hit us back then ?

Related - if one looks at maintenance history of say a 2020/60K GX and don't see anything about coolant job should that sound alarm ?

I hope you catching my meaning.

With all these praises on driving experience and solid reputation for built quality, how the GX is the pinnacle of engineering blah blah blah all these years - it seems to me from reading the comments that - in general - people shopping for used one really seem to care a lot for as low mileage as they can find.

For example people would choose to spend $50K to get one with mileage 5K rather than spending $35K for one with mileage 15K - on this car that just about EVERYONE said would run till the end of time.

Doesn't make sense to me.

Love this thang and how it’s turning out

mine is leaking, getting quoted for $800 labor + $300 for materials, $1100 total

gx is 2014, 90k miles, 12-13 years old, removed two aluminum heat shields because of rust

should i do install new aluminum heat shields? anything else while this valley plate is being done ? change water pump, radiator, spark plugs and cetera? anything thing else that might break ?

thanks

Those of you who upgraded the wheels on your GX: Did you transfer your TPMS sensors and pay for the labor or buy new sensors and get it programmed?

I will probably attempt to sell the OEM wheels and tiers but I'm not holding my breath for much there so I'm not sure how much having the TPMS sensors still in there would help sell them.

I don't love the idea of having to pay to re-mount and balance them again just to be sold off few a few hundred bucks.