Power Train Problems of Lexus RX - part 1

There are multiple recalls on my vehicle and I am experiencing all of the recalls inverter failer vehicle stalls out alot. Crank shaft pulley is leaking oil and belt from the power steering maybe detached causing vehicle to stall. Inverter assembly causing the vehicle to stall and become non drivable. Floor carpet cover and retention clips. And my brake master cylinder leaking fluid causing major break problems. Every item I mentioned is recalls for the vehicle I have.

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Below is the email that I sent to both the manufacturer and the dealership: I hope your christmas eve was better than mine. My son and I were driving up to the poconos christmas eve to go skiing and I noticed the sonar detection light come on. When we were driving back from the poconos, the transmission would not catch around the second or third gear. The rpms would shoot up. The dash / warning lights lit up. I pulled over to the side of the road and I called Lexus dealership, service center, and road side assistance. However, due to the fact that it was christmas eve, the offices were closed. I managed to make it to my parent’s home, but it was a very dangerous ride on rt. 80. The odometer stated that we were going 50 mph, but we were crawling and the rpms were 4000. The rpms at rest were always over 1000. Additionally at times, the gear would not shift into second or third and/or bottom out. Obviously the transmission is beyond malfunctioning. Below are pictures including: 1. ) check your engine: a malfunction in the electric control of the engine, throttle or automatic transmission has been detected. . . 2. ) a malfunction in the intelligent clearance, sonar system has been detected 3. ) traction control turned off 4. ) secondary collision break system malfunction, 5. ) system malfunction 6. ) drive-start control malfunction. The vehicle has just over 3000 miles. I am beyond distraught. My phone number is (908) 625-9277. However, I think it's best if we communicate through email at this point. I planned a family ski trip to killington, vt for the new year. I would like to request a loaner vehicle so I can salvage this holiday. I look forward to hearing from you and your service department.

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While driving on a local highway recently, my forearm brushed the automatic shift knob while reaching to place my phone on the wireless charging pad. The transmission shifted into neutral, resulting in an unexpected loss of speed. It took me a few seconds to realize what had happened - I shifted back into drive, and resumed my trip. No accident resulted from this, but it has happened twice in the month that I have owned the car. I reported the issue to the dealership thinking my car had a problem - they said that this is the way the car is designed to function. I found a section in the owner's manual which confirms this - shifting from drive to neutral while stationary requires the knob to be held to the left for a couple seconds; for some reason, doing this while moving requires only a tap (see attached photo of the owner's manual). This seems like a design issue - the unexpected loss of power from bumping the shift knob to the left (no forward or backward motion is needed) could easily result in an accident. I don't understand why they specifically created a system where a "push and hold" is not required to shift into neutral when the vehicle is moving. I reported this issue to corporate Lexus today. They said they will consider this feedback in subsequent model designs, but I wonder whether a recall is appropriate. That's why I'm reporting the issue to you, as well.

Upon parking after 20-mile drive, severe leak of transmission oil from transmission oil cooler area, no warning messages/lights or fault codes present. No evidence of leak at starting point for drive, was sudden failure internal to transmission cooler with no evidence of impact/vibration damage or corrosion; failure was perhaps at welds of fins to tubing. Leaking oil creates fire and slip hazard, lack of any kind of warning to driver would have allowed continued driving until transmission failed except for luck that this was short trip. Vehicle has never been damaged in a crash, has been carefully inspected and maintained since purchase new. This is not a wear item and should never fail without external damage or corrosion, certainly not at 45,000 miles. Difficult to believe that this anything other than a manufacturing defect on this early production (VIN ending 002034) vehicle. Repaired by Lexus dealer with Lexus covering half of cost as “goodwill” (cost to me at ~$1,050 incl. Towing), although dealer attempted to return vehicle without having reinstalled air duct and lower shroud.

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I started to notice that when in reverse or coming to a brake at low speeds, the brake pedal and car starts to vibrate/stutter. I have driven hybrids for the last 5 years and never had this issue before. It is very strange that the car vibrates when coming to a stop and it is on going. It happens and then it stops, but always starts up again.

Safety concern: engine timing cover oil leak. Blind spot warning malfunction.

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It’s the third time that the transmission has hard time to move out of from either 1st or 2nd gear. The car jerks then plunges forward then I could smell burning smell inside the car after 5-15?seconds of the incident. The car only has 33,000 miles.

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Numerous issues relating to drivetrain of 2023 Lexus Rx500h: 1. . Read more...

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October 20, '23 our recent dead stop! whistle blower! did you know that when the alternator goes out on a Lexus, that the car draws down energy from the battery to keep the car going? that's only for about a mile or so, then the car shuts down! you can't steer and the engine stops running and you have no power as you come to a dead stop, whether on the freeway, or one lane mountain pass road, where we would have been later. What would we have done? scary! luckily, our Lexus stalled on a city street nearing our on-ramp to the freeway. (needing to be towed. ) Lexus has a serious engineering-defective-design-flaw that probably is responsible for accidents. Thanks, doug. Pass it on pleas!.

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Tranmission failure around 100k miles. Spoke to few others with similar engine and transmission from Lexus who had similar issues. This could be a widespread issue. Costs between 6 to 9 thousand dollars to fix.

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The contact called on behalf of his mother who owns a 2023 Lexus Rx500h. The contact stated while his mother was reversing, the vehicle shuddered abnormally. The contact stated that while his mother was depressing the accelerator pedal, the vehicle failed to accelerate as intended. The driver turned off the vehicle and the vehicle restarted after several attempts. The vehicle was driven to the shoulder of the roadway. The contact stated that the failure had occurred twice. The contact stated that the transmission was previously replaced in January 2025. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired by an independent mechanic or the dealer. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 7,500.

When driving, the car engine will randomly accelerate or race. The car does not physically go faster, but the engine revs at a high speed which is very scary. It will continue to accelerate while your foot is off the gas until you either press back down the gas pedal or come to a full stop. The car engine revs extremely loud making the driver feel like the car is going to keep going. I have had the car for 15 months and it continues to get worse. I have taken the car 3 times to the Lexus in freehold NJ when I first bought it to fix this issue. They were able to replicate it in my car but said the tests came back normal and told me this was a "normal reaction" due to the car being a hybrid. The diagnosis was that it was the battery discharging. I wrote to Lexus and the regional service manager, but they have all dismissed me. I filed a complaint with Lexus, but they also dismissed it. I just went on the Lexus forum site to find many people are now complaining about this issue. What is very interesting is that Lexus has now put out an "unintended acceleration (ua) form which asks questions about this issue. Lexus knows about this major issue but has yet to do anything about it. The other day I approached a few kids playing in the road and started to slow down only to have the car loudly accelerate/rev as I was approaching the children. Very unnerving. . . Something definitely is wrong and needs to be addressed. I was hoping you could help since the manufacturer refused to.

- uknown: 2023 Rx 500h performance hesitates or stalls when gas is applied to accelerate. When vehicle final start moving after 2-4 seconds, engine revs really high. This is believed to be an issue in the power train and specifically transaxle issues and ecu programming issues. More on this issue can be found on Lexus service bulletin record id #4807268. Yes, vehicle is available for inspection. - yes, with the vehicle stalling out in cross traffic, it has almost caused me, my wife and child to get t-boned on multiple instances. Lexus corporate and the Lexus dealer had been made aware of this concern on multiple occasions. - no, dealer has not been able to reproduce after multiple reviews. I do have video proof of the car doing this taken after final attempt for Lexus to review. This video has been sent to Lexus corporate and Lexus dealer. - vehicle has been inspected by Lexus dealership as a representative of Lexus corporate. My dealer has looked at it multiple times and can never duplicate and will not help. I worked with Lexus directly and also were not able to help. Lexus corporate has now turned my case over to their lemon law department for review on 7/8/24 due to this issue and many more issues with car. I provided requested information to Lexus corporate lemon department on 8/12/24 and have not hear back as of 10/24/24. - unknown: issue occurs few time a week since purchased the car on 2/4/2023, but do not recall first experience. Issue occurs more after the car has been sitting for a while on a hot day or not drove in a few days, and will stall out mostly on a left hand turn. The issue feels like the battery is dead and the gas engine has to take over for it causing a lag. When the engine does finally take over it seems to rev really high too. After it does it once or in some cases twice at the beginning of the drive it is typically okay the rest of the drive.

There is oil leak from timing belt casing. Only have 71000 miles on the vehicle.

This vehicle seems to have a well-documented problem with water intrusion that damages the ecu and hybrid battery. The 2006 and 2007 Rx400h has the hv battery located under the seat, which is the low spot in the rear section of the car. If water is spilled or the body has a water leak, the water will pool at the center of the battery. Lexus considered this, and added a drain under the battery, but the drain has a filter, presumably to keep insects out, and the filter is easily clogged. This, coupled with a pattern problem of split body seams near the rear hatch strut mount causing a water leak in the rear of the car, has created isolation faults in many of the Rx400h suvs. The condition presents as warnings on the instrument cluster and a no-start condition where the vehicle is inoperable. A search for "Lexus ecu water intrusion" brings up my vehicle's exact model and year so this is well-documented.

Hi, I purchased a brand new 2022 Lexus Rx350 from hendrick Lexus of charleston SC. Since day one I had dangerous issues below: 1. The transmission shifts up and down so hard, I've almost gotten rear ended due to the car and not braking. This I was told by two separate Lexus dealers I'm feeling a hard "transmission gap"-whatever that means. To add fuel to this dangerous defect is my autistic son would need to be specially medicated to ride in the car b/c he panics and tries to jump out. 2. The car also is equipped with a "rear kick sensor" that never worked, the service manager in charleston kicked my bumper and swore at the car. I had another service tech on video for minutes unable to open it. 3. The car, scarily, will not start on me or recognize the key. I've been 3 hrs from home and nearly stuck in a grocery store parking lot with my autistic son freaking out again. This is documented on video. 4. As if there could even be more, the car is equipped with rear collision warning. An example of this, is backing up in a grocery store parking lot and it senses someone walking and auto stops the car if I'm not already breaking. Well, last sept I was moving, had my autistic son's anxiety super high, and hit a pod for moving in my driveway doing maybe 2 miles per hour. But, and the big but is why did the pre-collision not kick in. This little bump cost insurance over $15k and yet hendricks is saying its not the car! the mysognostic behavior I've been privy beyond demeaning and offensive. 5. The big kicker is the car went to hendricks collision as I wanted a certified Lexus dealership to fix it and do my 30k service. They would only do the 30k service, service writer-again another mansplainer didn't capture all my three continuous problems properly, filled the ro out days after I dropped the vehicle last Nov of 2024-yes, a year ago. Lexus refuses to address my three warranty items and ran my warranty. No car in a year. Please advise. Information redacted pursuant to the freedom of information a.

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The contact owns a 2019 Lexus Rx350. The contact stated while driving 50 mph the vehicle delayed when accelerated without any warning. The vehicle was taken to the dealer for diagnosis and stated that no failure was found. The failure occurred several times and the vehicle was diagnosed several times, but no failure was never found. The manufacturer was contacted and stated that the vehicle was not under recall. The failure mileage was 17,500.

Had so many issues with this car. Transmission went out at 52k (was replaced under warranty), and at 86k, it went out again. Car overheated and won't move in traffic. Had to push and move it to the side. Had a independent shop rebuild the transmission. Notified Lexus, but won't help due to it was not taken into their dealer. Nothing came on the dash, nor showed any symptom prior to the incident. Thanking you in advance for looking into this matter.

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Driving the car on the highway. The transmission lost power & engine started revving with no movement. It was dangerous because we could have been rear ended. We had car towed to the peterson Lexus dealer in boise idaho. They said that the internal bearing failed & recommend a new transmission.

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Transmission wouldnt shift all of the sudden on the high way no prior mechanical issues was t boned and broke my leg abs and trac off lights mechanic says total transmission failure 121000 miles and this is the second owner of this vehicle.

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The hybrid transmission failed at 146k and the light went on. When we took it to the dealership, they said that there was metal bits. The owner of the vehicle when into the dealership asking the dealership to set tire pressures and inspect floor mats for proper installation, they performed an inspection and inflated the tires. The owner went in and stated that the check hybrid system warning light is on. Oil pump range/performance. Note: no road test performed. Possible additional work needed. Transmission oil pump inoperable due to metal in fluid shorting the pump. The dealership took a fluid sample. They had found lots of metal particles present in the fluid. They recommend replacing the transmission, oil pump, cooler, cooler hoses, and clamps, flush the metal lines.

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2020 had to replace transmission at 90,000 miles. In sept. 2021 - window seals are melting all over the windows. Will have to get them all replaced as a driving hazzard to even see out the windows. Now the tinting is coming off from the windows sticking.

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Around the middle of the month of January of 2022, I discovered that my 2016 Lexus Rx350 has massive oil leak from timing chain cover. Thompson Lexus dealership confirmed this oil leak. This leak not just happened, but it has happened long ago at least 6 months prior to the time that I discovered based on old oil dirty debris deposits and paints popped out and rusted caused by prolong oil on the frame. The reason that did not detect the oil leak right away was that I have almost not used the car at all for the past two years due to covid situation. Second, I have parked my car on my lawn, so that could not see oil drops. Third, I put my trust on Lexus and Toyota products, so I have not inspected for oil leak periodically. This oil leak has soaked many parts of the engine, frame, electrical connections, and possibly other moving parts such pulleys and belts. This can potentially create smoke or fire hazard and belt and pulley slippery which can lead to accidents. At the time of the oil leak, my car was under 54,000 miles and under 6 years, so it was still under powertrain warranty with is 6 years and 70,000 miles. I have contacted Lexus several times regarding this matter. I told them about location of the oil leak and when oil started leaking, my car was still under powertrain warranty but Lexus refused to pay for the timing cover repair. After doing research on Rx350 from timing chain cover, I have found out that a lot of Lexus Rx350 has developed oil leak from timing chain cover since year 2009 or 2010 model to 2016 year model. Some Rx350 developed timing chain cover oil leak from a few thousand miles of first use to 38,000 miles. Lexus was aware of the problem, but completely ignored and failed address the problem and issue a recall.

Dealership inspection. Disclosure-satisfactory throughout the list actual inspector-visible leaks to the naked eye when looking under the car. I was misled in this purchase as there are problems with this vehicle that were not disclosed to me before purchase.

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On 5/8/2020, northtown Lexus replaced or repaired the vacuum pump. Northtown Lexus required the vehicle to be returned for repair twice, following the initial repair on 5/8/2020. After three attempts, the vehicle's vacuum pump (per a factory recall) is not functioning properly. Northtown Lexus refuses to further diagnosis this defective vacuum pump and continued to decline any and all requests for repair. The vehicle operates abnormally ever since this factory recall was originally addressed by northtown Lexus on 5/8/2020.

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Check engine light came on on highway. Within a few miles, the hood began to smoke, so immediately pulled over. Towed to mechanic and was told water pump failure caused engine to overheat. Engine is destroyed.

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This car is experiencing symptoms exactly as described in the inverter module recall, whereby after highway driving, the electric motor will fail randomly, tripping all dashboard failure lights, and putting the vehicle in "limp" mode, where it either slows significantly or stops, and then thus poses great safety risk with surrounding traffic.

I bought a car from a private party/dealer only to find out that repairs needed are more than cars worth, then I checked car fax to find out that mileage had been turned back a lot. . This person lists 3-4 cars for sale a week and I can't find any one that wants to help. I know I am stuck with car unfortunately it was for my handicapped son that started college recently and used all his savings for car. I found that this person goes under several names and only location I have is where I bought the car. His home address is unknown at this time. Attempts have been made to contact him where I bought the car but every thing failed and person is still selling cars today. I forgot I was suppose to buy a 2003 but turned out a 2001, if you could direct me to somebody in IL. That can help I would appreciate it. Every one tells me to find a lawyer but all my searching came up zero plus no home address and no help from local law. Been 2 months of digging and searching. Please help.

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Tl-the contact owns a 2008 Lexus Rx350. While reversing the vehicle spontaneously accelerated and crashed into three trees. The steering wheel became uncontrollable /inoperable and the brake pedal was applied but depressed to the floor. The contact turned off the ignition to stop the vehicle. There were no warning lights illuminated. There were no reported injuries. Or medical attention provided. The police was on the scene however no report was filed. The air bags did not deploy. There was no fire due to the crash. The local dealer was not contacted and vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was contacted who provided case number 1910022083 and stated the vehicle will be inspected. The failure mileage was 103,000. The contact stated the vehicle was un-drive able. Ap.

3. 5 l engine has problems with oil cooling pipe/hose. It leaks oil every 4 to 5 years. Danger is emptying the motor oil without notice. One can easily burn the engine if gone unnoticed. And get stranded anywhere without warning.

2000 Rx300 do not shift into the 3 gear while driving, the transmission shifts from 1 &2 but not 3. The engine speed is high and doesn't shift. We haven't driven it since, trying to find out what to do next with this vehicle. I have a friend that have the same make & model and he's had the same problems also!.

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1. Transmission unexpectedly completely shut down while driving on the freeway. Car jumped forward and completely stopped on the fast lane. I had to call for towing. Transmission was replaced at mechanic shop. Happen in November 2016 2. Oil shooting from the broken hose close to the engine while driving on the freeway. Stopped car and call for towing. Replacement of hose completed at mechanic shop. Happen in 2014. Reimbursed by manufacturer. 3. Random flashing of air bag lights (driver) without any reason. Looks like some sensor/electrical malfunction. Happening now.

Auto transmission frequently jerks and seems to search for a gear when starting from a stop. This problem is noted in other vehicles manufactured by Toyota. Dealerships tell me it is a reported problem but there is no remedy. Problem exists from date of purchase may 2016.

Water pump failed on 2009 lexux Rx350 at 61500 miles and just 4 months over the powertrain warrenty. Lexus declined the claim. Engine overheating caused head gasket failure and warped cylinder head. 1. As per local mechanic who replaced water pump , there were indication of coolant leaking from water pump seal and it must be leaking for quite long time, even when vehicle was under warranty. There was enough volume of coolant when this incident happened, indicates that leakage was very minor and my not appear on the floor where car was parked. 2. Water pump is part of powertrain and has no direct influence of driving pattern. Failure of water pump at 61000 miles is very pre-mature and indicate toward inherent problem with water pump quality. 3. Safety issue: there were no signs of water pump failure until last moment when it actually gave up and check engine lights came up. There was very little time before check engine lights came on and further damage due to overheating. If it was ignored for couple of miles car would have caught into fire 4. Powertrain warranty is 70000 miles or 72 months, whereas cars mileage is 61000 and time since first usage is 75 months (just 3 months over the warranty). Considering close proximity to warranty expiration, Lexus should consider this for warranty extension. 5. This engine series ( 3. 5l ) is infamous for cooling system issues and several service bulletins have been issued regarding it. 6. Several complains have been filed about the similar problem, where water pump failure and subsequent engine damage.

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I was just getting off the highway and my car stopped moving. My transmission totally went out with no warning. If this would have happened moments sooner I could have been in a terrible accident as I was going 60 mph. I tried to contact Lexus, but they will not admit to this problem or help repair it or recall it. They say that it isn't a know issue but it is and several people have tried to get help with it and Lexus will say no. Be careful, it will happen with no warning.