general problems of the 2007 Lexus RX350

Drove 2007 Rx350 approximately 15 minutes and returned to residence. 3 minutes later, walked outside and car was smoking from engine area. Within a matter of 60-90 seconds the car was completely engulfed in flames and fire department immediately called. Fd arrived 21 minutes later and car was still fully in flames. Once fd extinguished flames, car was a total loss.

While driving on the interstate I noticed something on the back windsheild, upon stopping at the vet to pick up my dog, there was oil all over the back windsheild. The rubber oil hose had developed a leak and within 5 miles I had lost all oil in my vehicle. Which has resulted in having the vehicle towed in for repairs to replace the hoses with the newly designed hoses. Apparently this is an ongoing problem with this model Lexus. . .

The vvti hose (engine oil cooler pipe) on my Lexus ruptured while I was driving which then caused a massive oil leak in just a couple of minutes. This was a faulty design by Toyota, rubber part was used instead of all one piece metal part. This should have been a recall. My total cost of repair is $367 u. S. Dollars and I am filing a complaint with Toyota to get my money back.

Exterior rear hatch handle covering melted into a sticky goo rendering the handle useless. Dealer advises there is a service bulletin out about this occurring only in florida and that it is not covered under warranty. Remedy is to replace the entire electrical assembly and cover.

I was driving on hwy I-south and I had my car cruise at about 68 mph. Due to downhill road ahead I took it out of cruise as sometime car goes few miles above cruise limit. Now there was uphill road so I put it no cruise again about 65 by pushing cruise arrow up direction. This time suddenly it accelerate and engine rpm shoot up very high and speed kept going up. In mater of 2-3 seconds it was 80 mph. My break did not work and I took it out of cruise and it stop going up. I was really scared that this may go out of control. I been driver this car from four years and I don't know how this happen. I feel scary to put my family inside this car. I have 10 month old and 3 years old daughters. I cant let anything happen to them because some software malfunction in this car. I am an electrical engineer and I also work in automotive and never came across something like this. I hope you can answer my concern.

My wife parked the cat in garage around 8 pm 5/31/13. She came inside the house and told there id smell of tar. I went and smell but did not see anything. I thought she must have driven over asphalt. On 6/1/13 I came back from workout and decided to put the car in driveway found pool of fluid on floor below the front passenger side. Moved the car and check what it is, smell like engine oil. I towed the car to pep boys. After examining the car they found oil is leaking underneath of engine and mentioned to me some kind of tube is leaking. Underneath of engine block. They suggested to take to a dealer. I towed the car again to redlands Toyota, redlands, CA 92373. After hearing the problem he said it is similar to a camery problem which was recalled. He mentioned the v6 engine of Lexus RX 350 and camery are similar. He checked Lexus recall history, it was not recalled on 6/3/13 he called me and informed that vvti oil line have a pinhole causing oil leak. He also reported as a result of oil leak drive belt is all oily I had to go thru hassel, loss of transportation and mental agony not knowing what happening I did research and found rubber vvti is prone to be leak (2007-2011) and. Lexus re[laced that piece with metal. I contacted Lexus customers service, they will not accept Toyota's finding. I had to take it to Lexus dealer. What a waste of time, gas, and unnecessary hassel. . . . .

Melting of the rubber handle of the rear lift door. The handle is extremely sticky like tar which transfers to your hand when you open the door by hand. Unknown if this is due to electrical problem with the handle or hot weather. Noticed this several years ago while traveling and found the black tar like substance on my hand. This vehicle was parked on the driveway when this problem apparently took place or just over time of being outside. For the date that this happened below I have used the date of purchase for there is no exact date that I discovered this problem. I can only estimate that it has been several years or more.

My dash is in really bad sharpe.