07LexusGuy

Have you guys seen this?

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/...ewID=news_view

MD350

Wow, news to me. Mine seems to work just fine, it lights up when my wife sits in the seat. I also noticed that my 6 year old daughter sat in the seat once, and the light did not light up. I figured it worked properly since she weighs about 45 pounds.

Interested to see what happens.

sdbrandon

My sister was in a frontal collision in a Honda element.

A truck moved out of his lane and hit her driver's side front end at about 25MPH,

Not one airbag deployed.

psp

Another reason to put em all in the back seat.

I have an easy fix. All Mrs. Lexus has to do is bypass the sensor so the passenger air bag will deploy in any collision, just like the drivers. Funny how they assume that there is always a driver in the driver's seat during a collision (DUH!). Ever since they got rid of the front bench seat you can't drive from the passenger seat anymore.

Let me be the first to opt out of any class action unless it's for rattles.

Rollin'ES3

Hmmm interesting to see what happens with this suit.

Are any of the ES350 owners here on CL having this problem or had it in the past?

jruhi4

There don't seem to be any issues with my dad's ES350.

Also, here's a link to a story and comments from The Truth About Cars, most of it centered around the fact that this is ambulance-chasing run amok:
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/?p=4468

MDames2

iTrader: (1)

My wife and I were driving about a week ago and we noticed that the airbag sensor showed that the airbag was off, even though my wife was sitting in the front passenger seat. She only weighs about 105 lbs, but that should certainly be enough to arm the airbag. After about 20 minutes or so, the airbag sensor did recognize that someone was in th front seat and it did arm it.

Rollin'ES3

Well, taking twenty minutes to realize your wife was in the seat is pretty bad to me. Have you taken your ES in for this concern? Or do you plan to?

ES350Bob

I noticed both that I owned passenger indicator would light up when I started the car with a passenger and then go out and later come back on again I thought that was normal....LOL

Seems it was not.

ES350lexus

I have lots of rattles too and the fifth time I took it in I was told that the field technician from Lexus headquarters said he does not hear anything it sounds like it supposed to.
I guess it is the characteristic of the vehicle as they say about the engine noise (sounds like a diesel) ETC