15951

Loved my IS350, but I've never seen anything like this. Brakes...fuel rails...seat belts...gas pedals...steering...and now this.

My past/current cars for reference:

'10 G37 - 1 TSB for seek button reprogram
'08 Durango - No recalls
'06 Escape - No recalls
'04 Durango - No recalls
'00 Maxima - No recalls
'98 Ranger - 1 recall at 6 years old for electrical

I can't remember recalls for cars I had before that, but I think this goes beyond Toyota being "targets" of the media. I hope this is the last recall. Loved my IS, and I miss it sometimes...but I don't miss the regular official correspondence about service campaigns and recalls.

Good luck to everyone having the repair done. The one thing I can say is that Lexus tends to repair these problems without breaking something else, which says a lot!!

MBTC

No recalls doesn't necessarily mean no flaws, it just means the company is not owning up to flaws. My '02 Maxima had at least half a dozen recalls, a couple of them were safety-jeapordizing. Then there was stuff that was never recalled but was rediculously stupid -- stereo speakers blew out regularly, hood shook up and down when driving, looked like it would come loose, need $600 for full brake job every 40k or so because it chewed through rotors like they were gum, the wheel bearings and hub assemblies went tidtsup every couple of years and were about $500 per wheel to replace -- what's worse is you didn't know they were bad until they started making noise, and by that time it meant you had about a 50/50 chance of surviving driving it into the dealership instead of having it towed (unfortunate since you didn't know what the noise was until you got there). A good friend of mine has a Mazda Speed6 he bought new, and it stalls on him (most likely carbon build up, direct injection as well). But there haven't been any recalls or even any help from the dealer. He wants to dump the car before the warranty is out because the quality he has seen from Mazda thus far scares him. My girlfriend had a Jeep Grand Cherokee and the engine literally burst into flames at 18k miles, they had to give her an entirely new vehicle which also turned out to be garbage, she dumped it and got a '06 Camry and hasn't had an issue since.

All I am saying is that this problem is not exclusive to Toyota.
Cars these days, with all their electronics and subsystems with more subsystems are infinitely more complex than 20 years ago, so there's more stuff that can go wrong.

SoDiezl350

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There is nothing built into the car that would cause it to stall while moving in neutral. I would say that your car stalled in a situation where it shouldn't have. Whether this is a result of a faulty valve spring is unclear.

Kurtz

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FYI-

2006 Escape was recalled for:
Possible driveshaft fracture
then recalled again for a wiper motor problem


2004 Durango recalled for:
Electric overloads in instrument panel causing fires
then recalled again for frozen throttle cable
then recalled again for battery cable short causing fires


1998 Ranger recalled for:
Fuel line leak
then recalled again for cruise control switch fires
then recalled again for different cruise control issue with cable



So I think the problem might be you don't update your address with the dealer enough or something, since at least half your vehicles have had multiple recalls... (often for FAR worse problems than any the 2IS has had... like catching on fire while parked and off (the ranger) or driveshaft failing while in use (escape)... or throttle cable becoming stuck wide open (durango in 04).

MDOTM

The lesson learn is that we all should just walk to where we are going...

benzo555

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recalls doesn't really bother me at all. Gives me a chance to drive different loaners and test them out.

quick123

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LOL....I remember when the recalls first came out, I had some idiot saying that he was going to trade his Toyota in and get another vehicle that did not have any recalls...I told him that Nike and Reebok make a great product

Kurtz

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Even then!

Nike recalls- (there've been others, here's a couple)
http://www.soccercleats101.com/2009/...apor-superfly/

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml04/04200.html

Reebok-

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml04/04217.html

MBTC

Thanks for that. I was going to suggest to the owner of those vehicles that if there were no recalls it was either because the dealership didn't have current address info, or he wasn't following the news, or the manufacturer just wasn't honest. It would scare the goo out of me if I owned a vehicle that had no recalls, because it could only mean that either there is a major political coverup or a perfect storm brewing.

I just didn't say all that because I was too tired (and lazy at the time) to do the research myself, which you did, so kudos.

15951

I was outside the VIN range or wasn't otherwise affected by some of the recalls, and the rest must have occurred after I got rid of the vehicle(s). Seeing that list, it's pretty surprising to me, but that's the case. Dealers had my address, etc. For example, the Ranger I had didn't have cruise control, so I was unaffected.

Anyway, I do understand the point, and from the looks of the recall info provided I should probably update my bucket list and get moving!!

quick123

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LOL!!!!!!!

That has my face hurting that is so funny! Guess we are all screwed no matter what we do

javyLSU

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I still love my IS350.

Brakes: Never had any problems, changed by pads a few times before going BBK.
Fuel Rails: Never had any leaks, had it done as a preventative measure.
Seat belts: Never had any problems, had it done as a preventative measure.
Steering: Never had any problems, had it done as a preventative measure.
Gas pedals: There is no problem if you know how to install a floor mat properly, never had this done.

Noticing a pattern here? In my eye, there's a difference between being proactive for consumers and fixing things that keep breaking on my car. I may have had an exceptional experience, but I can honestly say I've never had anything break on my car that I haven't damaged myself. I'm no Lexus fanboy - if something is wrong, they need to fix it - but I still remain a strong believer in Lexus quality.

Javier

IS-SV

I'm not worried about it, Lexus recalls for me have been handled smoothly and at no cost to me so far.

Stun350

No problem here with my 08 IS350. Talked to customer support yesterday evening and they told me I would be contacted as soon as the recall is issued.

Raider#81

Sounds like my car. I noticed around 47-48k my car would idle real low when I would pull up and stop at a light. Usually occurrs when coming off a freeway. Also I notice the idle lowers when turing into driveways. Feels like the car is going to stall and sometimes the traction controll lights come on?