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Old 01-03-16, 09:42 AM
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Wife was driving her Lexus 2010 when she got the following warnings and took a picture (see below). It was freezing outside so that may have had something to do with this.

Drove car in morning to appointment (5 miles) no problem. Let sit for 2 hours (freezing weather). Drove back and encountered the warning below: Check AWD System, check engine light and traction control light. Roads were fine with no snow/ice. I checked code on car and it called out Cylinder 5 misfire. She encountered loss of power going up hill.

I cleared code and checked/replace front bank of plugs (Cylinders 2, 4, 6) with Denso #3426 (FK20HR11) - too difficult to replace others. Spark plugs looked decent minus some oil/gas on threads of plugs similar to what I saw on another posting that went through process of changing plugs. Car drove fine after (next 20 miles). We'll observe from here but anyone encounter something similar have any ideas?



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Old 01-03-16, 05:06 PM
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Lol at least your situation is still better than what my RX is going through...

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/rx-...ml#post9308378
Old 01-03-16, 05:24 PM
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There's a good chance it was just the gas cap not being tightened properly. Got the same warnings on my 2015 Highlander and that was all it was.
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The only way to find out the problem cause will be to hook the car up to a diagnostic scan tool that reads engine control modules to learn why the AWD system is malfunctioning.

The cause could be as simple as a bad sensor to as bad as the magnetic AWD component that engages the rear differential.
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I'll redo gas cap as we had filled not long ago (a few days before issue). I did check with Actron Auto Scanner and it reported Cylinder 5 misfire and that was it. I cleared it. No other codes.
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