After a year plus with my ES 350 and 10,500 miles, I’ve nothing to report. No electrical or mechanical gremlins, no creaks in the panoramic moon roof, beyond what I expected in terms of mpg as a highway cruiser, and I don’t find the seats uncomfortable. Not as good seats as in my old B5.5 Passat or my wife’s 2025 Pilot Touring. But not bad.

 

Happy for you. Any other interior rattles, creaks, or clicks? Every Lexus I've driven had some, particularly odd intermittent clicks from the interior panels.

 

nope.

 

What is your highway mpg? What about overall mpg and what are your city and highway %?
What oil service miles and or months have you done?
Do you plan to keep long term?

 

Glad to hear this from you. However after 1 year this month and 5100 miles, I continue to hear the twirling noise in the engine, it has gotten louder and sounds like low drumming noise. I also hear low rumling/banging noise sounds like from under the car as well as wind noise and crackling noise when going up an incline. Dealership says it's normal and they cannot duplicate the crackling sound. The crackling was heard very often while in the cold, cold weather, but now that it is warmer in WI, the crackling sound was not heard as they indicate. I guess I have to wait until winter returns to take it back for that. Soooooo, my question to you is, do you hear any funny sound from your engine while idling? Is this really the way the engine supposed to sound in a new car????