Major help needed!
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Major help needed!
I can't believe this happened to me, but I was lucky enough that this happened at night. I'm driving home from work around 10:15pm and driving around 45mph; I switch my car from the manual mode to automatic and all of a sudden my car skids 40 feet and just stops. No lights on the dash, just completely stops and locks up the rear tires. I am in the middle of the road at this point and try to restart the car and put it into drive and the car just jolts forward and makes a grinding noise. I was still in shock at the moment, and a cop pulls behind me and asks me what is going on and I tell him the situation. He says he needs to call a tow truck to move the car. I brought it home and now I don't know what to do. The car is a lexus 2007 gs350 awd with about 104k miles, I don't think the car should just stop while driving 45 mph and come to a skidding stop. If anyone can tell me what I should do, should I call lexus corporate, or my dealership. I'm the second owner on the car. I can't drive the car anywhere so I have to tow it wherever I take it. So please if anyone can help me.
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I just looked at the recall list for our lexus, and the variable valve timing control device has been recalled"it says that the car can suddenly stop while driving". Do you think this could affect it?
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I doubt that. The car locking is exactly what ibidu said. The AWD system may have seized, because you failed to do your scheduled maintanence. Transmission fluid should be changed every 90k mi, and your rear diff fluid needs to be changed every 30k.
You're trans sounds like it is toast. Go to a tranny shop first not the dealer. Most dealer's won't repair tranny just replace. See what the experts can do first using your existing tranny.
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I still haven't changed my rear diff fluid. I changed my tranny fluid at 45K miles.
At 94K miles, I still debate if I need to change my rear diff fluid.
To the OP, I would register your car with lexus.com to see what service history your car has.
Was the car well maintained before you bought it?
How long did your car stay in manual mode at 45 mph?
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Not to sure about the diff every 30K. I took mine in to have it changed at 30K and the dealer looked at me like I was crazy. He said they normally dont service them until 60k however inspected the fluid anyway just to be nice. Said it was still clean and no need to change it
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Even so, very unlikely that transmission will lock up because someone is 10k past changing fluids. Seems like something else happened or contributed to this.
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