NuwenKhanh

Hello fellas, i'm currently in the market for a 2015 GS 350. I wondering if ere any major problem regard that year model. Thank you.

gs350lex

Nothing mechanically really. However i do remember others complaining about some issue with the door lock actuators ( i never experienced this and my car is 4 years old now as of today).

Also there was some other issues in terms of rattles on the interior of the car (sunroof rattle which a new seal fixes, window switch panel rattle, vent rattles and for some people (the rear sunshade would rattle)). Other then that i can't think of any other issues and not everyone experienced those rattles.

Good luck on your search!

Cwang

Nothing serious OP, no Lexus GS is going to grenade itself. Mine came with a fair few more problems than the badge suggested but they are not biggies. What to check for based on my experience:

Check the:
bendy headlights work(very exy to replace if problematic)
steering wheel doesn't have a church mouse inside it (mine does but I don't think anyone is going to die)
service history, doesn't matter where.
if overly concerned about cosmetics(I'm not) check under the car for the condition of the plastic trays. That will tell you the life story of the car
Water leaks\mould under the passenger carpet.

gs350lex

Please expand on the church mouse im dying to know lmao

And i think what he said OP this about covers it. Can't really think of anything else that me or others I know that have owned this car have really experienced outside of this.

LEP XEP

Only concern I had is the high pitch humping noise when you accelerating. I researched in this forum it pointed to the alternator. I took it to my stealership and they replaced it under warranty.

er34

That high pitch hum is a Japanese reminder to push the pedal a little harder. Once you get over 3k rpm, you won't hear/care about a thing.

Cwang

Maybe there's 2 mice in the steering wheel....hehe


There's a high pitched squeal whenever I turn the wheel. I think that it's a warped clock spring housing or something? I'm sure it'll cost thousands to fix and it doesn't seem to be getting any worse.

thallium

Yes, it's the clock spring. My 2013 has it but it's only really noticeable maneuvering at parking lot speeds spinning the wheel a lot with stereo off. I thought it would drive me bonkers but I hardly ever notice it. While actually replacing the clock spring is easy to moderately difficult a local dealership quoted me about $900.00 for the part. Looking online I see them at bout $500.00 and oddly one for the f-sport which was about half of that. Anyway, I've learned to live with it.

Also, what others have said. Noisy sunroof due to bad seal which is about $50.00 and is user changeable though I haven't done mine yet. An intermittent rattle on the passenger side dash which requires a fair amount of dash & glove box removal to inspect - doesn't bother me enough to tear into it yet. If you have these problems there are good threads in this forum that help with doing these.

On the swiveling headlights, I don't have a use for them as I don't do any driving on windy roads so I turned them off with the button way down under the dash in the driver foot well. So if you look at one and don't think they're working somebody might have turned them off. There are normally two buttons down there. The one on the left is to reset the tire pressure monitors and the one on the right is the AFS (adaptive front lighting system - or somthing like that) button.

eddie420

Ah, the Japanese and their manners!

charley95

You need to fly out to the upper left coast and buy JDR76"s old 15 GS he just traded in. 1 owner that was really taken care of.

JDR76