Very rare occasion, but yesterday I opened the sunroof on my '05 GX (purchased new and now has 153K on it) and noticed the front of the sunroof frame is severely rusted - AGAIN. This was replaced by Lexus at no charge shortly after the original warranty ran out, but they obviously didn't improve the replacement product, as this is rusting exactly the same as the original one.

Kudos to Lexus for fixing the sunroof out of warranty, but shame on Lexus for realizing there is a problem, but not improving the fix. I had the same problem with the wheels. The finish on the original wheels was peeling and they were all replaced under warranty (all except the spare - I should have checked that one back then). The new wheels developed the same problem, but of course are now out of warranty.

Not looking for any solution or any sympathy, just venting. (Unless someone has an idea what it costs for a new sunroof? I'm not taking it back to Lexus at this point.) As I wrote, shame on Lexus for not actually fixing the problems with the new parts.

BTW, my GX is always garaged, except when on a road trip or during the day at the office. Also, my wife's 2000 GS300 (187K miles) has no rust on the sunroof and the original finish on the wheels is still pristine. I don't know where they went wrong with the GX.

 

I just purchased my GX at the beginning of October 2019 with 102,000 miles. I just noticed the rust probably a week after purchasing. I also purchased this vehicle from Florida, to which this specific GX had been in Miami all of its life, and the selling dealer was located in Jacksonville. When I was washing my car today, there was water intrusion that I didn’t know about until I moved the car, while sitting in the driver’s seat, water had dripped all over me. After inspection,water was unable to go down the drains because there were “rust crumbs” blocking the drain holes. I was able to successfully clean the sunroof jam and remove all of the crumbs for the water to properly drain. Since the last post in 2018, has anybody fixed their actual sunroof frame? I’ve attached some pictures on what mine currently looks like.

 

 

I have this on my 2004 ls430

 

I found biggg ol (elongated) rust bubbles on my Moonroof forward edge a few months after we bought this thing with 97.3K on the clock, my car came from southern California. I know for sure that this is Not "NORMAL" ive got two SC300s from the 1990s and as far as i can tell there is not a single spec of Rust of any sort on eather one of them, they have not been recalled, however if we can get enough people checking and finding this premature failure, Toy/Lex will have no choice but replace them.

 

There is a recall on Blizzard Pearl paint peeling my 2004 had large patches of paint just came off . I think the problem was the primer

 

Just bought an 08 and didn't notice the sunroof until after. It's badly rusted at the front of the frame. Has there yet been a recall or a fix other then buying a whole new sunroof frame, only to have it rust again?

 

Well Crap! Reading this thread made me stop and go look. I have an 08 and I have a single area of rust on the front of the frame about 2" long. Just enough to be irritating!

 

Great! More instances and still no remedy except swapping the whole thing out.

 

Just bought a Texas/Florida truck myself with not a spot of rust anywhere... Except the front of the sunroof, which is rusted horribly.

 

No sunroof rust on my 2006, but post #21 seems to be what my white blizz pearl is experiencing. Not big patches of paint coming off, but the upper door edges, just below window bottoms, are peeling, looks just like paint separating from the primer.