I stumbled across this story. Basically theirs been 432 reports of Lexus' (including IS250) suddenly accelerating on its own . Anybody hear of this before or is this site bs?

http://autocoverup.com/2009/04/06/le...-acceleration/

 

is this for real??

 

wow... what a crazy story... hope that never happens to me... scary

 

improperly installed floormat wtf? damn hope this doesn't happen to me... scary.

 

wuttt?!?!..well at least my e-brake is a handle with the 6-speed MT..ill be preparing for the worst n check my floor mats..floor mats..r they on crak LOL

 

isn't this old news? like when there was the seatbelt recall?

 

dam thas freaky... anyone on here with that has had anythin like this happen????

 

they still dunno whats going on? like can't they find out what cause it? this is so uncool man.....

 

yeah after 400+ complaints u'd think they would've found something besides "the floor mat was installed wrong..."

 

thats scary. what about MT? i hope the clutch disengages at least.

 

LOL - who would've thought that we would hear the words "sudden acceleration" and "IS250" in the same sentence?

 

This guy was already banned from Lexus Owners Club. It's crap.

 

It's an unbelievable story, literally. Uncontrolled acceleration *and* no brakes at the same time? The odds of that happening? Maybe 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 to 1. IOW, Never, much less more than 400 cars. Lexus did in fact have serious issues with improperly installed All Weather Mats. The gas pedal would get stuck on them. However, the brakes *never* failed. How do you improperly install a floor mat? Your supposed to remove the carpeted floor mats, first. Customers were installing the All Weather Mats on top of the carpeted ones, creating problems.
Too many things don't add up in that guys story. My guess? Driver error.

 

The guy blows his credibility when he says the gas pedal was "sucked to the floor". That might be possible in an older generation of vehicle with a mechanical throttle linkage, but on the 2IS the accelerator pedal is attached to a module containing a spring and pair of potentiometers, electrically connected to the engine computer. See below. There is simply no way that a software glitch could move the pedal. You can also see in the photo how close the pedal is to the transmission hump, particularly in the AWD version of the IS250. A stuck pedal due to an improperly installed mat is a very logical explanation for what happened.

 

From one of the stories, above.

"the car wouldnt slow down and instead accelerated to 105 mph. All I could do was keep changing lanes to avoid hitting vehicles in front while having my emergency signal and continuous hitting my honks. I somehow managed to move over to the shoulder without hitting any cars but the vehicle was still moving at 100+ mph. Finally my husband had to force the gear box to park and I applied the emergency parking brake before the vehicle finally started to slow down and eventually stopped near exit #389. My car has traveled for about 3.5 miles at over 100 mph and there were some very close calls where I could have hit vehicles at high speed seriously injuring someone and myself."

Amazing!!! 100+ mph on the shoulder, full brake force, husband shoves car into park, wife slams parking brake to the floor!!

LOL!! And she lived to tell about it?

Man, some of the stories people will tell to get out of liability. BTW, you'll find these stories for every make and model of car in existence. It's not a car problem, it's a driver problem.
The floor mat issue with Lexus has been documented and the car never actually accelerated, the throttle just got stuck.