Seriously just get rid of your car already so we don't have to read your "German everything is the best....Lexus will start to fail" BS posts.

 

Correction: cars. I have two new Lexuses.

Everything fails in this class of luxo-tech era, Sorry you got mad-didn't mean to

 

the 3IS is a fairly new community with fairly new chassis so naturally there won't be many DIYs out. This is where brave souls will have to come in and pioneer some.

I agree though you can do the actuator yourself. i've done them on other cars. along w/ window regulators. all simple stuff

 

I'm not mad. Just tired of seeing all of your the sky is falling type posts. It's some strange feeble attempt to put your godly German vehicles up on a pedestal. Keep going though, it doesn't bother me.

 

I have double the Lexus. If anything, I have the double incentive to boast about the thing I invested in.

I call it like it is. No fanboy. I go on the BMW forums and call it like it is on there and praise Lexus. But I also praise Hyundai, or Ford, or whoever else deserves it. It's just car talk. I don't do the blind allegiance thing, sorry. I don't do sports teams or colors when it comes to objective topics. No tribal, no gangs.

If everyone can say something good about every brand, then the car community would benefit. instead of getting mad when someone says something about your team (or colors) you don't agree with.

 

You don't call it like it is. You call it as if it's fact. A few people complain about a mirror issue, and you make statements like things are heating up in terms of reliability, and the torch is being passed to Lexus (making an assumption that reliability has tanked). You know as well as I do that is not the case. There's a reason why Toyota/Lexus are always at the top of the reliability lists. Not saying that things don't fail, but to create this fear mongering that the tide has somehow turned, is just stupid.

 

I'll just say this - it would be silly to think any car would have zero issues when it gets into the vicinity of 70,000 miles. Every part, mechanical or electronic, wears over time and will fail eventually. I think the intent of this thread is not creating fear but documenting when and how the failures will occur.

 

I've come from a history of owning BMW's and Mercedes. Mercedes is more reliable than BMW, BMW is terrible. I still own one as a "toy" but I intentionally bought a Lexus for reliability and low cost maintenance. So far, Lexus has not let me down and I'm at 80K on my 2016 is200t. 80k in a BMW would require window regulators, control arm bushings, a water pump (or maybe even coolant expansion tank since the entire cooling system is plastic), probably a few check engine lights, maybe a high pressure fuel pump, intake valve carbon cleaning. My is200t has needed literally 0 repairs, just scheduled maintenance and hopefully it will continue to take me to 200k miles with minimal repairs. I do find that the tires wear out in ~15-20k miles but I was warned by that with a sticker on the window.

 

The door lock actuators are actually a pain. I haven't had any issues on my 3IS so I haven't messed with them. There is a DIY for the 2IS that I referenced years ago. I'm sure there is some slight differences but it should pretty much all be similar. This covers opening the actuator and replacing the little $10 motor inside, but you could just replace the entire unit if you don't want to open it up.

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/is-...or-repair.html

 

 

 

You can't lump all BMWs together though. Just as you can't lump all Lexuses together.

Had an 89 325i with 247,000 original miles. not a single breakdown
my 06 325ci 5 speed, 78k since new, not a single hiccup.
02 330i 160k miles when sold. not a single failure.
98 m3 130k, same thing
97 m3 205k, a failed coil pack at 200k.

water pump you do on any car.

high pressure fuel pump on early BMW 335is, i'll give you that. fixed under extended warranty campaign. but that car also pushed 300hp to the wheels. nothing any lexus of the time or any IS can do now.

that's my point in a lot of this. you start pushing the same tech and power as the big boys do, you start to see problems creep in. we're all used to our grandfather's ES300 and Lexus LS400 of the old days with low power and primitive recycled tech so we're used to perfect reliability. but in this modern era now modern cars have to have more power and tech crammed in them and we're starting to see what happens when Lexus is forced to enter this arena. We're seeing a bit of it now. Interesting to observe for sure!

 

 

You're forgetting crankshaft rod bearings on the S54 engine. Its about a $2k "maintenance" item lol. I haven't been driving mine much anymore because I'm due to replace them.