Toyota recalls LS, other models for valve spring replacement
07-01-10, 09:36 AM
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Acceleration issues with 08 LS460
Hey Guys,
I'm a newbie to this forum, am amazed at how much info there is here.
So i have a 2008 LS460 (manufactured 12/2007). I bought it CPO at 9K miles in 2009 May. Have been having issues with the acceleration and gear shifting intermittently. I brought it into the dealer last year, and they performed a TSIB on it (L-SB-0033-08 Rev1: 07-08 LS 460: Hesitation on Acceleration) and that seemed to fix the problem, until recently. Since my last oil change last week, the issue i mentioned is back again, but has gotten worse.
The car is normally fine, drives well, but when this issue crops up, it behaves as though the transmission is totally fouled up. When depressing the accelerator, the gears don't shift right, i can be travelling at 30mph and trying to accelerate, i floor the accelerator, but nothing happens, and all of a sudden sometimes if there is a reaction, the RPM goes to 3500, but the car is still not speeding up (i.e. at 30+ mph). The car jerks pretty badly every time this occurs as well. The biggest frustration in my mind was the fact that after my 20K oil change last week, i was happily driving home (20+ miles away), and the car started acting up like how i've described, only this is worse than i've ever experienced in previous times. I brought it back to the dealer the very next morning, the car was sputtering and jerking all the way there, but 5 miles from the dealership, it started acting normally again, and a short test drive at the dealership didn't produce the issue. The tech asked me to take it back (without even performing any check on it), and i was pretty frustrated, 'cos i knew it was going to happen again. And with my luck, just as i was nearing my home (about 4 miles out), there it went again, jerking and not changing gears right, the rpms going up and down and the car not accelarating.
There's also another annoying item that i have had since the day i bought the car. It sounds like the engine has this very discernable clackety-clacking noise (especially noticeable at idle or when moving slowly on a quiet road, almost as if it's an old engine (my 2005 toyota seqouia engine sounds more refined at idle). I've never been happy with that, have told every service rep about it each time i bring it in, but all of them insist it's a nature of the lexus LS engine after a year or more.
I'm just wondering if anyone else has faced this type of issue, and whether it could be to do with this latest recall on faulty valve springs.
Appreciate any comments. Thank You.
I'm a newbie to this forum, am amazed at how much info there is here.
So i have a 2008 LS460 (manufactured 12/2007). I bought it CPO at 9K miles in 2009 May. Have been having issues with the acceleration and gear shifting intermittently. I brought it into the dealer last year, and they performed a TSIB on it (L-SB-0033-08 Rev1: 07-08 LS 460: Hesitation on Acceleration) and that seemed to fix the problem, until recently. Since my last oil change last week, the issue i mentioned is back again, but has gotten worse.
The car is normally fine, drives well, but when this issue crops up, it behaves as though the transmission is totally fouled up. When depressing the accelerator, the gears don't shift right, i can be travelling at 30mph and trying to accelerate, i floor the accelerator, but nothing happens, and all of a sudden sometimes if there is a reaction, the RPM goes to 3500, but the car is still not speeding up (i.e. at 30+ mph). The car jerks pretty badly every time this occurs as well. The biggest frustration in my mind was the fact that after my 20K oil change last week, i was happily driving home (20+ miles away), and the car started acting up like how i've described, only this is worse than i've ever experienced in previous times. I brought it back to the dealer the very next morning, the car was sputtering and jerking all the way there, but 5 miles from the dealership, it started acting normally again, and a short test drive at the dealership didn't produce the issue. The tech asked me to take it back (without even performing any check on it), and i was pretty frustrated, 'cos i knew it was going to happen again. And with my luck, just as i was nearing my home (about 4 miles out), there it went again, jerking and not changing gears right, the rpms going up and down and the car not accelarating.
There's also another annoying item that i have had since the day i bought the car. It sounds like the engine has this very discernable clackety-clacking noise (especially noticeable at idle or when moving slowly on a quiet road, almost as if it's an old engine (my 2005 toyota seqouia engine sounds more refined at idle). I've never been happy with that, have told every service rep about it each time i bring it in, but all of them insist it's a nature of the lexus LS engine after a year or more.
I'm just wondering if anyone else has faced this type of issue, and whether it could be to do with this latest recall on faulty valve springs.
Appreciate any comments. Thank You.
Last edited by kalbert24; 07-01-10 at 11:39 AM.
07-01-10, 12:10 PM
#18
I see people asking about the location of their manufacturing date, but I haven't seen anything that stated the true date range of the vehicles this pertains to. Am I missing something?
07-01-10, 12:22 PM
#19
07-01-10, 02:11 PM
#21
I got rid of my LS460 last week (something more family friendly, with another child on the way) -- the dealer called today and said "good move, we're going to have this for a while!"
I don't think it's the fact that Toyota has issues that bothers me... it's the incredibly shady way they deal with things that puts me off.
Makes you wonder...
I don't think it's the fact that Toyota has issues that bothers me... it's the incredibly shady way they deal with things that puts me off.
Makes you wonder...
07-01-10, 05:35 PM
#22
http://content.usatoday.com/communit...ling-problem/1
so for sure it's coming, just need to wait and see what year specifically, and whether it's all cars or only specific vin
UPDATE 8:25 p.m. ET: Toyota Motor just said in Tokyo that it will recall 270,000 vehicles worldwide next Monday to fix engines with a valve spring problem that could cause them to stall. Spokesman Paul Nolasco said said vehicles include seven models (years so far unspecified) of luxury Lexus sedans and Japan's popular Crown. Of the 270,000 vehicles, some 137,000 were sold in the U.S. Nolasco said Toyota will inform Japan's transport ministry of a recall of 90,000 vehicles there on Monday. The U.S. recall could be announced as early as today.
07-02-10, 10:55 AM
#27
I don't seem to be able to identify any date codes on my '08's yellow/white stickers. They look pretty generic, tire pressure, don't stick your fingers in a closing door, etc., then on the door itself is a black VIN sticker.
Whit
07-02-10, 11:10 AM
#28
07-02-10, 02:06 PM
#29
Lexus Test Driver
http://money.cnn.com/2010/07/01/auto...lems/index.htm
CNN's report on the issue.
I'm beginning to think the story they gave me about the "defective robot" was bunk.
I'll guarantee you, if this happens to your car, you WILL know it ... and you'll have to either limp to a dealer or get the car trucked. I'm glad it didn't happen to me while we were out in the boonies on a trip!
The good part is that it shouldn't take 19 days to fix it like it did mine ... the techs will undoubtedly get some practice and some parts and be able to do it pretty quickly.
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CNN's report on the issue.
I'm beginning to think the story they gave me about the "defective robot" was bunk.
I'll guarantee you, if this happens to your car, you WILL know it ... and you'll have to either limp to a dealer or get the car trucked. I'm glad it didn't happen to me while we were out in the boonies on a trip!
The good part is that it shouldn't take 19 days to fix it like it did mine ... the techs will undoubtedly get some practice and some parts and be able to do it pretty quickly.
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