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I have the electric folding third row seats. When they are about midway while folding down, each makes a loud popping noise. Perhaps this is by design but it sure sounds wrong to me. Anyone else have this pop, or discover that it is normal or by design? Doesn't inspire confidence or quality to me. Thanks.
I have the electric folding third row seats. When they are about midway while folding down, each makes a loud popping noise. Perhaps this is by design but it sure sounds wrong to me. Anyone else have this pop, or discover that it is normal or by design? Doesn't inspire confidence or quality to me. Thanks.
I have the same issue and have been thinking of taking my TX to the dealer to have it checked. It sounds like something is binding and then snaps. I keep the third row down most of the time as I don't haul a lot of people, but do carry a good amount of stuff in the cargo area.
Mine did the same thing. There is a plastic part glued to the bottom of the seat back cover. You can lift the cover off by pulling on it releasing it from the Velcro. That plastic piece of bent at all will catch when you put down the seat and make a popping sound as it rips off the backing.
The dealer wanted to glue it back in but instead we are waiting for the seat back repair part. It has been 6 months and no part yet.
I live with it by bending it straight and it doesn’t catch.
See attached pics.
Mine looks ok. The popping seems to come from below that flap, from the hinge mechanism. Really can't seem to see what that plastic piece even does. Weird.
My Lexus dealership put in a TAS case on the popping noise. Not sure if these ever get replies back from corporate but the service rep said other customers have asked about the noise too. He agreed it is not a "Lexus-like" sound. I'm glad I formally asked for a service check as if these seats fail sometime soon, at least I know, they know, it has been happening from day 1.
My Lexus dealership put in a TAS case on the popping noise. Not sure if these ever get replies back from corporate but the service rep said other customers have asked about the noise too. He agreed it is not a "Lexus-like" sound. I'm glad I formally asked for a service check as if these seats fail sometime soon, at least I know, they know, it has been happening from day 1.
I bought my TX 350 on 6/14 (just before the airbag recall). My seats have popped since day 1. Like you, I intend to bring this to the attention of Lexus, so that if and when the part fails, I will have informed them well prior. By the way, my wife had a problem with a rattle on her brand new 2008 RX (once upon a time). After dismantling the front end, the service team determined that two of the washers used in the front end had rough surfaces that should have been smoothed out. Once they smoothed them out, the rattle was gone - for good. We were told that they used our case to fix the manufacturing problem (we don't know if that is really the case). I guess the moral of the story is that it is good to say something.
2025 Lexus TX 500h. The third row makes loud popping noise when folding down and it is NOT related to the head rest collapsing. May be by design but it does sound more dysfunctional than functional. I’m new to the Lexus club, is there a place I can report this to Lexus in case it eventually fails?
MY 550h+ makes this same popping sound. And is definitely not the headrests which drop down after this popping sound. I assumed it was just the way it is. And since so many seem to hear the same thing, seems likely that it is just the way it is.
Third row seat popping during mid-fold?
