Lexus has issued the list of vehicles that will be covered by an upcoming valve spring recall on the company's 3.5-liter V6 (north-south version only) and 4.6-liter V8 engines. The 5.0-liter V8 is also included, but only the version in the LS 600h. Yamaha builds the 5.0-liter in the IS-F and so a different valve spring supplier is used, Toyota's Bill Kwong told us. Toyota says it has notified NHTSA of its intent to file a Defect Investigation Report on July 5.
The recall will cover 138,000 cars in the U.S. Lexus estimates there's a 0.2 percent chance that any of these vehicles will actually experience a problem. Yes. That statistic is in the press release.
| Model | Model Year |
| GS 350 | 2007 |
| 2008 | |
| GS 450h | 2007 |
| 2008 | |
| GS 460 | 2008 |
| IS 350 | 2006 |
| 2007 | |
| 2008 | |
| LS 460 | 2007 |
| 2008 | |
| LS 460 L | 2007 |
| 2008 | |
| LS 600h L | 2008 |
firstwagon says:
01:42 PM, 07/ 2/10
Toyota isn't taking any chances these days.
desmolicious says:
04:04 PM, 07/ 2/10
That .2% thing is a nice spin by Toyota. It still means, if you believe that it is only .2%, that 276 cars sold may have sudden engine failures while being driven.
Not a good time if you owned one of the 276 cars and were trying to merge onto a freeway.
Of course they needed to do a recall.
At least all these cars have properly functioning fuel tanks (unlike that other Lexus recall from a couple of days ago) so if you get hit from behind when your motor quits, gas stays in the gas tank.
cr_driver says:
04:26 PM, 07/ 2/10
Lesson learned?
haub says:
05:31 PM, 07/ 2/10
This is odd considering my friends IS250 had its valvesprings replaced due to a CEL and misfires - all under warranty and through a TSB from Toyota. Not a recall.
ne1butu2 says:
06:02 PM, 07/ 2/10
Toyota is dealing with a lot of different .02 percent problems lately. With all the various serious defect that they're experiencing, the odds are actually quite high that you'll experience one of them.
hondacura4 says:
10:31 AM, 07/ 5/10
At least Lexus/Toyota is doing a recall unlike Mercedes and it's 1.8L Kompressor I4 (C230#. My best friends 2005 C230 Kompressor Sport 6MT had to have all of its valve springs replaced #under warranty) and the tech stated that it was a known issue yet only involved 2004/2005 C230s.
desmolicious says:
08:51 AM, 07/ 6/10
In actuality it was a design flaw, not contamination that was the root of the problem.
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