This vehicle was purchased as a certified pre-owned Lexus with 9,800 miles.
Within 7 days of owning this car, it was returned to the service dept. to adress a front wheel shake at approx. 55 MPH and up.
After 5 visits, the car has had the wheels balanced twice, two alignments, had the steering mechanism re-calibrated, had the front brakes disks resurfaced, had the front brake disks replaced, and 4 new tires installed.
Another quirk has just reared its ugly head in which the throttle sticks in the full-open position causing two very frightening experiences. The vehicle continued to accelerate at full rate for 2-3 seconds until the fly-by-wire throttle reset itself.
Not much of an issue on the freeway, but, both times this happened was in city driving conditions and one nearly resulted in an accident.
I love the body style, but, I have reservations about the overall intergrity of the vehicle.
After a lack of response from Lexus Corporate, I decided to file two formal complaints on the NHTSA web site as there are other consumers with identical problems listed there.
This happened to me today. The car accelerated in spite of foot on the break. the car screeched forwards and hit the wall my garage. It is scary let me tell you. I hope no body gets hurt because of this type of problem. I hope Lexus company will address this problem promptly.
Ken satya.
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