BounceNY

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Is that specifically part of the campaign (filling up the tank)?

tromly

You're correct about the RX being assembled in Canada

Kurtz

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*sigh*

The original poster is asking about the recent TOYOTA gas pedal recall.

Which does not impact Lexus vehicles. At all. Because Lexus cars are built in Japan, and the problem vehicles are built in the US.


What you are talking about is the floor mat recall, which is a couple months old at this point, and does impact Lexus vehicles. (and which I personally plan to refuse to let them do to my car, because I'm not an idiot who uses the wrong floor mats in the first place)

Koz

It's been reported that the previous person who had that loaner complained the gas peddle was sticking. Hmm, doesn’t sound like a mat to me!

Koz

Kurtz

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No, it has not been reported that way.

It has been reported that the previous loaner driver had the same problem. with the floormat

http://www.10news.com/news/21869331/detail.html



Again, the only Lexus problem has been that an idiot put the wrong floormat in the car. Don't be an idiot and you won't have a problem-

jkeifer3

Bummer..... no more torque-stopping, power-braking, of the car to effect a nice launch.....

Kurtz

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It's your car, you can simply not let them apply the program update.

Evitzee

There is some confusion here. The IS 'fix' is a shorter gas pedal which will increase the clearance from the bottom of the pedal to the floor. The IS fix does not entail recontouring the floor pan underneath the pedal (that is done for the ES models). They will also program the electronics so if you press the accelerator and the brake at the same time the brakes take precedence. The engine will NOT shut off, that would inject a very dangerous situation into the driving experience. You often have to use brake and accelerator at the same time, such as taking off on a steep incline or if you are driving in snow and ice where you have to feather brake and throttle at the same time to maintain control. You don't want the engine turning off in these sorts of situations.

It is your car and you can elect to do this fix or not. There is already over 3" of clearance from the bottom of the pedal to the floor, and if you use only the standard carpetted mats and if they are clipped in correctly there is no issue. None, zip. Remember, no Japanese vehicle is included in the sticky accelerator problem as only pedals made by CTS in the USA have this problem. In my opinion the floor mat recall was ill advised and premature and was an overreaction to an unfortunate accident in which the wrong mats were put in the wrong car. In my view it is unnecessary. I don't visit my dealer very often but when I do I will tell them in no uncertain terms that I elect to NOT have this recall performed.

CRB

There is no Lexus involved in the recall...yet. I was reading a story in the San Jose Mercury News earlier this week about an off duty C.H.P. officer driving an ES350 that had an "unintended acceleration" incident that resulted in the deaths of him and his entire family. Time will tell where this story ends. Obviously, it in Toyota's interest to say, and wisely they are saying exactly this, that it is related to "part x" from "supplier Y" and we have a "fix", even if they really don't. The media circus has roped the Prius this week so there is no telling what will be happening going forward. The real problem for Toyota is the constant media drumbeat, soon to be abetted by the idiots in Washington having hearings, that creates a panic in the public about an almost statistically insignificant small number of problems in millions of cars produced.

Kurtz

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Time already told.

That story was the cause for the floormat recall a couple months ago.

Like we've explained at least 3 times already in this very thread that you apparently didn't bother reading before posting.

Here's the quote on that accident, yet again:



this has nothing to do with the current toyota gas pedal recall.

CRB

Fox News just reported that "some Lexus models" use the same accelerator as the Prius, which isn't part of the recall but has had an "NHTSA probe" related to brakes started. This whole thing isn't about the facts of what caused the incidents but about public perception. Audi was almost destroyed in the United States from a media witch hunt around a handful of poorly documented incidents. The Mercury News story said nothing about mat trapping being the cause that I saw, but they did have a full transcript of the 911 call that the guy was making at impact.

The "story" I referred to is the media conflating separate brake-related problems in Toyota-brand products to crank up the public heat on Toyota not the true cause of any one specific brake related incident.

xuningshen

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i'm not getting any of this **** "fixed" on my car.

floor mat "recall" is for dumbasses who don't know jack.

Pedal "fix"? shouldn't be a problem since floor mats are secured,

computer fix? hell no. if somehow my car starts going places i'll push teh start button for 3 seconds to turn off the car, brakes will still apply in full force just have to be more forceful on the petal

honestly the cases on the unstoppable acceleration are really limited.

Kurtz

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Putting it in neutral would be a lot better plan, no worries about losing any power assist on brakes or steering that way.

IS-SV

I see you also have the IS350 w/sport package and sports pedals as equipped. Have you had the "fix" done yet? If so what's your new pedal like?

Evitzee

I don't believe any IS's have been fixed yet as I don't think they have the pedals ready. I think the IS is at the back of the line of the other floormat related models. In any event I will not be having this recall done. It is not necessary, imo.