S54toIS350

Strange thing happend the morning coming to work. As I was parking in the parking lot, I backed up then put the car in drive, and the car STALLED!

At first I didn't know what happened other than giving it gas and it would'nt go. Being that was car was so quite It took me a while to realize that the tach was at 0 and the check engine light was on

So I put the car in drive and started it back up. Weird... has this stalling problem ever happend to anyone before?

ruso82

I would get this checked out ASAP
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=207870

gshb

I wouldnt worry too much. Same thing happened to me while I was backing up. I guess I put it in drive too fast while I was still moving and so the car stalled. I make it a habit of coming to a complete stop before switching to drive.

TripleL

I would check out the thread above.

It might be nothing, but to be on the safe side you might want to schedule a quick trip to the dealer.

TripleL

gsrthomas

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I'm wondering if the Toyota Avalon is having this "fuel in oil" phenomenon. It has almost identical engines.

Does anyone know if this is just a IS isolated case?

There soon to be many toyota's/lexuses that will use the 3.5L engine.

I hope this problem doesnt get worse.

storm

The Avalon, along with the new Camry, RX, and ES are using a different version of the engine I believe. No direct injection technology on those version of the engines.

If I remember the engine codes correct the 3.5L is the 3GR-FE for the regular versions and 3GR-FSE for the Direct Injection variants used by the IS.

al503

Occam's Razor: maybe you just had some water in the tank or got some bad gas?

Try a different station. If it keeps happening, you might have a bigger issue.

BLKIS250TN

I took mine ( is250) to the shop for 5k oil change and they found gas mixed in the oil. My car has stalled about 4-5 times. Every time it has been at he first start up. Well the tech called Lexus and said they are working on a cpu update to fix this. If I was you get it in the shop so they can see how wide spreed this is. It will help us all out in the end.

pocky

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Just wanted to make a correction.

The new '07 Camry & ES uses the 2GR-FE, while the IS350 uses the 2GR-FSE.

The 3GR family engines belong on the Crown, Mark X and GS cars.

menech

wow let's hope this isn't too widespread. Did they say anything about possible long term damage? Or is it fairly safe as long as it gets fixed soon enough?

storm

Oops I was going by memory. You're absolutely correct.

Kailua250

I have had the stall happen to me twice. Both times were in the morning after the car wasn't driven the previous day. I back out of the driveway and come to a stop. Then when I put it in drive , the idle drops low for a second then stalls. It was kind of embarasing and dangerous since there was a truck coming down the road that had to stop for me to restart.
I am going to have my 5k maintenence done within the next two or thre weeks. I am going to bring it up then. Hopefully some more information will be available by then.
Sorry to hear this is somewhat common.
By the way, I have a 250

ra1n

Good God, is there ANYONE who HASN'T STALLED YET? All these posts about how everyone's had stalls are making me anxious and worried. Could stalling lead to further complications? I have yet to wait for my 250 to arrive.

jcreech

dont worry...Im one on this forum who was told that my car will start breaking down after 40k bc i didnt "break in" my car as the manual said. Mine hasnt stalled. Trust me, you will love your 250

zomg!11

tell me about it! i was almost ready to cancel! no, i'm just joking, i wasn't. i love the car too much.

i just hope mine doesn't stall when i get it. someone should start a poll on if their car stalled since they received it.