Manufacture paint failure of the “blizzard pearl white” color. Existing recall for the 2005 GX 470 models needs to be extended to include more vins experiencing peeling paint on the roof, hood and doors.
2005 Lexus GX
Owners filed 3 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the structure › body. No safety recall has been issued.
| Component | Reports | Crashes | Fires | Injuries | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown or Other | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tires | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Structure › Body | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What owners reported
Newest filingsAfter just 6000 miles, all 4 of my tires have significant cracking on most of the blocks & sipes. I've already lose a few small sections of the blocks where these cracks have reached the tread. No punctures or blowouts, but I wonder how long they will be safe. Kenda claim all damage is caused by stone drilling as a result of driving dirt roads (I've done 3-400 miles on gravel roads) and refuse to uphold their warrantee, from my research this can't be damage due to stone drilling.
Bought the vehicle new and has always been maintained by a dealer and mostly garage kept. We took it in to a local garage owner for air conditioning repair and he says we have a bigger problem and do we want to spend the money. The frame under the car is rusted through to the point of possibly snapping in half. We climbed under the car to confirm and took pictures. No warning, no recall and never a word from a dealer. I contacted Lexus and all they would say is there are no recalls for this vehicle and because of its age nothing and no compensation is required. KBB says the vehicle is worth approximately $10,000 but the fact is that it’s not saleable. In good conscience we couldn’t sell this vehicle to anyone! Toyota had a recall on the same frame, why was there none on this vehicle?
3 of 3 complaints, reproduced as filed.
Across model years
Worst on record: 2024| Year | Complaints | Recalls | Fires | Deaths | Assessment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2025 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2024 | 20 | 4 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2023 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2022 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2020 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2019 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2017 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2016 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2015 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Routine |
| 2014 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2013 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2012 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2011 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2010 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2008 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2007 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2006 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2005 — this page | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2004 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
| 2003 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Routine |
Reading this record
No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.
Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.
Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.