2005 Lexus GX

Routine

Owners filed 3 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the structure › body. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Unknown or Other1
000
Tires1
000
Structure › Body1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Unknown or Other
Filed Dec 29, 2023CA

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.

Tires
Filed Jun 28, 2022WA

After 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.

Structure › Body
Filed Sep 17, 2021MD

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
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20261000Routine
202513200Routine
202420400Routine
20236000Routine
20225000Routine
20212000Routine
20204000Routine
20198000Routine
20182000Routine
20176000Routine
20163000Routine
20153010Routine
201415000Routine
201310000Routine
20123000Routine
201111000Routine
20107000Routine
20090100Routine
20082000Routine
200712000Routine
200610000Routine
2005 — this page3000Routine
200420000Routine
20035000Routine

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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.