2016 Lexus IS

Routine

Owners filed 2 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the fuel/propulsion system. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Fuel/Propulsion System2
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Fuel/Propulsion System
Filed Mar 23, 2026AR

When I start my car, every once in a while it acts as if it is not getting enough gas and lags. In the colder months it seems to do this more often and sometimes will not start. When the weather is warmer it will sporadically do this. I have put a new battery in thinking it was weak and this could be the cause for it to not want to start, but it has done this at least 5 times within the month that the battery was replaced. My VIN is not showing a recall for the fuel pump like the other 2016 IS200t models, but I’m afraid that this is the recall problem. What should I do if my mechanic says it is the fuel pump? Will it get replaced under the recall?

Fuel/Propulsion System
Filed Aug 4, 2024FL

Car keeps randomly dying out while driving sometimes it comes back on sometimes It has to pull over and start the car again has a lean code pretty sure its the fuel pump noticed they have a recall on other is200t for fuel pump issues believe mine should Definitely been part of the recall it's very dangerous when it dies on the highway

2 of 2 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2006
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20261000Routine
20251000Routine
20241000Routine
20235000Routine
20224100Routine
20212000Routine
20206000Routine
20192000Routine
20183000Routine
201710000Routine
2016 — this page2000Routine
20159000Routine
201412000Routine
20139000Routine
201218000Routine
201115000Routine
201040100Routine
200940200Routine
2008102300Routine
2007122301Fatalities reported
2006143750Routine
200512100Routine
200410100Routine
200312100Routine
200212100Routine
20011100Routine
20000100Routine
19991100Routine
19980100Routine

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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.