Recall Register

2005 Lexus ES: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 2005 Lexus ES. NHTSA has 49 complaints on file for this model year. 1 NHTSA investigation names this model year.

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Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 2005 Lexus ES. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 49 complaints for it.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Complaints by component

49 complaints, 61 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

  • 2005 Lexus ES
  • All 2005 vehicles
2005 Lexus ES: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component2005 ESAll 2005 vehiclesES, all yearsMentions
Power Train377117.393.523
Vehicle Speed Control229.55395.814
Air Bags131.185350.58
Exterior Lighting49.24023.43
Unknown or Other32.823.765.42
Engine and Engine Cooling32.858.111.72
Steering32.875.5142
Structure32.865.398.12
Child Seat16.40.72.31
Fuel System, Gasoline16.450.7141

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 13.

Complaints that report a crash
13
Complaints that report a fire
0
Injuries in the complaints
11
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
26 May 2017

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Complaints about the 2005 Lexus ES, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2005, with 18 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 2005 Lexus ES
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
DP05002Defect petitionVEHICLE SPEED CONTROLVehicle Speed Control5 Aug 20055 Jan 2006

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19960
  2. 19970
  3. 19990
  4. 20000
  5. 20010
  6. 20020
  7. 20030
  8. 20040
  9. 20050
  10. 20060
  11. 20070
  12. 20080
  13. 20090
  14. 20100
  15. 20110
  16. 20120
  17. 20130
  18. 20191
  19. 20201
  20. 20211
  21. 20232
  22. 20242
  23. 20251

A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 2005 Lexus ES: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/lexus/es/2005/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
15 May 2019
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing

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Questions

How many recall campaigns does the Lexus ES have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 4 recall campaigns for the Lexus ES, model years 1996 to 2025. None of them names the 2005 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 2005 Lexus ES name most often?
Power Train: 23 of 61 component mentions, or 377 per 1,000. For all 2005 vehicles the figure is 117.3 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 2005 Lexus ES open?
No. The 1 investigation that names this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.