Recall Register

2003 Lexus ES300: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 2003 Lexus ES300. NHTSA has 112 complaints on file for this model year. 4 NHTSA investigations name this model year.

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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 2003 Lexus ES300. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 112 complaints for it.

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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

112 complaints, 142 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.

  • 2003 Lexus ES300
  • All 2003 vehicles
2003 Lexus ES300: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component2003 ES300All 2003 vehiclesES300, all yearsMentions
Vehicle Speed Control345.142176.649
Power Train190.1121142.727
Engine and Engine Cooling77.577.791.211
Air Bags77.582.28311
Electrical System63.4123.7839
Service Brakes, Hydraulic49.358.765.57
Fuel System, Gasoline42.336.523.46
Unknown or Other28.220.235.14
Structure21.16216.43
Engine21.127.3143

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 18.

Complaints that report a crash
43
Complaints that report a fire
2
Injuries in the complaints
18
Deaths in the complaints
2
Date of the newest complaint
21 Apr 2019

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 2003 Lexus ES300, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2004, with 39 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 2003 Lexus ES300
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
DP09001Defect petitionUNWANTED AND UNINTENDED ACCELERATIONVehicle Speed Control8 Apr 200929 Oct 2009
DP05002Defect petitionVEHICLE SPEED CONTROLVehicle Speed Control5 Aug 20055 Jan 2006
PE04021Preliminary evaluationTHROTTLE CONTROL SYSTEMVehicle Speed Control3 Mar 200422 Jul 2004
DP04003Defect petitionTHROTTLE CONTROL SYSTEMVehicle Speed Control17 Feb 20045 Mar 2004

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. 19921
  2. 19930
  3. 19941
  4. 19951
  5. 19961
  6. 19972
  7. 19981
  8. 19990
  9. 20000
  10. 20010
  11. 20022
  12. 20030
  13. 20050
  14. 20060
  15. 20130

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. 2003 Lexus ES300: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/lexus/es300/2003/. 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 CO., LTD.

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Questions

How many recall campaigns does the Lexus ES300 have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 5 recall campaigns for the Lexus ES300, model years 1992 to 2013. None of them names the 2003 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 2003 Lexus ES300 name most often?
Vehicle Speed Control: 49 of 142 component mentions, or 345.1 per 1,000. For all 2003 vehicles the figure is 42 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 2003 Lexus ES300 open?
No. Each of the 4 investigations that name this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.