Recall Register

Lexus GS: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 7 recall campaigns for the Lexus GS, model years 1995 to 2020. NHTSA has 158 complaints on file for this model line. 2 of the 24 model years have a page on this register. By recall campaigns, the Lexus GS is number 14 of 70 model lines of Lexus on the register. Recall campaigns for the Lexus GS: none in 2024 and none in 2025. For all Lexus vehicles, the count fell by 12.5%, from 8 in 2024 to 7 in 2025.

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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.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

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

  1. 19950
  2. 19960
  3. 19980
  4. 19990
  5. 20010
  6. 20020
  7. 20030
  8. 20040
  9. 20050
  10. 20066
  11. 20072
  12. 20080
  13. 20090
  14. 20100
  15. 20110
  16. 20120
  17. 20130
  18. 20140
  19. 20150
  20. 20161
  21. 20171
  22. 20181
  23. 20191
  24. 20201
Lexus GS: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2020 Lexus GS NHTSA page100%9,139
2019 Lexus GS NHTSA page1115%9,139
2018 Lexus GS NHTSA page1346%9,139
2017 Lexus GS NHTSA page1115%9,139
2016 Lexus GS NHTSA page1576%9,139
2015 Lexus GS NHTSA page0346%
2014 Lexus GS NHTSA page0346%
2013 Lexus GS NHTSA page019289%
2012 Lexus GS NHTSA page0115%
2011 Lexus GS NHTSA page0346%
2010 Lexus GS NHTSA page010152%
2009 Lexus GS NHTSA page0230%
2008 Lexus GS NHTSA page016243%
2007 Lexus GS225380%459,349
2006 Lexus GS644668%1,251,316
2005 Lexus GS NHTSA page0115%
2004 Lexus GS NHTSA page0230%
2003 Lexus GS NHTSA page0461%
2002 Lexus GS NHTSA page0115%
2001 Lexus GS NHTSA page0346%
1999 Lexus GS NHTSA page0461%
1998 Lexus GS NHTSA page0461%
1996 Lexus GS NHTSA page0115%
1995 Lexus GS NHTSA page0230%

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

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

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.

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

Components in the complaints

214 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.

Lexus GS: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine116.825
Unknown or Other112.124
Steering93.520
Electrical System65.414
Service Brakes65.414
Visibility/Wiper65.414
Fuel/Propulsion System60.713
Air Bags56.112
Exterior Lighting56.112
Power Train42.19

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Lexus GS, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2006, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Lexus GS, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2020, with 27 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Lexus: all 70 model lines

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Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
3 Nov 2026
Complaint file through
5 Nov 2026
Manufacturer in the recall file
TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Lexus GS model years have the most recall campaigns?
2006 with 6, 2007 with 2, 2020 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Lexus GS model year has the most complaints?
The 2006 model year, with 44 of the 158 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Lexus GS name?
Engine: 116.8 per 1,000 component mentions. Unknown or Other: 112.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Steering: 93.5 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Lexus GS?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.