Recall Register

Lexus GS400: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 1 recall campaign for the Lexus GS400, model years 1994 to 2000. NHTSA has 57 complaints on file for this model line. 1 of the 4 model years have a page on this register.

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. 19940
  2. 19981
  3. 19990
  4. 20000
Lexus GS400: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2000 Lexus GS400 NHTSA page0856%
1999 Lexus GS400 NHTSA page017119%
1998 Lexus GS400131218%14,855
1994 Lexus GS400 NHTSA page017%

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

80 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 GS400: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Vehicle Speed Control17514
Air Bags12510
Suspension112.59
Electrical System1008
Service Brakes, Hydraulic87.57
Seat Belts756
Engine and Engine Cooling62.55
Tires504
Service Brakes504
Structure37.53

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Lexus GS400, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1998, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Lexus GS400, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2000, with 9 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Lexus: all 67 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Lexus GS400: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/lexus/gs400/. 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
Manufacturer in the recall file
TOYOTA MOTOR CO., LTD.

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 GS400 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1998 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Lexus GS400 model year has the most complaints?
The 1998 model year, with 31 of the 57 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Lexus GS400 name?
Vehicle Speed Control: 175 per 1,000 component mentions. Air Bags: 125 per 1,000 component mentions. Suspension: 112.5 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Lexus GS400?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.