Recall Register

Lexus IS 250: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 8 recall campaigns for the Lexus IS 250, model years 2006 to 2016. NHTSA has 719 complaints on file for this model line. 9 of the 11 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. 20066
  2. 20075
  3. 20085
  4. 20096
  5. 20106
  6. 20114
  7. 20124
  8. 20132
  9. 20140
  10. 20150
  11. 20160
Lexus IS 250: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2016 Lexus IS 250 NHTSA page012%
2015 Lexus IS 250 NHTSA page01624%
2014 Lexus IS 25003554%
2013 Lexus IS 250258%1,927,466
2012 Lexus IS 25041726%3,073,261
2011 Lexus IS 25043046%4,249,903
2010 Lexus IS 25064061%5,300,430
2009 Lexus IS 25064873%4,578,857
2008 Lexus IS 2505125191%3,950,839
2007 Lexus IS 2505213326%3,950,839
2006 Lexus IS 2506189289%3,954,406

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

938 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 IS 250: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Air Bags245.2230
Structure170.6160
Unknown or Other8176
Vehicle Speed Control76.872
Engine55.452
Visibility/Wiper53.350
Electrical System50.147
Fuel/Propulsion System3331
Steering3230
Power Train22.421

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Lexus IS 250, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2019, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Lexus IS 250, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2017, with 126 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Lexus: all 69 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Lexus IS 250: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/lexus/is-250/. 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
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
Manufacturer in the recall file
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing

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 IS 250 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2010 with 6, 2009 with 6, 2006 with 6. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Lexus IS 250 model year has the most complaints?
The 2007 model year, with 213 of the 719 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Lexus IS 250 name?
Air Bags: 245.2 per 1,000 component mentions. Structure: 170.6 per 1,000 component mentions. Unknown or Other: 81 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Lexus IS 250?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.