Recall Register

Lexus RX300: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 2 recall campaigns for the Lexus RX300, model years 1998 to 2003. NHTSA has 719 complaints on file for this model line. 4 of the 6 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. 19980
  2. 19992
  3. 20000
  4. 20010
  5. 20020
  6. 20030
Lexus RX300: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2003 Lexus RX300 NHTSA page02420%
2002 Lexus RX30008873%
2001 Lexus RX3000168140%
2000 Lexus RX3000216180%
1999 Lexus RX3002220184%29,944
1998 Lexus RX300 NHTSA page033%

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

843 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 RX300: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Power Train521.9440
Engine and Engine Cooling90.276
Vehicle Speed Control78.366
Air Bags43.937
Electrical System33.228
Service Brakes, Hydraulic28.524
Visibility1916
Seat Belts1916
Suspension17.815
Engine17.815

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Lexus RX300, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1999, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Lexus RX300, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2009, with 111 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Lexus: all 67 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Lexus RX300: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/lexus/rx300/. 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 RX300 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1999 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Lexus RX300 model year has the most complaints?
The 1999 model year, with 220 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 RX300 name?
Power Train: 521.9 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 90.2 per 1,000 component mentions. Vehicle Speed Control: 78.3 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Lexus RX300?
1 investigation names one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.