Recall Register

Lexus RX330: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 5 recall campaigns for the Lexus RX330, model years 2004 to 2011. NHTSA has 517 complaints on file for this model line. 3 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. 20045
  2. 20053
  3. 20061
  4. 20071
  5. 20090
  6. 20110
Lexus RX330: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2011 Lexus RX330 NHTSA page011%
2009 Lexus RX330 NHTSA page011%
2007 Lexus RX330 NHTSA page145%769,379
2006 Lexus RX33016677%769,379
2005 Lexus RX3303162188%1,557,299
2004 Lexus RX3305283328%1,744,240

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

648 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 RX330: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Power Train145.194
Structure120.478
Service Brakes, Hydraulic117.376
Exterior Lighting97.263
Vehicle Speed Control92.660
Steering69.445
Unknown or Other64.842
Air Bags58.638
Engine and Engine Cooling3724
Visibility35.523

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Lexus RX330, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2006, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Lexus RX330, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2005, with 76 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Lexus: all 67 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Lexus RX330: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/lexus/rx330/. 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 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 RX330 model years have the most recall campaigns?
2004 with 5, 2005 with 3, 2007 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Lexus RX330 model year has the most complaints?
The 2004 model year, with 283 of the 517 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Lexus RX330 name?
Power Train: 145.1 per 1,000 component mentions. Structure: 120.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Service Brakes, Hydraulic: 117.3 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Lexus RX330?
2 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.