Recall Register

Lexus SC400: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 2 recall campaigns for the Lexus SC400, model years 1990 to 2001. NHTSA has 61 complaints on file for this model line. 1 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. 19900
  2. 19921
  3. 19930
  4. 19940
  5. 19950
  6. 19961
  7. 19971
  8. 19980
  9. 19990
  10. 20000
  11. 20010
Lexus SC400: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2001 Lexus SC400 NHTSA page0118%
2000 Lexus SC400 NHTSA page0118%
1999 Lexus SC400 NHTSA page0236%
1998 Lexus SC400 NHTSA page0236%
1997 Lexus SC400 NHTSA page1118%47,525
1996 Lexus SC400 NHTSA page1472%47,525
1995 Lexus SC400 NHTSA page09162%
1994 Lexus SC400 NHTSA page0236%
1993 Lexus SC400 NHTSA page08144%
1992 Lexus SC400130541%1,415
1990 Lexus SC400 NHTSA page0118%

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

78 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 SC400: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Electrical System179.514
Vehicle Speed Control128.210
Exterior Lighting115.49
Service Brakes, Hydraulic102.68
Tires76.96
Engine and Engine Cooling64.15
Unknown or Other51.34
Power Train51.34
Equipment51.34
Air Bags38.53

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Lexus SC400, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1992, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Lexus SC400, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2004, with 11 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Lexus: all 67 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Lexus SC400: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/lexus/sc400/. 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 SC400 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1997 with 1, 1996 with 1, 1992 with 1. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Lexus SC400 model year has the most complaints?
The 1992 model year, with 30 of the 61 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Lexus SC400 name?
Electrical System: 179.5 per 1,000 component mentions. Vehicle Speed Control: 128.2 per 1,000 component mentions. Exterior Lighting: 115.4 per 1,000 component mentions.