Lexus Ls400 1996

• Recall 51090 [USA]: Without the amber reflectors, the vehicle will be poorly illuminated, possibly resulting in a vehicle crash without warning.
  Certain ck motorsports combination headlights, clear corner, bumper, and side marker lights sold as replacement lamps for use on the passenger vehicles listed above. Some combination lamps that are not equipped with amber side reflectors fail to conform to federal motor vehicle safety standard no. 108, lamps, reflective devices, and associated equipment.
  ck motorsport will notify owners and replace the noncompliant lamps free of charge. The recall began on july 1, 2006. Owners may contact ck motorsport at 1-909-610-7211.
  this recall only pertains to aftermarket replacement equipment and has no relation to any original equipment installed on vehicles manufactured by the vehicle manufacturers.For more information on the lamp model numbers, click on document search and view document titled "lamp model numbers."customers may contact the national highway traffic safety administration's vehicle safety hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (tty: 1-800-424-9153); or go to http://www.Safercar.Gov.

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• Recall 11062 [USA]: A starter motor no-start condition or an underhood fire can result.
  Vehicle description: passenger vehicles. Due to improper assembly of the terminal for the starter motor magnetic switch, an electrical short circuit can occur if electrically-conductive liquid, such as road splash with deicing salt, enters this area.
  dealers will repair the magnetic switch.
  owner notification began february 9, 1998. Owners who take their vehicles to an authorized dealer on an agreed upon service date and do not receive the free remedy within a reasonable time should contact toyota at 1-800-331-4331. Also contact the national highway traffic safety administration's auto safety hotline at 1-888-dash-2-dot (1-888-327-4236).

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• Recall 1998015 [Canada]: Electrical
  Due to improper assembly of the terminal for the starter motor magnetic switch (solenoid), an electrical short circuit may occur if electrically conductive liquid enters this area. This condition could result in a possible underhood fire. Correction: the starter motor magnetic switch will be replaced on affected vehicles.

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To ensure accuracy and for your safety, it is recommended to do a free VIN recall check here or here [USA] - UK - Canada.

Bulletins are notices put out by manufacturers in conjunction with the NHTSA to notify the public of manufacturing issues or changes.

The nhtsa website for reporting/displaying vehicle safety problems for my 96 lexus ls400 (safercar.Gov) shows there were only 12 service bulletins, yet in fact there were many many more not shown on the nhtsa site. Going to the site www.Alldatadiy.Com/tsb/31/96310210.Html one can see a complete list of service bulletins, 108 by my count. A similar disparity in lists applies to the nhtsa website for the 95 ls400, which on www.Alldatadiy.Com/tsb/31/95310210.Html shows 128 service bulletins apply, but a nhtsa website safercar.Gov search only shows 12, same number it shows for 96. Now obviously the two years aren't in reality going to have the exact same number of service bulletins, yet that is what the nhtsa site shows, 12 each year, both way short of the real numbers of 128 and 108 bulletins, respectively, for the 95 and 96 model years. This issue of incomplete data at the nhtsa makes it difficult to reference a particular service bulletin when reporting a serious safety issue with a particular car because it seems the nhtsa has no knowledge of all the relevant bulletins and so cannot verify that the manufacturer knows about and has a fix for a particular problem but has nonetheless failed to elevate it to the level of a recall, leaving the poor owners to fend for themselves if they bring in a car with a problem and the dealer fails to diagnose the problem as one described in one of their own service bulletins. Nhtsa needs to get its data-updating process fixed so all the service bulletins for a vehicle appear on their own safercar.,gov site, for use by people creating complaints as well as by the nhtsa investigators themselves, so people can request that nhtsa elevate serious safety problems (like the one in lexus technical service bulletin eg002-97, where cars stall when idling on the freeway) to the level of a recall and not just a bulletin given to dealers.

Driving vehicle down freeway started smelling gasoline odor. Drove straight to nearest toyota dealer. To make a long story short, the seams of the fuel tank had split open. Since the fuel tank is located in the trunk the fuel drained into the cabin of the vehicle and also was spilling out on the drive of the dealership when i arrived. Tejas toyota in humble, tx. The dealer personnel immediately took the vehicle to a remote location on their lot due to the great possibility of an explosion. I contacted lexus to notify of the situation, received an incident number. Car was repaired, when complete i notified lexus, they seemed not to care much, offered to make me an appointment at a lexus dealership to verify the toyota dealer had installed the new parts correctly for a charge. That is after paying over $2,300.00 for a new fuel tank. They closed the incident report much to my dismay. The money is not the issue but my concern that this might be an age issue that could affect others. I had put out a cigarette just before a full tank of fuel emptied into the vehicle. Oh and yes i had filled the tank just before the incident. I do possess this original defective tank. Tejas toyota can verify all of this information and the tank is available for inspection at my home. *tr

Tl* the contact owns a 1996 lexus ls400. The contact attempted to start the vehicle when the battery caught on fire at the positive post. He stated that he was able to extinguish the fire yet the vehicle would no longer start. The vehicle was taken to a local mechanic for the failure where the mechanic advised him of a recall under nhtsa campaign id number: 98v016000 (electrical system; starter assembly). He then called the manufacturer and was advised that the recall work had previously been performed on the vehicle. The mechanic advised him that the starter, battery and battery cables would need to be replaced. The contact also stated that he was unable to shift gears. The vehicle was not repaired. The approximate failure and current mileage was 170,000.

Sudden acceleration. *ak

There was a strong fuel smell inside vehicle. Vehicle was inspected by dealer 5 times before fuel tank was replaced.*ak

The brake rotors are experiencing premature warping. *mjs

Tl* the contact owns a 1996 lexus ls400. The contact stated that the vehicle stalled without warning. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the issue. The failure mileage was 116,000. Updated 02/23/16*lj updated 05/04/18*jb *tr

As highway speed is increased frontal/side wind off windshield caused at two different times for me to have to realign the car on the roadway due to this problem, also as the speed increases the inside of the car is noisy.*ak

All four tire buldging and performing poorly causing vehicle to ride roughly. Nlm bridgestone (dot elangjcc146 225/60r16 - 97v er-33)