Tl*the contact owns a 2007 lexus es350. While the contact was having her vehicle inspected the contact was informed that the rear brake pads were worn and needed to be replaced. The contact had no knowledge that the brakes pads needed to be serviced. There were no prior warnings and the current and failure mileages were 20,000.
2007 Lexus ES350 brakes complaints
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I have owned lexus es350 2007 and I am problem with the handle when I press brake at high speed. I brought into dealer and they changed the rotors 3rd time and this is fourth time for the same problem. May 2007, nov. 2008, aug. 2008, mar 2009 I am having same problem. This time they want me to change rotors for front and back at my expense, but I believe this is not normal and dealer could not locate the problem. I am worry that it is associate with brakes and this is what my wife drives.
I was getting on hwy 101 ramp on a saturday morning around 10:45 am where traffic was moderate, suddenly felt the car began accelerating by itself so I eased up on the accelerator. Car continued to accelerate uncontrollably on its own. I then stepped hard on the brake but the car didn't slow down. Saw the cruise control light was on by itself, turned it off but the car was still accelerating. Meanwhile, the vehicle accelerated to 105 MPH .miraculously managed to move over to the shoulder without hitting any cars but the vehicle was still moving at 100+ MPH. Finally my husband had to force the gear box to park and I applied the emergency parking brake before the vehicle finally started to slow down and eventually stopped near exit #389. It was a 3.5 miles journey at over 100 MPH with many close calls of serious accidents .vehicle was towed to lexus dealership. Dealer later informed us that the sudden acceleration was caused by the all weather floor mat and their explanation on why the brake did not work was when the gas throttle was open, the horsepower of the car was so great that the brake wasn't able to stop it. We were not convinced and demand to have lexus corporation send a master technician or have an independent and qualified technician for a full and complete diagnosis. Request was refused by the dealership service department manager. Based on their computer diagnosis, there was no error code came up and therefore we have to trust them that the program has been resolved by the replacement of the floor mat our research found this problem has happened in a lot of different models of vehicles of toyota and lexus. Suspicion is that there is some other bigger safety issues behind and toyota is using the floor mat issue as an excuse to cover up more serious safety problem.
I was driving my 2007 lexus es350 north on route 34 in colts neck, new jersey. Suddenly car speed increased from approximately 35 MPH to in excess of 70mph. I applied brakes and emergency brakes which did nothing. I spent the next three miles avoiding cars in my lane and oncoming lanes. During this time I attempted to put car into neutral and turn it off. Nothing happened. I finally was able to put car in reverse which slowed it down but then it started going backwards. I finally got into neutral and was able to turn off. Car is presently at lexus dealer. They kept asking me about floor mats and that they would inspect their placement. I keep mats at least six to 12 inches from pedals. There have 40 such incidents with this year and model since it came out. Lexus keeps talking about floor mats, but some of the cars did not even have floor mats. Something should be done before a lot of people die. I was very lucky to not kill myself and a lot of other people.
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