Rear window break light (light in the middle of rear vehicle window) stops lighting starting 2015. When the vehicle is in the breaking motion, the rear window break light is dead and does not turn red.
2010 Lexus HS 250 Hybrid electrical complaints
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I'm just over 100k miles and my lexus had a "check hybrid system" light as I was driving on the freeway and completely lost power in my vehicle on the freeway going about 65 MPH. All warning lights came on and I was unable to accelerate or put the car in drive. I had to pull over and put on my hazards on a very busy freeway. I took my car to my local lexus service center and they informed me that I have an "internal transaxle short" and the entire transaxle needs to be replaced for the cost of around $7,000. Lexus informed me they actually didn't identify the issue or cause and simply called it a "glitch". Could be connected to the wiring or electrical system, but their answer was to just completely change out the system instead of actually fix the problem and at great cost to me. This could also be related to the ongoing hybrid battery issues that happen around 100k miles, but they said they wouldn't know until this fix was made.
My accident was caused by unintended acceleration. As I was slowly turning right into a parking place, the car suddenly accelerated and crashed into a brick building. The force of the crash caused the air bags to deploy. There was so much damage to the car that it was a total loss. After the crash I obtained the event data recorder (edr) reading from a contractor hired by toyota. It showed that for the last 5 seconds before the crash, I was applying very light pressure to the gas pedal up until the last .8 seconds. For the last .8 seconds the edr shows that my foot was on the break and the throttle was at nearly maximum value. During the last .8 seconds the car went from 5 MPH to 9.9 MPH and the engine RPM went from 1200 to 2800. I did not apply pressure to the gas pedal at this time. I was applying pressure to the break pedal. This is a case of unintended acceleration caused by faulty electronic throttle control (etc) software. Since the edr gets it data from the etc software and not the gas pedal itself, it is most likely that the software was a fault, as I was not applying the gas during the last second before the accident. It would be impossible for me to apply full pressure to the gas pedal while applying the breaks at the same time on this car. First of all my shoe width is smaller than the space between break and gas pedals. Furthermore the break pedal is above the gas pedal making it nearly impossible for anyone to apply the breaks and floor the gas at the same time. This is a case of failed electronic control software, which has been identified in several lawsuits that toyota has lost recently. In spite of all these lost cases, a lost class-action lawsuit, and numerous documented accidents with the federal safety agency, toyota has done nothing to fix the problem, which is faulty electronic throttle control software.
I had parked the car in a grocery store parking spot between two cars and had my foot on the brake. I was about to shut off the ignition when the car suddenly moved forward. Intuitively, I pressed harder on the brake, but the car speeded up, jumped over two parking barriers, travelled about 50 feet at high speed, hit the back of another car, a honda odyssey van with sufficient force that the honda itself jumped over a parking barrier and a curve and hit a pillar in a building's veranda. My car then stopped and then I turned off the ignition. My car thus experinced unintended acceleration and, in spite of jumping over parking barriers and hitting another car with substantial force, the air bags were not deployed. I have bruises from the seat belt tightening over my body and the owner of the honda odyssey, who was about to get in his car and was thrown back to the ground, has a fracture in the tail bone area of his back.
I was parallel parking the car. I pulled alongside the curb behind a volvo and stopped the car. With the car stopped and my foot on the brake I moved my right hand to press the park button and to my surprise the car leaped (5 feet) forward into the volvo causing damage to my car (hood, grill, bumper and right quarter panel) and the volvo (rear end). The gas engine was not running when I was parking only the electric engine was running. We were fortunate that my wife, son and I were not injured. They will not get back in this car again. I bought the car new and have been driving it for a little over 2 years.
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