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2004 Lexus LS430 Acceleration problems

Owners have filed 6 complaints about the 2004 Lexus LS430's acceleration & cruise control with NHTSA - 17% of all its complaints, most recently on March 8, 2017. They describe 4 crashes, 0 fires and 1 injury. Unintended acceleration, surging, throttle problems and cruise or adaptive cruise faults.

Complaints
6
Recalls
0
Crashes
4
Fires
0
Injuries
1
Deaths
0

Acceleration complaints

Acceleration & cruise controlCrash

When pulling into parking space at a low speed (2 mph) car suddenly accelerated even though accelerator pedal was not being depressed. Operator's foot was on brake pedal the entire time but car would not stop until it hit a parked vehicle. At the time the car was being turned to the right coming into the parking space. There was a high curb (~10 inches high) at the front of the parking space and a median but the car jumped over this and struck the parked on the other side of the median.

Filed Incident Vehicle speed controlNHTSA 10959529
Acceleration & cruise controlCrash

Tl*the contact owns a 2004 lexus ls430. The contact stated that while driving at 5 mph, the vehicle suddenly accelerated while her foot was on the brake pedal. The vehicle crashed into a parked vehicle. There were no injuries. The contact called the manufacturer and was told that someone would contact her in 6-8 weeks. The failure mileage was approximately 63,000.

Filed Incident Vehicle speed controlNHTSA 10329281
Acceleration & cruise controlCrash1 injury

Sudden uncontrolled acceleration of 2004 lexus ls430: owner was in parking garage beginning to exit garage from parking place when lexus suddenly accelerated uncontrollably. Owner applied brake pedal but could not stop the lexus. Owner steered lexus to avoid hitting other vehicles and collided with medical office building, glanced off side of building and collided head-on with electrical power transformer. Owner was seriously injured. (Lawyer wrote in on behalf of his client). Updated ivoq 06/03/10.*Jb

Filed Incident Vehicle speed controlNHTSA 10324726
Acceleration & cruise control

I have a 2004 lexus ls 430 that has a random problem that the dealers tell me is normal. On occasion when I roll to a stop the car lunges forward on its own forcing me to apply extreme pressure on the brake to stop the vehicle. It accelerates just for a split 2nd then stops. I have learned to stop approx. 20' Behind a vehicle just in case the car decides it wants to lunge forward. This has happened no less than 6 times since we purchased the vehicle new in 10/2003. I have explained the problem to the dealer...

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at least 4 times and they tell me they can not find a problem and its normal. With the latest toyota problems I suspect there is an electrical problem and I wanted to report the problem to you. *Tr

Filed Incident Vehicle speed controlNHTSA 10313107
AirbagsAcceleration & cruise controlCrash

Unintended acceleration. As I was parking the vehicle suddenly accelerated and jumped the curb and ran into the building. I tried to back off the building and could not stop the racing engine. The vehicle shot backwards even though I was on the brake. It went through some hedges over a rise and crossed the street where the rear hit a palm tree and collapsed the trunk. Both the front and rear were severely damaged. No air bags deployed. *Tr

Filed Incident Air bags · Vehicle speed controlNHTSA 10200807
Acceleration & cruise control

The consumer's 2004 lexus ls 430 hesitated intermittently while accelerating to enter a highway. *Nm the vehicle was taken to the dealer twice and all they said was that the vehicle had to learn the consumer's driving habits and it would correct itself. They also said the would burn something into the computer board. The vehicle hesitated again while the consumer was making a left turn from a very low speed. After a few seconds the vehicle finally accelerated before the vehicle was hit by oncoming traffic. *Nm

Filed Vehicle speed controlNHTSA 10145358

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