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Substantial Defect
One that impairs the use, value or safety of the vehicle. Stalling, brake failure, steering and persistent electrical faults qualify. A rattle generally does not.
By Manufacturer
LEXUS LEMON LAW.
Lexus has no separate record at NHTSA. Every campaign is filed by Toyota — which is why looking up your recall number pulls up Toyota vehicles, and why so many Lexus owners conclude, wrongly, that they have nothing.
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EXPLORE ↓What Decides It
Four facts, in this order.
Lexus built it, but Lexus does not decide it. These four questions decide it, and the repair orders in your glovebox answer all four.
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Repair Attempts
Florida looks for three attempts at the same defect. New York looks for four. Recall work and visits that found nothing both count.
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Days Out of Service
Thirty cumulative days in Florida and in New York. Cumulative, not consecutive, and the days count whether or not anything was fixed.
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Coverage Window
The defect has to be reported while the vehicle is inside the warranty or rights period. When it was reported matters more than today's date.
Lexus is Toyota's luxury division and it has no manufacturer entry of its own at NHTSA. Every Lexus campaign is filed by Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing, which is why a Lexus owner who looks up a campaign number lands on a page full of Toyota models. The claim runs against the same manufacturer either way.
That shared filing is not a technicality. Campaign 25V744 covered 1,024,407 vehicles and swept in the Lexus NX, RX, TX, ES, GX, LS, LC, LX and RZ alongside Toyota models and the Subaru Solterra. A defect documented across a million vehicles is a known pattern, and that is useful to you.
A visit where nothing was found is still a repair attempt. Lexus's recent campaigns lean heavily on software — camera blackouts, cluster failures, a transmission control fault fixed by reflash. Software defects are intermittent, dealerships frequently cannot reproduce them, and owners throw away the paperwork that proves they reported it.
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Recall or Claim
A recall says Toyota knows. A claim says they were given the chance to fix it.
A recall is the manufacturer acknowledging that a defect exists across a population of vehicles and offering a remedy. It is a public admission of the fault pattern, which makes it useful evidence. What it is not is a Lemon Law claim.
The claim arises from what happened to your vehicle: the defect was reported, the dealership was given a reasonable number of attempts to repair it, and it is still there.
The V35A twin-turbo V6 campaign is worth knowing about if you own an LX or GX. Machining debris left in the engine destroys the main bearings and causes stalling and loss of drive power, and the campaign has been expanded more than once for the identical defect.
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Your campaign number is filed under Toyota. That is normal, and it changes nothing.
A luxury badge does not buy a better law. It is the same one.
Check My Case ↗Recurring Lexus Faults
WHAT KEEPS COMING BACK.
These are the defect categories that generate the most Lemon Law and warranty claims involving Lexus vehicles. A vehicle showing one of these is not automatically a claim. A vehicle showing one of these repeatedly and unrepaired usually is.
V35A Twin-Turbo Engine Failure
Campaign 25V767 covered 126,691 vehicles including the 2022-2024 LX and 2024 GX, where machining debris destroys the main bearings and causes sudden stalling and loss of drive power.
Rearview Camera Blackout
26V162 recalled 144,200 NX, RX and TX vehicles whose rearview image fails to appear in reverse, and the broader 25V744 campaign swept in 1,024,407 Toyota-group vehicles for a related fault.
Occupant Sensing Failure
26V180 recalled 15,264 2022-2024 LX vehicles where inadequate front passenger seat clearance defeats the occupant classification system, risking improper or suppressed airbag deployment in a crash.
Transmission Software Damage
A February 2026 campaign covering 2025-2026 LX 600 models addressed ten-speed automatic software that can damage the transmission itself, causing power loss and fire-risk fluid leaks.
Instrument Cluster Blackout
Toyota's 591,377-vehicle campaign 25V595 included the Lexus LS, RX and TX, where the instrument panel may fail to display vehicle speed, brake system and tire pressure warning lights.
Defroster and HVAC Loss
25V577 recalled 94,320 vehicles including the Lexus RZ, where HVAC faults such as electrical compressor failure leave the defroster and defogger inoperative and cut driver visibility.
Where It Ends Up
Four ways a Lexus claim resolves.
Which one applies depends on the state, the facts and what gets negotiated with Toyota. All four start with the same free case review.
The models we see most
Recall record · NHTSA · September 2026
LEXUSNO LEXUS RECORD. IT IS ALL FILED UNDER TOYOTA.
01 / 2022-2026
1,024,407
Rearview camera freezes in reverse — NX, RX, TX, ES, GX, LS, LC, LX and RZ including hybrid and plug-in variants, alongside Toyota models and the Subaru Solterra.
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02 / NX RX TX, 2022-2026
144,200
Rearview camera fails to display — A separate campaign covering only Lexus models: the reversing image may not appear at all when reverse is selected.
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03 / LX GX, 2022-2024
126,691
V35A engine bearing failure — Shared with the Toyota Tundra. Manufacturing debris in the twin-turbo V6 causes main bearing failure, stalling and loss of drive power.
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04 / LX, 2022-2024
15,264
Passenger airbag sensing failure — Insufficient clearance around the front passenger seat frame defeats the occupant classification sensor, causing improper airbag deployment.
Check My Case ↗Lexus has no manufacturer entry at NHTSA. Every campaign is filed by Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing, which is why a Lexus campaign number pulls up Toyota vehicles. The warranty obligation and the defendant are the same either way. Figures from NHTSA as of 23 September 2026.
Read the 15 Questions ↗Lexus Lemon Law
15 questions Lexus owners ask.
General information about Lemon Law and warranty claims, not legal advice. What applies to a particular vehicle depends on its records, its warranty and the state where it was bought.
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Because Lexus has no separate manufacturer record at NHTSA. Every Lexus campaign is filed by Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing, so one campaign number can cover Lexus, Toyota and even Subaru vehicles at once. It is entirely normal. The warranty obligation and any Lemon Law claim run against the same manufacturer whichever badge is on the grille.
Possibly. Campaign 25V767 covered 126,691 vehicles including the 2022-2024 Lexus LX, the 2024 GX and the Toyota Tundra, where manufacturing debris left in the V35A twin-turbo V6 causes main bearing failure, sudden stalling and loss of drive power. The campaign has been expanded more than once for the same defect. Your repair record decides the claim.
A rearview camera is a federally mandated safety system, which makes a persistent failure materially different from a cosmetic complaint. Lexus has two current campaigns on it: 144,200 NX, RX and TX vehicles under 26V162, and 1,024,407 Toyota-group vehicles under 25V744. Whether it supports a claim depends on how many times it went back unrepaired.
No. The purchase price affects what a repurchase is worth, not whether you have a claim. Florida looks for three repair attempts at the same defect or thirty cumulative days out of service; New York looks for four attempts or thirty days. Those thresholds are identical whatever the vehicle cost, and the repair orders decide it either way.
Each of those visits is a repair attempt. Several Lexus campaigns are software-only — the camera blackout, the cluster failure, the LX transmission control fault. A remedy delivered as software is still a remedy, and when the symptom returns afterwards the attempt count keeps building exactly as it would with a mechanical repair.
No. A recall is the manufacturer acknowledging that a defect exists across a population of vehicles and offering a remedy. A Lemon Law claim arises from what happened to your specific vehicle: a substantial defect, reported inside the coverage period, that the manufacturer was given a reasonable number of attempts to repair and did not. The recall is useful evidence within that claim, not a substitute for it.
Yes, where the recall remedy addressed the defect at issue and the fault persisted afterward. Owners frequently leave recall visits out of their own count because the work was free and manufacturer-initiated, which weakens the record unnecessarily. If the vehicle went in for the fault and came back with the fault, it was an attempt.
Florida's presumption generally arises after three repair attempts for the same defect, or after the vehicle has been out of service for 30 or more cumulative days during the Lemon Law rights period. A separate and earlier trigger applies at 15 cumulative days, when written notice goes to the manufacturer. It is a presumption rather than a fixed requirement — a defect serious enough to be dangerous can qualify with fewer attempts, and the presumption is one route to the remedy rather than the only one.
New York generally looks for four repair attempts for the same defect, or 30 or more days out of service, within the first two years or 18,000 miles. The framework is close to Florida's but the thresholds and the arbitration process differ, and a vehicle bought in one state and serviced in another needs the applicable law identified early.
One that impairs the use, value or safety of the vehicle. Stalling, brake failure, steering faults and persistent electrical problems clearly qualify. A rattle or a trim complaint generally does not. Between those extremes the answer depends on how the fault affects the vehicle in normal use, and on what the repair orders actually say about it.
State Lemon Law is primarily directed at qualifying new and demonstrator vehicles. A used Lexus can still carry rights where a manufacturer or dealer warranty was active when the defect was reported, generally under federal warranty law including the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, which does not carry the same new-vehicle limitation.
A leased vehicle can be covered where it meets the same substantive requirements that apply to a purchase. The calculation of any refund is tied to the amounts actually paid into the lease rather than the full vehicle price, and the leasing company is dealt with as part of the resolution rather than left to be sorted out afterward.
That visit still counts as a repair attempt. Intermittent faults are extremely common in software, camera and electrical systems, and a growing share of manufacturer campaigns are software-related. A record of repeated visits where the fault was reported and not resolved is precisely the pattern the law addresses. Ask for the complaint to be written down in your words, and keep the copy that says it could not be verified.
Three, in practice. A repurchase, where the manufacturer buys the vehicle back and refunds what was paid, less a statutory offset for the miles driven before the first report of the defect. A replacement with a comparable vehicle. Or a cash settlement where the vehicle stays with you and the manufacturer pays for the diminished value. Which applies depends on the state, the facts and what is negotiated.
Broadly: the purchase price plus collateral and incidental charges, minus a mileage offset tied to the distance driven before the defect was first reported. Registration, taxes and finance charges are frequently recoverable. The offset is the part manufacturers most often calculate in their own favour, and it is worth checking line by line.
Other Manufacturers
The badge does not decide the claim.
The law applies the same way to every brand sold in the state. What differs is the defect pattern, the warranty terms and how hard the manufacturer fights.
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