11V539000
ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING
IN SOME CASES, THE BELT FOR THE POWER STEERING PUMP MAY BECOME DETACHED FROM THE PULLEY WHICH COULD RESULT IN A LOSS OF POWER STEERING AND A SUDDEN INCREASE IN STEERING EFFORT, INCREASING THE RISK OF A CRASH.
2005 LEXUS ES330
1 safety recall campaign, 1 defect investigation, 176 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations1
Owner complaints176
Complaints citing a crash44
Complaints citing a fire5
Complaints are reports from owners of this model year, not findings about any particular vehicle, and a model that sold in large numbers will collect more of them. They are counted here as filed; nothing is inferred from them.
Recall campaigns 1 of 1
What owners report most
- 46VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
- 31POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
- 17AIR BAGS
- 10POWER TRAIN
- 7ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 7ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING
- 7SERVICE BRAKES
- 5UNKNOWN OR OTHER
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2005 LEXUS ES330s can have entirely different histories, and a recall campaign usually covers a build-date window rather than a whole model year — which a VIN does not encode, so only the door-jamb label settles it. Scanning the VIN adds the decode, the crash tests, the fuel economy and the complaints matched to that exact engine, trim and assembly plant.