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SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC:FOUNDATION COMPONENTS:MASTER CYLINDER
A LEAK OF BRAKE FLUID COULD LEAD TO A CHANGE IN BRAKE PEDAL FEEL AND OVERTIME A DEGRADATION IN BRAKING PERFORMANCE INCREASING THE RISK OF A CRASH.
2005 LEXUS RX
1 safety recall campaign, 1 defect investigation, 39 owner complaints filed with NHTSA.
The record
Recall campaigns1
Park it0stop driving until repaired
Investigations1
Owner complaints39
Complaints citing a crash3
Complaints citing a fire3
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
- 5AIR BAGS
- 5UNKNOWN OR OTHER
- 3STRUCTURE
- 2ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 2EXTERIOR LIGHTING
- 2FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
- 2SERVICE BRAKES
- 2POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
This page is about a model, not a car
Two 2005 LEXUS RXs 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.