2008 LEXUS IS — Complaint #1175308
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NHTSA Complaint about VISIBILITY:REARVIEW MIRRORS/DEVICES:INTERIOR filed April 16, 2015
NHTSA complaint #1175308 (ODI reference 10706174) concerns a 2008 LEXUS IS and was filed on April 16, 2015. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 7, 2014. The vehicle had 68,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Oklahoma based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as visibility:rearview mirrors/devices:interior, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same LEXUS IS cohort independently describe similar visibility:rearview mirrors/devices:interior failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2008 LEXUS IS shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
INTERIOR REAR VIEW MIRROR HAS BECOME DISCOLORED, CLOUDY WITH DARK MARKS THROUGHOUT MAKING IT DIFFICULT TO VISUALIZE OBJECTS IN IT. SEEMS TO BE A COMMON PROBLEM OCCURRING WITH THIS MODEL OF LEXUS. IT SHOULD BE COVERED UNDER WARRANTY BUT AT THIS TIME LEXUS HAS NOT ISSUED A RECALL OR EXTENDED WARRANTY. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1175308 |
| ODI Number | 10706174 |
| Date Filed | April 16, 2015 |
| Failure Date | July 7, 2014 |
| VIN | JTHBE262185 |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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