2011 LEXUS IS — Complaint #1619421
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NHTSA Complaint about STRUCTURE:BODY filed November 8, 2019
NHTSA complaint #1619421 (ODI reference 11279094) concerns a 2011 LEXUS IS and was filed on November 8, 2019. The owner reports the failure occurred on October 9, 2019. The report was geocoded to Texas based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as structure:body, 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 structure:body 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 2011 LEXUS IS shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
THE DOOR PANELS AND DASH BOARD GETS STICKY AND MELT OVER THE YEARS AND THE SEATS STARTS TO TEAR AND BECOME LOOSE
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1619421 |
| ODI Number | 11279094 |
| Date Filed | November 8, 2019 |
| Failure Date | October 9, 2019 |
| VIN | JTHBF5C29B5 |
Similar STRUCTURE:BODY Complaints for 2011 LEXUS IS
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
Read our methodology — how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.