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2004 LEXUS SC430 — Complaint #1890767

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NHTSA Complaint about EQUIPMENT:ELECTRICAL:ANTENNA filed April 26, 2023

NHTSA complaint #1890767 (ODI reference 11519156) concerns a 2004 LEXUS SC430 and was filed on April 26, 2023. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 12, 2022. The vehicle had 159,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as equipment:electrical:antenna, 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 SC430 cohort independently describe similar equipment:electrical:antenna 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 2004 LEXUS SC430 shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2004 LEXUS SC430
Component
EQUIPMENT:ELECTRICAL:ANTENNA
State
California
Mileage
159,000 mi

Complaint Description

The contact owns a 2004 Lexus SC430. The contact stated while driving at 35 MPH, the radio was activated and there was an abnormal sound coming from the antenna. The contact noticed the antenna hanging off the holster and structuring the vehicle. The vehicle was not diagnosed. The dealer was not contacted. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 159,000.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1890767
ODI Number 11519156
Date Filed April 26, 2023
Failure Date November 12, 2022
VIN JTHFN48Y240

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.