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2017 LEXUS IS — Complaint #1984706

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NHTSA Complaint about ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:WIRING:INTERIOR/UNDER DASH filed April 18, 2024

NHTSA complaint #1984706 (ODI reference 11583922) concerns a 2017 LEXUS IS and was filed on April 18, 2024. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 15, 2024. The vehicle had 96,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Michigan based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as electrical system:wiring:interior/under dash, 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 electrical system:wiring:interior/under dash 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 2017 LEXUS IS shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2017 LEXUS IS
Component
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:WIRING:INTERIOR/UNDER DASH
State
Michigan
Mileage
96,000 mi

Complaint Description

The contact owns a 2017 Lexus IS 200t. The contact stated that while the vehicle was parked in the rain, water leaked into the dashboard causing the headlights to fail. The contact took the vehicle to an independent mechanic, and it was determined to be a manufacturing defect. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 96,000.

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 1984706
ODI Number 11583922
Date Filed April 18, 2024
Failure Date March 15, 2024
VIN JTHBA1D2XH5

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