Total Complaints
1 filings
LEXUS LEXUS · model year
1 NHTSA complaints for this specific cohort.
NHTSA overall rating
Not crash-tested
New Car Assessment Program
The 2000LEXUSLEXUS carries 1 consumer safety complaint in NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation database for this specific model-year cohort. Within that volume, owners reported 0 crashes, 0 fires, 0 injuries, and 0 fatalities. No NCAP 5-star crash-test rating is available for this model year in the federal database.
Component-level analysis is where model-year complaints become actionable: the top complaint category for the 2000 LEXUS is electrical system:ignition with 1 filings. Concentration in one or two component groups is the classic signature of a systemic defect; a flat distribution usually reflects normal aging, warranty complaints, or isolated build-plant variability.
NHTSA currently has 2 investigation files overlapping the 2000 LEXUS. Owners comparing this cohort against neighboring years should pair the counters above with the complaint-by-year trend on the parent model page — a spike in a single year often tracks to a platform refresh, a new transmission supplier, or an updated ECU calibration. Use the related-complaint feed below to read raw owner narratives before deciding whether any pattern here affects your specific use case.
Total Complaints
1 filings
Crashes Reported
0 reports
Source
NHTSA ODI
Federal complaints database
At or below the fleet median complaint volume.
| Component | Count |
|---|---|
| ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:IGNITION | 1 |
THIS IS NOT A FAILURE AS A PROBLEM. ON MAKING TURNS - L OR R - THE CAR WILL "STUMBLE". THAT IS IT WILL HESITATE. WHEN I ASKED ABOUT IT, THEY SAID IT IS BECAUSE LEXUS USES A "SENSOR" INSTEAD OF A WIRE FOR THE INJECTION CONTROL. THEY SAY LEXUS KNOWS OF IT BUT HAS DONE NOTHING, YET (NO FATALITIES YET?). I DO NOT FEEL IT IS SAFE. IT DOES NOT DO THIS ON A STRAIGHT AWAY ACCELERATION. HOWEVER, IF YOU START TO ACCELERATE THEN LET OF, THE CAR HAS A VERY NOTICABLE "JERK".
Data as of 2025. Sources: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) complaints database, NHTSA recall campaign API, NHTSA NCAP crash-test ratings, and NHTSA FARS for fatality cross-reference.
Read our methodology — how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.