mlkester

No, it has not been fixed. My dealer here still say there is nothing to be done. However, if I had to buy the car again, I would - it is a wonderful riding and handling, good looking car and the while the tranny problem is there, it is not something that I worry about nor would it cause me not to buy a lexus again. - Hope that helps

I too have experienced the tranny problem (accelleration hesitiation) on ES300. I took previous post advice of using NHTSA web site to register complaint. While they ask for a lot of detail, that is the only official way of registering this complaint. I noted, that while there are a large number of posts in this forum and others complaining about this problem, there are only less than 60 complaints (over 2 years) of this nature on the ES300 2003 model in the NHTSA database. I suggest that if you haven't already, is that you take the time to go to the web site and formally register your complaint there. Hopefully, the more voices that are heard, the more someone will sit up and take notice. If anyone has documented evidence of any injuries or accidents occurring because of this problem, that would be a much more powerful message to be heard at NHTSA. As far as I could tell browsing through the complaints, none have resulted in injury or crash which may be why there isn't much interest in resolving the problem or forcing toyota to resolve it.