first-time lexus girl

No, it is not normal.

One of the symptoms of a failing battery in these vehicles is when your clock begins to reset itself to 12:00. Perhaps your vehicle now resetting the climate control temperature to 75 is also a sign of your battery beginning to fail.

Others may weigh in with additional suggestions, but you may want to have your battery tested in the meantime. Many shops will do it for free, especially if you smile and ask sweetly....

I didn't think it was normal but wanted to just check. Haven't had the clock reset yet. All of this started happening (the climate control resetting & the heated seats not working) about the same time after I got it back from repair shop from hitting a deer. I really do believe it's some how all related.....but don't know how .

Okay, one more question to all you other RX owners out there. This time it has to do with the climate control. Lately (within the last month or so) I've noticed that if I don't drive my car for a day or two the climate control resets itself to 75° when I start it next. As stated previously I live in Wisconsin and have kept the temperature on HOT for the last couple months. Thought it was odd that when I start it up it goes back to 75. Is this normal??

There is a very detailed diagnostic procedure for your car that will tell you exactly which seat heater component or components are defective. There is for my LS and there has to be for your RX.

Ask your repair shop if they followed the detailed seat heater diagnostic procedure for your car and to show you the results. Specifically, ask for the results of the continuity test on each of the four seat heater elements -- I don't think there is any way that all four elements could fail all at once. Why don't you ask them to tell you exactly how they tested the seat heater elements -- I'll bet they never even tested them.

The seat heaters in my 2000 LS are still working fine at 9 1/2 years -- sure were nice this morning in Sioux City, Iowa when it was 4° F. and the leather seats were rock hard after the car sat outside all night in a hotel parking lot.

I try to get them to explain things to me but they just talk to me like I'm an idiot because I'm a 26 year old female. I don't think there is any way all four elements could start failing at once either but I have no idea what else could be the problem. I wish I had them working again.....the week I got my car back and found out they werent' working it was about 4° also......damn!!!

It's true that the heating elements in the seats are often the culprit. The fact that yours are fading or intermittent now could be a coincidence and not wreck-related. If sufficient power is getting to the elements and they are not heating or barely heating, I would suspect them....

The heating elements in my wife's 2004 RX330 AWD became weak and intermittent by February 2007 with the vehicle still under the factory warranty. The dealership tried some workarounds that my wife deemed to be ineffective, so on a second trip to the service department for the same problem I required them to replace all of the elements under warranty. They did, problem solved. Nearly three years later, her RX330's seats will still cook you in a heartbeat (I hate the damn things)....

Your vehicle is pushing 9 years old. Those seat elements are not the best designed-and-engineered out there. I wouldn't be surprised if yours are indeed in the early stages of giving up the ghost. Your pattern certainly follows the pattern that my wife's seat elements did. The difference, unfortunately for you, is that her vehicle was still under warranty....

Did all of your wife's seats start acting up at once? That's what gets me......what's the chances ALL of them would start going bad at the same time??

Hello all, new to this. I just bought a 2001 RX 300 from an Acura dealership in early November of this year. Everything on the car worked perfect including the heated seats. About 3 weeks later I hit a deer and had repairs done by a local body shop. They did front end repairs and also had to replace the radiator and ac condenser. Ever since I got the car back, neither of the heated seats seemed to work. :( Took in and they checked fuse....it was good. Took it to a different shop and they did some testing and all wiring and relays and connections were good and said power was going to the seats so the elements must be shot (all four at once.....fishy <_< ). Was just driving this last weekend for an hour trip and turned both heaters on and both seemed to eventually warm up! On the way back they were also working.....so nice and toasty that we had to turn them off. Have turned on the drivers side the last couple days after that and nothing again. Out of curiosity turned on the passenger (while the driver had been on) and suddenly I started to feel something. Took it to Bergstrom Toyota today and they checked it out and told me the same thing.....wiring and relays are good so it must be the elements. I really don't think it's the elements because they sometimes work. PLEASE IF ANYONE CAN HELP!!!! Half of the reason I got this car was for the heated seats.....a Wisconsin girl needs her bum warm. Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated.