WALTER BANKSTON

iragosta, I got you email on your request for the dealer bulletin and have to get it scanned which will take lil work (for you) and I would like the info you have as i pick up my es330 Friday. Mr. big at Lexus isn’t returning my calls, three in three days. Think we need to be prepared for "the car drives as designed" statement.

THANKS ALL, I'M NOT CRAZY AFTER ALL. I WILL LET YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IN A WEEK. THAT IS WHEN LEXUS GIVE RETURNS MY CAR AND I TURN IN THE LOANER. PS. THE LOANER IS A ES330 WITH THE SAME MILES AS MINE (1500) AND I HAVE DRIVEN 200+ MILES WITH NO ISSUES???????????

MY LAST POST WAS DELETED. I TO AM HAVING HESITATION AND SHIFTING ISSUES. BOUGHT A ES330 2 MONTHS AGO AND HAD IT TAKEN TO THE LEXUS DEALER FOUR TIMES NOW. THE KEY WORD THEY USE IS "THE CAR IS OPERATING AS DESIGNED". THIS COMMENT CAN BE READ THROUGHOUT POSTS OVER THE NET AS IT RELATES TO HESITATION AND SHIFTING. WE LOVE OUR 330 AND WILL STRUGGLE TO KEEP IT AS WE DON'T HAVE MONEY TO BUY ANOTHER CAR OR TO UPGRADE. TO THE POINT, ARE CAR IS BEING DRIVEN BY A BAY AREA (NO NAMES AS THIS IS WHY MY LAST POST WAS DELETED) LEXUS DEALER IS TAKING IT HOME IN AN ATTEMPT TO EXPERIENCE THE SAME THING I DO. CALLED HIM YESTERDAY TO LEARN THE CAR WAS "OPERATING AS DESIGNED" I THEN COULD NOT BELIEVE MY EARS. THE SAME WORDS FROM ALL THE POSTS I HAVE READ. I COULDNT HOLD BACK AND TOLD HIM THAT THESE WERE THE WORDS USED BY ALL LEXUS DEALERS. NOTHING WAS SAID OTHER THAN HE WOULD KEEP MY CAR FOR A WEEK MORE. NOTE; I HAVE IN RETURN BEEN USING A ES330 LOANER, SAME COLOR SAME MILES ON THE ODOM 1500. NO SHIFTING PROBLEMS YET AND I HAVE PUT (WITH THEIR OK 300 MILES ON THIS LOANER. ME AND THE WIFE WOULD THINK WE ARE CRAZY IF NOT FOR THE OTHER POSTS ON THIS BOARD AND OTHERS. THANKS, WHAT DO WE DO............... :cries:

Add me to your list of complaints. My husband and I have bought our 3rd Lexus and now own a ES330, which we now have 1500 miles on. We have taken this beautiful car back to the dealer three times for transmission problems described in posts on this board. I also have described to my husband that I feel like a deer in the headlight of on-coming cars and experience the same shifting problems. Fremont Magnussen's Lexus (Calif.)has had our 330 for four days now, as their top mechanic is taking it home with him in an attempt to experience our complaints of hesitation and shifting issues. We called him yesterday to learn he felt the car was doing good with no problems. We were upset to hear this as we spent big money for this car and wanted some type of fix. Frustrated, we checked the web and found this site. We were relieved to find we were not alone or crazy. We want to keep our car as we are proud of it, but are also disappointed. PLEASE WHAT DO WE DO. I am starting to wonder if Lexus knows we have bought three cars from them (same dealer, es300 is300 and the es330) in a year and did something to the car to have us upgrade to a GS. This sounds suspicious and bad I know and I'm sorry to put that out there. I would rather believe the latter and do. Info we found from Toyota #TC005-03 "Technical Service Information Bulletin" (not for general public) This addresses ATM shifting issues with the 2004 Rx330. So Lexus obviously knows somethings not right. Please help us. The dealer said that they could do what is known as "burn the cars computer". They said that this may work for us as a last result. Magnussen's Lexus also said that the car trys to adjust to each driver aswell. I drive the car with slow starts and stops and my husband thinks its his police car.... no he doesn't drive like at work but is rougher than I. We now (07/31/2004) are using a 2004 loaner ES330.....no problems with the tranny on this car and have driven it 100 miles. :cries: Can reach me at fremontrobocop@yahoo.com