rbrown2769

There are something wrong with rx300 transmissions, I am not sure what it is but I have had two failures in the last few months. Lexus need to correct this problem...

I had my transmissions replaced in denver in August 2004 and it was a remanufactured transmission from Phoenix Remanufactured Transmissions, The mileage at replacement was 78073 miles. On my cross country trip from Denver to Florida over these holidays, my remanufactured transmission failed at 84,500 miles. I was in Georgia for 5 days before starting to Florida early one morning after about an hour I noticed the transmissions doing some funny shifiting and I had the vehicle towed back to Lexus in Atlanta and they said the transmission is toasted...Oh course Lexus wants $4150 to repair it. Phoenix remanufactured Transmission wants the transmissions shipped back to them before they will honor any warranty. The vehicle ran excellent from 78073 miles to this remanufactured transmission failure, The weird part is that it happened so suddenly, lucky I was only about 60 miles out of Atlanta and I left on the 23rd or I would miss being home for Xmas. The extended warranty covered the first repair at $2898 . but I am not sure about this situation. How can a vehicle like have such a serious transmission failures like this? I can say this, having the transmission replaced by a local transmission shop and travel out of state can cause some problems with an RX300 transmission failure. Lexus really needs to address this transmission problems....

I had my transmission replaced on 99 rx300 with about 69K on it. I had an extended warranty and the company required the transmission shop to disassembly and inspect the transmission for damaged. This seems to be common practice. IN my case the planetary gear and couple of other gears was chipped or broken and they did a replacement for me with an remanufactured unit. Apparently this planetary gear was over $500 or more just to replace. I think my total cost was around $2900.00.

I just replaced the transmission in my 99 RX300 and I had my fluid changed at 75,000 mile service interval. It failed at about 78,000. Once the fluid were worn, it would not move. So I would definitely change the fluid regularly at least every 30k as menitioned above.