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Well, I should have started reading this forum much, much earlier....unfortunately, my tranny went out around 90K miles...no warranty of course and it cost me $7K to get it fixed at AAMCO. Lexus was going to charge $8-$10K !!! I still can't believe that a $40K car's tranny isn't covered for at least 100K miles!!!! Where do I sign up to get some recourse!!! -Bitter...party of one!

My RX is a 99 model and I just turned 120K! Had a transmission blow out which cost me $6K...kinda *BLEEP*ed about that now that I see others have recognized a problem.... Other than that....the car has been great !

I have a '99 RX300 with 95K miles on it. I haven't had any problems with the car until last month when my transmission went out!!!! I was first quoted $7500 from a Lexus dealer and after I picked myself off the floor, I had the car towed to a AAMCO. Apparently, there seems to be a shortage of 99 RX300 transmissions, because Lexus was even backordered! I got a rebuilt one for $5800.....OUCH!

My 99 Rx300's transmission also went out last week with only 95,000 miles on it! Lexus took one look at it and said $5800 for the parts $1700 for the labor! I said forget you!!! Brought it to an AAMCO dealer and they are going to take it apart to see what really is the problem. They think it is a torque converter problem, but won't know until they take it apart today. Their estimate comes in under $4000, BTW... Anyone else having this problem???? What gives? You spend that much for a car and would expect more....

I wish I purchased that extended warranty! My 99 RX300 with 95,000 miles just lost its tranny! Lexus' quote to fix the problem was going to cost me $7,800!!! After I picked myself off the ground, I got the car towed to an AAMCO dealer. The AAMCO dealer thinks it is a torque converter problem, but will eventually cost me around $3,600 instead. But, 20/20 hindsight, who would have thought my tranny would have gotten only 95,000 miles...