Stinky Pete

GX Remorse, I'm sorry to here you have had problems with your GX. My wife and I agree that this is the best car we have owned EVER and that this is the first of hopefully a long relationship with Lexus (she wants a SC! :) ) I feel your pain though when it comes to problems with a manufacturer and then going thru "arbitration". Fifteen years ago, my wife and I experienced the same senario with the one who makes "Ram Tough" vehicles. We went through a long three year legal battle which by the end of we discovered that our lawyer was on the manufacturer's payroll and the judge (who was elected) had her campaign financed by one of the local "Ram Tough" delereships. The judge declared the case a "draw" and we ended-up with the manufacturer reimbursing our legal fees (about $1400) and we kept the piece of "Ram Tough" junk! Oh... we also had to sign a statement that IF we EVER bought another vehicle from this manufacturer (no matter what the brand), we could NOT file a lemon law claim against them. Needless to say, we have never even considered owning a "Ram Tough" vehicle since. In the words of "our" lawyer, "well, there are millions of other suckers out there who will buy them." :o But back to our GX... Actually, the clunk in our GX is not that bad, it only happens about one in every 20-25 brake/accelerate cycles. But, when it happens with Mom in the car, that's completly unaceptable!! ;)

Hey folks! My wife and I bought a Certified 2004 GX in Sept 2006 and we LOVE it!! :D We had noticed the "clunk", but it didn 't seem too bad so we decided to ignore it. That is until my mom was riding with us and at the first stop sign, the "clunk" happened and she asked about it. Since then several passengers have asked us about it and wondered why we weren't going to persue a fix. So, here we are in Jan of 2007 and we visited our local dealer for some unrelated service. I asked about the "clunk" issue and the service rep said that they were due to receive the parts within the next three weeks. He wrote-up a service request for our vehicle and said that they would call us when the parts had arrived. By the time we got home, I had received an e-mail from the parts department confirming the special order. I will post updates as I get them. ;)