Transmission Problems/failures with RX300 awd/fwd

I RECENTLY TOOK MY CAR IN AND FOUND OUT THAT MY TRANSMISSION HAD GONE OUT ONLY AFTER 89,000 MILES AND WOULD BE $5,000-$6,000 TO REPLACE NEW AND $3,500 FOR USED. AFTER RESEARCHING ABOUT THE LEXUS RX300 1999 MODEL I AM FINDING OUT THERE ARE SEVERAL PROBLEMS WITH THIS VEHICLES TRANSMISSION AND DRIVE TRAIN. I AM JUST WONDERING IF THIS PROBLEM OCCURS MORE THAN IT SHOULD WITH OTHERS WITH THIS PARTICULAR MODEL?

By tslex, March 2, 2006
585 replies

Renphilia, Sorry for the late reply. Thanks for the pictures. I should have mentioned to place them in a different thread. This thread is really about "Transmission Failures". Your car looks very good. I like that Taxi style side view mirror you have. I recall when I visited Japan that many of the cars had those mirrors, and almost every taxi had them. The RX300 has such a bad blind spot on the right rear of the car that these type mirrors would be very good. On your car