Lexus RC — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 118 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Fuel system24 (20.3%)Official recall records for this system: 16, covering model years 2015–2022.
• Seats14 (11.9%)
• Brakes12 (10.2%)
• Electrical system10 (8.5%)Official recall records for this system: 5, covering model years 2015–2017.
• Visibility (glass, wipers, mirrors)6 (5.1%)
• Driver-assistance systems4 (3.4%)

Other / uncategorized: 24 classifications (20.3%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

• Owner complaints (90 records, model years 2015–2025) are most frequently classified under: fuel system, seats and brakes.
• Manufacturer communications (2,027 records, model years 2015–2025) are most frequently classified under: equipment & accessories, electrical system and tires & wheels.

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

• 46reports included a mileage
• 19,031average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

1. 2015 312 records for 2015 312
2. 2016 245 records for 2016 245
3. 2017 213 records for 2017 213
4. 2018 193 records for 2018 193
5. 2019 167 records for 2019 167
6. 2020 124 records for 2020 124
7. 2021 96 records for 2021 96
8. 2022 72 records for 2022 72
9. 2023 50 records for 2023 50
10. 2024 41 records for 2024 41
11. 2025 22 records for 2025 22

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

• 6mention a crash
• 2mention a fire
• 2mention an injury

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

• Safety recalls NHTSA 26
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 2,027
• Investigations NHTSA 5
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 29
• Owner complaints NHTSA 90

Explore the underlying evidence records

Diagnostic codes found in evidence for this vehicle

These codes appear by explicit identifier in official records matched to this exact model and year.

• P0087 in 5 records · 2015–2019
• P0171 in 5 records · 2015–2019
• P013A in 1 record · 2022–2022

A code appearing in a record means the code was named in that document. It is not a diagnosis of this vehicle, not a fault this vehicle has, and not an indication of urgency. Diagnosis requires reading live data from the vehicle.