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2002 Lexus ES300 brakes problems

15 complaints about brakes have been filed for the 2002 Lexus ES300, which is 8% of all its NHTSA complaints. It is the 3rd most reported problem area for this model year.

At a glance

Complaints
15 8% of this year's complaints
Crashes and fires
5 and 0
Injuries and deaths
3 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

What the data shows

These complaints mention 5 crashes, 3 injuries.

What owners wrote

I had just left my doctor's office and gone to a parking structure where I had parked my car for the visit. I paid the parking charge, got back my validated ticket, and inserted the ticket in the gate-arm machine. The gate lifted, and I put my foot lightly on the accelerator to exit from the parking structure into the street. The car then picked up speed, well past what it should have picked up based on the light pressure I had put on the accelerator, and the brakes had no effect.

Reported at 60,000 miles, August 2009 CrashInjury

Steering wheel shimmy when brakes are applied. This started to occur approx at 22000 miles. The care now has approx 26000 miles. Found 2 other complaints while researching this problem. Odi #s 10034592 and 10037938. Is this something lexus corp is volunteering to fix for their consumers.

Reported at 22,000 miles, July 2004

Other problems reported for the 2002 Lexus ES300

Brakes problems in other years

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Brakes problems across all Lexus models