Lexus Is 350, Is 250C, Is 250, Is F, Is 350C. Published by Transport Canada as 2013031 on 30 January 2013. System: Visual System.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, the wiper arm securing nuts could have been insufficiently tightened during assembly. If the movement of the wipers is restricted by an external load, such as heavy snow on the windshield, the wiper arms could slip and one or both wipers could become inoperative. If this occurs, driver visibility …
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2013031
- Recall date
- 30 January 2013
- Make
- Lexus
- Models
- Is 350, Is 250C, Is 250, Is F, Is 350C
- Model years
- 2006 to 2012
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Visual System
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 16,756
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, the wiper arm securing nuts could have been insufficiently tightened during assembly. If the movement of the wipers is restricted by an external load, such as heavy snow on the windshield, the wiper arms could slip and one or both wipers could become inoperative. If this occurs, driver visibility could be reduced, which could increase the risk of a crash causing injury and/or property damage. Correction: Dealers will clean the mating surface of the wiper arm and motor shaft and install improved wiper arm nuts.
The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 2013031.
Lexus elsewhere in this register
Lexus is named on 109 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 2013113 · 11 April 2013 · SC 430, Sequoia, Corolla · Airbag
- 2013193 · 5 June 2013 · HS 250h, PRIUS · Brakes
- 2013296 · 4 September 2013 · RX 400h, HIGHLANDER HYBRID · Other
- 2013297 · 4 September 2013 · Is 350, GS 350, Is 350c · Engine
- 2013327 · 25 September 2013 · RAV4, HS 250h · Suspension
- 2012253 · 1 August 2012 · RAV4, HS 250h · Suspension
- 2012192 · 29 June 2012 · RX 450h, RX 350 · Other
- 2014043 · 12 February 2014 · Rav4, Tacoma, RX 350 · Brakes
The same system: Visual System
424 notices in this register name Visual System. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2013026 · 28 January 2013 · Anthem, Aspire, Cornerstone · Visual System
- 2013156 · 8 May 2013 · 1500 · Visual System
- 2013260 · 31 July 2013 · Anthem, Aspire, Cornerstone · Visual System
- 2013275 · 9 August 2013 · Vah, VHD, VNL · Visual System
- 2012283 · 17 August 2012 · Sonic · Visual System
- 2012195 · 3 July 2012 · Aspire, Anthem, Cornerstone · Visual System
Reading this against the source
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This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Lexus Is 250c, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Lexus: 109 in the register, and 466 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2013.
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