LEXUS HS 250h. Published by Transport Canada as 2017478 on 4 October 2017. System: Powertrain.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, the holding plate of the hybrid transaxle assembly may have been crimped improperly during assembly. This could result in the plate to wear, potentially causing irregular movement around the motor shaft, which could allow the plate to contact the electric motor coil and lead to a short circuit. …
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Lexus HS 250h in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Lexus HS 250h is named on 1 American notices. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2017478
- Recall date
- 4 October 2017
- Make
- Lexus
- Models
- HS 250h
- Model years
- 2010
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Powertrain
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 1,147
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, the holding plate of the hybrid transaxle assembly may have been crimped improperly during assembly. This could result in the plate to wear, potentially causing irregular movement around the motor shaft, which could allow the plate to contact the electric motor coil and lead to a short circuit. This would illuminate warning lights and warning messages in the instrument cluster, and cause the vehicle to enter a fail-safe mode resulting in reduced motive power. In some cases, the hybrid system could shut down, resulting in loss of motive power while the vehicle is in motion, which could increase the risk of a crash causing injury and/or property damage. Correction: Dealers will replace the hybrid transaxle assembly with a new one.
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 2017478.
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.
- 2017418 · 31 August 2017 · LX 570 · Airbag
- 2017363 · 20 July 2017 · Rav4, Avalon, Tundra · Electrical
- 2017324 · 29 June 2017 · Es 350 · Steering
- 2017007 · 9 January 2017 · Is 250, Is 350, Yaris · Airbag
- 2018014 · 9 January 2018 · Is F, Es 350, Yaris · Airbag
- 2018061 · 31 January 2018 · NX 300h, NX 200T, PRIUS · Airbag
- 2018091 · 14 February 2018 · GS F, RC F, LC 500 · Fuel System
- 2018155 · 3 April 2018 · Tacoma, Sienna, RX 350 · Brakes
The same system: Powertrain
823 notices in this register name Powertrain. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2017500 · 17 October 2017 · C Class · Powertrain
- 2017505 · 18 October 2017 · Sienna · Powertrain
- 2017517 · 24 October 2017 · F-150 · Powertrain
- 2017519 · 25 October 2017 · F-150 · Powertrain
- 2017443 · 15 September 2017 · 9700 · Powertrain
- 2017552 · 9 November 2017 · Civic · Powertrain
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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 638 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2017.
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