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Model years to avoid

Lexus ES

What it says about you

Opinion

Being unbothered is the highest form of luxury, and this is the correct conclusion. It is silent. Nothing has gone wrong. It will be kept eleven years.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

22 model years on record, 210 complaints filed. That is too few to measure against. Every finding on this site compares a year with the same model's other years, and that needs about 40 complaints in a year and 4 years to compare it with. This nameplate has 1. So nothing is claimed either way — the recalls and ratings below are the record, and they are the whole record.

The years to look at closely: 2019 (almost). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

Every year

  1. 2026 nothing on record 0 complaints
  2. 2025 1 recall 12 complaints
  3. 2024 2 recalls 9 complaints
  4. 2023 2 recalls 22 complaints
  5. 2022 nothing on record 21 complaints
  6. 2021 1 recall 35 complaints
  7. 2020 1 recall 24 complaints
  8. 2019 almost 62 complaints
  9. 2018 0 recalls 5 complaints
  10. 2017 0 recalls 2 complaints
  11. 2016 0 recalls 9 complaints
  12. 2015 0 recalls 5 complaints
  13. 2014 0 recalls 4 complaints
  14. 2013 nothing on record 0 complaints
  15. 2012 nothing on record 0 complaints
  16. 2011 nothing on record 0 complaints
  17. 2010 nothing on record 0 complaints
  18. 2009 nothing on record 0 complaints
  19. 2008 nothing on record 0 complaints
  20. 2007 nothing on record 0 complaints
  21. 2006 nothing on record 0 complaints
  22. 2005 nothing on record 0 complaints

What does a Lexus ES say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.