Hello, I have a Lexus RX 300 (2001). I bought it new in 2002 and has around 97000 miles. I have faithfully done all the maintenance at a dealership at the recommended schedule. Three weeks ago, my wife couldn’t get the car out of the garage because the reverse gear did not engage. I also tried, wit…

I have taken the car to the dealer for all routine scheduled maintenance and not skimped on anything. The dealer looked at the service record and said the same thing. Agreed on where not to go for another opinion. I have done all my maintenance including oil and filter change at one dealer and this…

Has the transmission fluid been changed, and when?

The 2001 Lexus RX300 maintenance schedule only lists transmission fluid change at 60,000 mile with a foot note; “Only if vehicle is operated primarily while towing a trailer or using a camper or car-top carrier.” So your ATF may have never been changed.

VDC Driver is spot-on about the manipulation of maintenance schedules to make vehicles look maintenance-free. Of course it gets worse with newer Toyotas - they don’t even recommend transmission fluid changes on many (if not all) of their vehicles anymore - they simply put in an entry in the schedul…

“Has the transmission fluid been changed, and when?” Well, apparently either the OP did not read my response fully, or he does not want to answer that very pertinent question.

Wow, I See What You Mean About The High Volume Of Transmission Failure Complaints In 2001 RX300 Models ! I was going to tell you that “recalls” are only for safety related problems and didn’t apply to your car, but many (most ?) of the complaints were problems that turned into traffic related occu…

Arun, Have You Registered A Complaint With NHTSA ? You Can Go To Their Site And File One. There’s Also A Means To View Complaints Specific To This Model-Year, Make And Model. It’s important for folks to do this. A recall effort needs some impetus in the form of actual customer experiences. This gov…

A couple of points. One is that the transmission fluid should be changed every 30k miles just in case this was not done and the first fluid change was at 89k miles. Two is just how was this fluid change done? The proper way is to change the filter, clean the pan, and then flush it. Some (maybe many…

After my last posting I called the dealership where I get my Lexus service done and asked them to print out the service done. Just referring to the Transmission fluid changes, one was done at 59443 miles and next at 89016. The records they gave me only go back to 40261 miles, so I am not sure at th…

2001 Lexus RX 300 Transmission problem

Maintenance/Repairs

Arun July 8, 2011, 10:24pm 8

Sorry, I was in meetings all day. Last time the transmission fluids were changed at 89016. I’ll check on the exact mileage of previous changes later. As I stated in my previous reply, all Lexus recommended scheduled maintenance were done and by that I mean including oil/filter, transmission fluids etc etc, (the whole dance and song as recommended by Lexus) were done. Nothing skimped.

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