Open safety recalls, the components owners report failing most often, crash-test results and running costs for the 2009 Lexus RX330, assembled from NHTSA and EPA records.
Everything on this page applies to the model as a whole. Run its VIN to decode that exact car, its engine, trim, assembly plant and factory equipment, alongside these records.
Open a VIN recordRecalls and complaints are filed against a specific model year, so figures differ from one year to the next even within a single generation. See every Lexus RX330 year.
No EPA fuel-economy match for this model. Naming may differ, or it predates EPA records.
NHTSA has no NCAP crash-test rating for this model year, which is common for older, low-volume and heavy-duty vehicles.
The parts named most often across 1 owner complaint filed with NHTSA for this make, model and year.
Complaints are self-reported and skew toward problems people find alarming, so read this as where to look rather than as a defect rate.
LETTER FROM SENATOR NELSON ON BEHALF OF CONSTITUENT RE 2005 RX330 LEXUS RECALL ISSUES NOT BE RESOLVED. *SMD THE CONSUMER STATED FIVE YEARS AGO, SHE NOTICED THE DASH AROUND THE PASSENGER AIR BAG WAS BEGINNING TO CRACK AND IMMEDIATELY BROUGHT THE ISSUE TO THE A FRIEND WHO AT THE TIME WAS A SERVICE WRITER FOR A LOCAL AUTOMOTIVE COMPANY. AFTER A FEW INQUIRES, HE WAS ABLE TO DETERMINE THERE HAD BEEN A NUMBER OF COMPLAINS LOGGED FOR EXACTLY THE SAME ISSUE AND LEXUS WAS LOOKING INTO THE PROBLEM. THE CONSUMER CONTACTED LEXUS, AND WAS ASSURED THE ISSUE WAS BEING TAKEN SERIOUSLY AND THAT OWNERS WOULD BE NOTIFIED AS SOON AS THEY MADE A DETERMINATION. THE NOTIFICATION CAME A FEW YEARS LATER AND SADLY, IT STATED THEY WERE AWARE OF THE DEFECTIVE PART BUT, THE CONSUMER HAD TO WAIT FOR AN OFFICIAL NOTICE TO COME IN THE MAIL WITH INSTRUCTIONS AS TO HOW TO PROCEED. THE NOTICE FINALLY ARRIVED AND WHEN THE CONSUMER CONTACTED LEXUS, SHE WAS PUT ON A WAITING LIST. THE CONSUMER STATED IT HAS BEEN ALMOST TWO YEARS AND ALTHOUGH SHE HAS BEEN ASSURED BY LEXUS THAT IT IS NOT A SAFETY ISSUE REGARDLESS OF HOW CLOSE IT IS TO THE AIR BAG THE DASH CONTINUED TO CRACK AND EXTENDED FROM THE PASSENGER SIDE, IN A SPIDER LIKE MANNER, ALL THE WAY TO THE DRIVER'S SIDE AND THE PASSENGER SIDE DASH NEAR THE AIR BAG WAS BEGINNING TO SHOW ORANGE/YELLOW FOAM LAYER WHICH HAD PREVIOUSLY HIDDEN. *JB
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