wrcharlesworth

Looks like I'm the latest to suffer from this fault. I have a 2 year old RX400H. Did a thousand miles or so over the summer. It was parked up for a week last week while I was away on work. On my return the battery was almost completely dead - just enough to open the doors thank goodness but otherwise nothing. AA man (Lexus Roadside assistance) jump started it and said the battery looked faulty. I've had it replaced under warranty. When I was younger and poorer I had old bangers that needed to be jump started from time to time. I don't expect a £40,000 plus two-year old car to need jump starting in 2010. I've been a loyal Lexus customer for ages now but I am starting to wonder about reliability. (The power steering on my previous RX400H had to be replaced after two years. It's no joke trying to manoeuvre one without power steering as you can imagine.) I have seen lots of helpful ideas on here about how to prevent a battery discharge occurring again but I return to the £40,000 point. I don't think it should be up to me to devise clever tricks involving the cigarette lighter. Have they acknowledged that this is a problem or are they keeping their heads down?