Lexus IS Owner

Thanks for all your expert advice, this issue has now been fixed. 

In fact I bought the car from a dealer from a different town (approx 150 miles away from where I live). Driving the car back to that dealer is probably not very practical. Hopefully the local Lexus will honour the warranty. 

Thank you all again for your wonderful and informative responses. 

I have booked in with the local Lexus centre. Any idea if the warranty covers the cost of fixing the problem (both labour and parts and any additional costs)?

I had to apply extra power to move the gear leaver out of the P. This is in line with what wharfhouse said above. I have always been uncomfortable applying extra force to move the gear lever out of P for the reasons mentioned above.

The dealer did issue a fresh MOT with no advisory notices. This MOT was carried out few days before the sale of the vehicle. I am really surprised MOT did not highlight this obvious issue. Wonder if dealers are serious about the MOT?

Considering I bought the vehicle only on 25th February 2019, what are my options?

Thank you all and I highly appreciate your time and effort responding to my queries and taking time to test against your car.

Thanks again for the responses. Here is a video showing the car moving while foot brake is completely engaged. I believe the car should not move when the foot brake is applied regardless of the the gear selector in N or P position.

Thanks guys for your responses. I will contact the dealer, let me see what he offers.

I recently bought a Lexus IS 300h 2014 model and wondering something is wrong with the parking brake.

My driveway is at an inclination, when I park in my driveway, I shift the lever to 'P' position and engage the foot parking brake. but the car moves by few inches despite of this when I take my foot off the brake pedal which lead me to think that foot parking brake is not being effective. I did a test to confirm my suspicion. This time, I engaged the foot parking brake, then shifted the lever to 'N' (neutral) and took my foot off the brake pedal and the car started rolling as soon as I lifted my foot off the brake pedal.

Previous to buying IS, I was using a manual car and that car did not roll over when in neutral gear with the parking brake (or handbrake) engaged. SO I definitely think something is wrong with the IS.

Before I send the car to a specialist, I want to hear from other users of IS and understand how they solved this problem.

As I bought this car from a Lexus dealer, it is covered by 12 months warranty. And at this moment I am assuming that the warranty covers this issue with the foot brake.