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Originally Posted by chrisny
Someone told me this when I got my first BMW, (I'm paraphrasing but this was the gist), you simply can't ask for a racecar and expect it to be as reliable as an economy car. This is obviously a bit exaggerated on both ends, most BMW's aren't racecars and a Lexus isn't an economy car. But the point remains the same and it's this simple: "you have to pay to play." Yes, a BMW is not as reliable as a microwave, a refrigerator, a Honda, or a Lexus. But, most are surely more fun to drive. And BMW's are also not exactly unreliable, they're just not the MOST reliable.
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Yes Lexus are reliable but, in common with most modern cars, when things go wrong they tend to go wrong in a BIG way.
For example, about 6 months ago, my RX had an electric motor failure. I was turning off a road and went to go and had no go just a grinding noise instead. Fortunately for me I was able to get off the road into my car park at work so no harm done but it would have been a different matter if the electric motor had quit while on the motorway at speed.
In total it required about £3000 worth of parts, about £2000 worth of labour and 4 weeks to fix. It had a whole new transaxle assembly, which meant the engine had to be removed, and various other drivetrain components like bearings replaced which surprised me on a 3 1/2 year old fully serviced vehicle with only 52k miles on the clock.
Fortunately for me it was a fully maintained contract hire vehicle so was repaired at no cost to me.
Now this is probably a one off, but a very expensive one off, but all cars as they get more and more complex run the risk of ever more expensive failures.