Exactly July 1, 2010 Toyota announced a recall should return as much as 270 000 units of vehicles in Japan with 180,000 units have been marketed outside of Japan.

The problem is in part the engine valve springs that cause the engine vibrates and then stops working even in a state car is moving. The models are drawn is a Lexus and the Toyota Crown sedan.

After a day of the Lexus division of the United States (U.S.) also announced attract 138 000 units of vehicles due to the same problem. This incident happened sedan 3.5-liter V6 engine, 4.6 liter and 5.0 liter V8, which produced between July 2005 until August 2008.

Toyota's UK division Other talk again. They say, it takes seven to 22 hours to fix the problem and every customer will be given a replacement car during the service work is still done.

An official release said Toyota, the Lexus 270 000 units which had been scattered problems in the U.S. (138 000 units), Europe (15 000 units), Tnegah East (10,000 units), China (6000 units), Canada (4,000 units), and other areas (8000 units).

Now the U.S. Lexus division publishes a detailed list of Lexus models that potentially have a problem with the model year production period.

Here's a list of Lexus drawn:

  Production Model
- Lexus IS350 26 August 2005 - June 27, 2008
- Lexus GS350 24 July 2006 - July 25, 2008 and 14 July 2006 - July 25, 2008
- Lexus GS450h February 7, 2006 - July 8, 2008
- Lexus GS460 28 September 2007 - July 28, 2008
- Lexus LS460 10 August 2006 - August 4, 2008
- Lexus LS460L 23 August 2006 - August 4, 2008
- Lexus LS600h 4 April 2007 - July 29, 2008