A host of owners from across the U.S. are complaining about deformed mirror caps and trim, possibly caused by the sun
- What the heck? Several drivers of new Lexus SUVs are complaining of odd trim damage
- For one Arizona owner, it’s taken the form of the side mirrors showing unexplained heat damage
- Could all this allegedly melting trim be from the sun reflecting off a mirrored surface?
Buyers tend to enjoy it when they snag a hot deal on a new car — just maybe not quite this hot. Some owners of the tony new Lexus GX are sharing photos of their expensive SUVs apparently being damaged simply by sitting in the sun.
Closeups show a warped surface, almost melted as if the material was exposed to extreme heat for an extended period of time. A separate GX owner, from a different part of the country, chimed in on the original post with a tale of similar damage.
Because your writer has inexplicably chosen to live on a rock jutting out into the cold Atlantic Ocean, the long-range forecast for this location predicts precisely no sunshine at all in the next seven days, so there will be no opportunity to examine local GX models in person for similar damage. Instead, we’ll keep our ear to the ground through online media and update this post with follow-up information if required.
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