Service bulletin L-SB-0006-18_Rev

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The communication, as NHTSA indexes it (as of 2026-10-19)
Type	Service bulletin
NHTSA id	10143935
Published by NHTSA	2018-08-20
Manufacturer's number	L-SB-0006-18_Rev
Manufacturer's date	2018-07-19
NHTSA component	ELECTRICAL SYSTEM

NHTSA's summary

TSB: REVISION NOTICE July 19, 2018 Rev1: ? Applicability has been updated to include 2015 ? 2017 model year RC350 vehicles. Any previous printed versions of this bulletin should be discarded. SUPERSESSION NOTICE The information contained in this bulletin supersedes Service Bulletin No. L-SB-0035-15. ? The entire bulletin has been updated. Service Bulletin No. L-SB-0035-15 is obsolete and any printed versions should be discarded. Some 2015 ? 2017 model year Lexus vehicles equipped with navigation (version older than V1##8940) may exhibit one or more of the following conditions: ? Unable to download Destination Assist ? Software update date does not display ? ?Calculating? message displays on the map screen without displaying street name and remaining distance ? Unable to guide a route on the Home screen ? Black display screen ? Bluetooth® disconnects intermittently. Some 2015 ? 2016 model year Lexus vehicles equipped with navigation (version older than V1##8910) may exhibit one or more of the following conditions: ? Inoperative Voice Recognition ? Same XM channel icon is used for different channels ? Loss of traffic information intermittently when using Lexus Enform ? Traffic incident mark ?!? on the map screen but no information on the traffic incident screen ? iPod® scroll is stopped changing by tune knob ? Inoperative Home button ? Reset occurs while making a turn off the highlighted route ? After correction of text in Quick Message15, the corrected text displays in Quick Message13 ? Navigation system reboots intermittently ? Navigation system reboots after receiving errant weather data ? Some screens with clock information display ?12:00? as ?0:00? S

The document

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Components

Electrical system

Vehicles listed
LEXUS CT HYBRID	2015 to 2017
LEXUS GS 200T	2016 to 2017
LEXUS GS 350	2015 to 2016
LEXUS GS HYBRID	2015
LEXUS IS 250	2015 to 2016
LEXUS IS 300	2015 to 2017
LEXUS IS 350	2015 to 2016
LEXUS NX	2015, 2016
LEXUS RC 200T	2015 to 2017
LEXUS RC 300	2016 to 2017
LEXUS RC 350	2015 to 2017
LEXUS RC F	2015 to 2017

Listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned: the document says which.

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