Saturday, August 8, 2026
RecallGazette

Vehicle problems, recalls & safety intelligence

Lexus GS 350 2013technical service bulletin

Bulletin L-SB-0009-13 · NHTSA communication 10133848 · issued Feb 21, 2013

Technical service bulletin
communication type
Electrical System
component
2013
model years
5
vehicle entries

Official summary

Some 2013 model year Lexus vehicles may exhibit one or more of the following conditions: Bluetooth® is inoperative where the Phone and Bluetooth® menu icons are grayed out and cannot be accessed. Sirius XM Traffic information is slow to update. Display corruption. Turn list display is slow. Navigation voice recognition commands are unresponsive when the map screen is not displayed A navigation system firmware update has been developed to address these conditions.

What a TSB means. Technical service bulletins are repair guidance manufacturers send to dealers — they are not recalls, and repairs are not automatically free (warranty extensions are an exception worth checking). The full document is available via NHTSA’s vehicle lookup.