Excessive interior Roof Heat in Lexus LX700h – Anyone Else Experiencing This? (4 Viewers)

[PatrickBateman]

Hey everyone,

This has been really bothering me. I noticed that the roof area gets extremely hot, even when the AC is running. You can feel the heat radiating down, and the cabin doesn’t seem to cool down quick enough because of it.

Never had this issue in my 200 series.

It feels like the insulation in the roof might not be adequate, or maybe there’s some design issue with heat absorption. Has anyone else run into this problem? If so, how did you deal with it?

I have ceramic tint on all my windows, including the windshield. I got my sunroof tinted yesterday (thinking it would help) but seems the same. Just annoying

 

[eNx]

What is the outside temp?

 

[PatrickBateman]

What is the outside temp?

80’s-90’s

 

[CJF]

And what color is your rig?

Edit: Earth?

 

[vipergrhd]

Do you have an IR temp. gun?

 

[PatrickBateman]

And what color is your rig?

Edit: Earth?

It is Earth

 

[PatrickBateman]

Do you have an IR temp. gun?

Negative but my wife and daughter have Tesla’s with the huge glass roofs and it feels very similar how the heat radiates down.

 

[Oakleyguy]

Haven't noticed that here in temps well over 100 with high solar load.

I will say though that climate concierge is too gentle and I have to keep my temp set point 1-2deg lower than I did in the 200. I experienced this in my GX as well.

 

[PatrickBateman]

Haven't noticed that here in temps well over 100 with high solar load.

I will say though that climate concierge is too gentle and I have to keep my temp set point 1-2deg lower than I did in the 200. I experienced this in my GX as well.

If I touch the sunroof shade and around the sunroof it is very very warm.

Could you do a touch test the next time you’re parked outside in the sun? If you’re not getting heat like mine, I wonder how Lexus would even deal with this….