Is the Nikon D90 kit lens (18-105mm) to blame for the F- error?

I'm about to buy my first DSLR and I'm leaning towards the Nikon D90. However, I've seen complaints all over the internet that it develops the "F-- error" rather easily, making it unusable until fixing this problem. Is this error because of the kit lens, or is the camera itself to blame? Also, if the problem is the kit lens and not the camera, which lenses work with the D90 without having this error appear? Any feedback would be great.

I don't know about that specific lens. I've seen it once on my D90 with the 35mm f1.8, but I cleaned the lens contacts and the contacts in the body with a q-tip and a bit of rubbing alcohol, and it went away forever.

Truth is, the D90 has been Nikon's most popular camera for years. The chances are very, very slim that your's will be defective. If you are worried it is the lens,. Buy it body only (I would do that anyways)

"However, I've seen complaints all over the internet that it develops the "F-- error" rather easily, making it unusable until fixing this problem."

The error is actually quite rare. You just have to remember that probably millions of those cameras have been sold since it was introduced, and mostly only those people who got the error will complain online.

And no, it is not because of the camera lens.

The problem is you did not read your user manual.

There's no "F-- error", it is the fEE error is based upon your lens not being set up correctly.

The lens aperture ring is not set to its highest aperture. See page 255 of the user manual.

The problem is in the communication between the camera and the lens. It's a rare problem distorted by the nature of the internet. I would not hesitate to buy one because of that. IF it happens and cleaning contacts is not enough then nikon iwll fix this under warranty. The error does seem to occur with just the 18-105

This is probably due to dirty contacts on the lens or body. I have seen this issue on one D90 using an 18-105 lens and two D40 using the 18-55 lens. In my experience, problems have not occurred using the 50 f/1.8 or 35 f/1.8 lenses, so I'm imagining that the issue is with dirty or poorly designed contacts on the kit lenses. Usually, rotating the lens back and forth without actuating the lens release is enough to clean the contacts.