Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL | |||
| 11/02/2012 | 46900 | ||
| Driver entered parking garage, stopped, received parking ticket, arm raised on parking entrance machine, driver removed foot from brake, car began to accelerate. speed continuously incrased. driver pressed brakes twice - no response from brakers. driver swerved right to avoid car on left. car jumped 5 inch curve, knocked over free standing metal sign. car continued to accelerate. driver saw wall at left and aimed car at wall, intentionally. driver believed that crashing car was the only way to stop the car. driver aimed at and hit wall head on. air bags deployed. car judged total loss. driver suffered damaged right knee (broken tibia plateau, torn cartilage, damaged lower femur), broken nose, broken eye socket.. passenger suffered broken left hand and bruised ribs. emergency medial team took driver/passengers to hospital; released after 11 hours. total time of car acceleration incident described here - 4 to 5 seconds. impact speed estimated between 30 and 50 mph. | |||
| 02/07/2011 | 7000 | ||
| Had a problem with vehicle speed control when getting off free way on off ramp , tryed to stop using brake butt car was sill accelerating . had to apply brakes very hard to slow car down got close to end of ramp had to put car in neurtal and then saw the tack jump up 6000 rpm and back down to 700 rpm also at same time white smoke was coming out all sides of car. smoke could have been from brakes or high rpms on eng. cruise control was off. took car to dealer they found no problem. | |||