Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL | |||
| 11/09/2011 | |||
| I was making a right hand turn into a parking spot. at the moment right before you straighten the vehicle wheel to park, the car suddenly revved up for about 1 to 2 seconds causing the vehicle to accelerate forward. the vehicle went over the curve and hit the building in front of the parking spot. | |||
| 02/10/2010 | 210000 | ||
| Tl*the contact owns a 1997 toyota 4runner. the contact was driving approximately 35 mph, approaching a stop sign. while depressing the brake pedal the vehicle surged forward. an opposing vehicle crashed into the front driver side causing the vehicle to enter the median and roll over. the driver involved in the roll over crash was air lifted to a hospital. a police report was filed. the vehicle was towed to an authorized dealer. the vehicle was completely destroyed. the failure mileage was 210,000. | |||
| 06/09/2009 | 107038 | ||
| Tl*the contact owns a 1997 toyota 4runner. while driving approximately 70 mph, the vehicle suddenly accelerated on its own up to 100 mph. he began shifting from neutral gear to drive and vice versa to slow the vehicle down. he took the vehicle to the dealer who stated that an after market alarm box was tucked behind the pedal. the dealer stated that the box may have caused the failure. another dealer told her that a cable needed to be replaced. he called the manufacturer but received no assistance. the vehicle had not been repaired when the complaint was filed. the current mileage was approximately 108,000. the failure mileage was 107,038. | |||
| 08/09/2004 | 95000 | 1 | |
| 1n august of 2004 i owned a 1997 toytoa 4 runner. it accelerated on its own to 95 miles per hour. i had it towed to a toytoa dealership after 2months there they told me it was caused by amlfunction ib the cruise control even though the cruise control was not on the repair cost me over 15oo dollars. the same thing happened again 6 months latter i then brrought it to a local service station where the mechanic stated that it was again caused by a malfunction of the cruise control. it said the simple answer was to disengage the cruise control which cost me 40 dollars and i never had this problem again. i wrote to toytoa but there never answered me. *tr | |||
| 07/01/2007 | 1 | ||
| My car was racing when i was at a stop light. also, i was going through my gas pretty quickly. i brought it to the dealer and they replaced the electronics - they said i had to have this replaced, i could not drive off the lot because it was so dangerous. i no longer have this car but i wanted to report this because it is a toyota 4 runner and they have not been recalled. vin number attached for maintenance lookup. *tr | |||