Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL | |||
| 08/25/2011 | 36416 | ||
| Sudden unintended acceleration on august 25th 2011 at approximately 1:00 pm, my dad was driving to garvey ranch park located at (781 s orange ave, monterey park, ca 91755) as part of his daily routine. he had already pulled into the parking lot and was getting ready to park his car facing north bound. all of a sudden the car accelerated out of nowhere and hoped the parking curb still facing northbound. in order to avoid any causalities and prevent hitting any of the children near the playground, he was able to steer the car and made a u-turn at about 150 degrees. at this point he was facing south bound of the parking lot and the car continued to accelerate at high speeds. his car then hopped the curb on the south side of the parking lot. once the car hopped the parking curb on the south side, it continued to hop over a couple of raised concrete blocks that delineate a path onto the hillside just south of the parking lot. due to the steepness of the hill, it prevented the car from going any further and the car crashed in between two trees located on the hillside. we had already taken the car to longo toyota due to the acceleration recall back on march 13 2010. i couldn't believe the car still had mechanical issues after we had it serviced it for the recall and was glad that my dad did not sustain a very serious injury. the car is available for inspection if an nhtsa official would like to inspect the car. | |||
| 06/23/2010 | 60000 | ||
| I have a toyota hybrid 07 , i turned on car made horrible load noise the speedometer went up to 100 mph in seconds the two front tires were shacking horribly like the car wanted to take off the car keep making laud noise i honestly though the car was going to blow up . i thank god that i wasn't in road when it happened , am very afraid to get into car there is no way i will be able to drive that car again i value my life too much and its sad that toyota just thinks about money and not lives of people . i say this because they said well bring it in if it happens again yeah right and what if it does but am dead , or credicly injured. | |||
| 06/04/2010 | |||
| My car was in the recall list and they have changed the bad piece 3 times and im still having problems and i called toyota and they told me they could not do anything about it. any way you could help call 363-7053 | |||
| 02/03/2010 | |||
| While driving my car to work it would accelerate. my car had two recalls. the dealership had my car during most of the month of february. they called me and indicated the car was repaired. drove car to work and car accelerated again. took car back to dealership and they put in a new drive shaft. at that point i was too scared to get back in car. i had no confidence that the problem was fixed and i don't really think they knew what was wrong with the car as it was still unsafe to drive. i could not get back in that car nor could i afford to go to another dealership to purchase a new one. i qualified for their 0% financing on a 2010 new production with no recall and free two year maintenance agreement. i felt trapped with no choice but to buy the car as i had put $11,000 on the 2007 which was a loss. i have been driving over 30 years and never had an accident or ticket until i bought this car. | |||
| 09/17/2009 | |||
| I own a 2007 toyota camry i had a accident in the vehicle on september 17, 2009 in jackson, tn. i told the officers and the insurance company that i tried to stop but was unable to i also told them that something was wrong it would not stop until i went into a ditch. two days later toyota did a recall on the floor mats. i found out about the floor mats this year in febuary 2010. i contacted toyota and found out that they had the wrong name as being the owner and said they would get me the recall information mailed to my home. the company did send me the information i called the local toyota dealersip her and they told me i could bring my vehicle in. it states on the papers that toyota will replace the pedal with a new one if i wanted to wait for it in and that they would replace the older all weather floor mats and clean the carpet. this did not happen for me i now have the same dirty floor that i had before i took it to them and now i'm riding in a rental car because since they put the reinforcement bar on my car the check engine light has come on and i'm afraid even more to drive the car i took it to the dealership and they told corporate that i would have to pay them to check out the car and my manual says that if this light comes on that it is the electronic throttle, the dealership told me it could be up to 200 different things and that unless i pay for this they would not do anything to assist me i can write a letter to the claims department but there is no gurantee that they will reimburse me for my rental or for fixing the vehicle,also that my floor mats are now aftermarket mats and the will not do anything to them either nor my floor please do something they are not fixing these vehicles and are not standing by there word i can not afford to pay anymore money to get this vehicle fix and detailed and i have no other means of transportation.the people at corporate say they are sticking by the dealership and i need to pay to get this fixed! | |||
| 09/04/2009 | 46000 | 1 | |
| My toyota camry 2007 had a unintended acceleration that causes my car crashed to the car infront me. toyota dealer did something in the carpet and acceleration pedal yesterday. i am still afraid to drive this car for i strongly believed that the sensor or the electronically throttle activate the sudden unintended acceleration of my car. i also believed that toyota are not being honest in finding a solution to these problems. i don't want to experience again the death acceleration that may occur while driving this car. everything toyota did to my car is just bandaid solution and not solving the main cause of the accident whichis the electronic throttle as in happened to all other high speed that cannot be stopped by the driver, and caused deaths to all passenger. i do not want to be in their seats and experienced what they went through living or dead. your question below of were there any deaths or injuries? is too vague. i do not want to experience death while driving toyota. *tr | |||
| 06/14/2009 | 24000 | ||
| Tl*the contact owns a 2007 rav4. the contact stated that the gasoline mileage and the electrical system has malfunctioned since the vehicle was purchased. the right rear wheel sensor that controls the stability, traction, and four wheel drive functions have also failed and caused the warning light to illuminate on the dashboard. the dealer replaced the rear wheel sensor twice and within 48 hours the failure recurred. the third time the rear wheel sensor malfunctioned, the dealer diagnosed the failure for 5 to 6 weeks. the dealer recently replaced the rear wheel sensor and the electric control module and vehicle is functioning normally. the vin was unavailable. the failure mileage was 24,000. | |||
| 01/26/2010 | 55346 | 1 | |
| On 26th jan, on the way back home in the evening i was on 105 fwy headed east. the time was around 7:50 pm. the traffic was there since it was a rainy day. i tried to apply brakes on my toyota camry 2007 xle model. i didn't experience the brakes taking effect and the car hit another vehicle at around 20 - 25 miles/hr speed. now the car is being repaired as we speak. it might take about 10 days to fix it i was told. *tr | |||