Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| POWER TRAIN | |||
| 11/19/2010 | 142609 | ||
| I pulled out from a private parking lot onto a busy highway. as i accelerated, the car make a noise and everything stopped. there were no warning lights.-nothing. i managed to get the car over to the right and turn immediately where it into a gas station that allowed the car to coast downhill to where it stopped. the car was towed to the toyota dealership. on the 2nd day, we were told the transmission and the inverter converter-hybrid system both went out. although they told us this should not happen - one or the other can go out but not both. it would cost 14,000 dollars to fix. now they tell us we can sell our nice 2006 car for scrap at auction. | |||
| 02/28/2010 | 139000 | ||
| (2006 toyota highlander hybrid) pulling onto 4 lane (2 lanes divided by concrete barrier) highway mering into 55+ mph traffic. accellerated to about 30-35 mph and heard a clunk. car started to coast without any accleration (gasoline engine still running). unfortuantely this was at a complicated intersection where several roads intersect without room for a shoulder. i was able to drift to the right most lane, where entering traffic from interesecting road used. i was left standed without any control over forward movement. the repair cost is in excess of $18,000. apparent need for a complete replacement of the hybrid system (inverter and drive system). the blue book value might be in the $15-16,000 range. | |||
| POWER TRAIN - AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION | |||
| 01/15/2006 | 350 | 1 | |
| We bought a new 2006 toyota highlander hybrid in 2005 and, from time to time since we bought it, the accelerator pedal kind of sticks or surges in certain driving conditions. when you try to reduce speed by taking your foot off the gas pedal. it sometimes does not immediately respond, it takes a few seconds to reduce speed and sometimes actually surges a little, which it also does sometimes when you are driving at a consistent speed. i thought it had to do with the hybrid feature and just sort of learned to be sensitive to it and hit the brakes if it needed it, but this sounds like what is going on with other models subject to the recall and, as our model is not subject to the recall, i am concerned about it. please advise. *tr | |||