Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL | |||
| 07/18/2011 | 174900 | ||
| My car has a problem well known by manufacturers,as,harsh shift of automatictransaxles , or (ecm)code p0755.toyota sent service bulletins to dealers but i was never notified>now i have to repair my car at a cost of over $6000.toyota headquarters in california has refused to honour my repair,even though they honoured for california.reason being am out of warranty by the miles,which i have 175000,but im still in warranty by the years of 10 years. | |||
| 09/24/2010 | 84898 | ||
| My 2003 rav4 has always been very sluggish from a dead start and any kind of sudden acceleration but i knew that i would eventually reach the legal speed limit. driving 1 1/2 weeks ago, however, brought my attention to another, far more serious acceleration problem, far worse than just sluggishness. the suv was shifting out of gear automatically and i feared for my safety as i was in moving traffic and i was having trouble moving. i immediately decided to take it to the toyota dealer. luckily the dealership was close to where i was. they kept my car from approx. 3:30p.m. that friday until the following monday. at first, they thought it was the transmission and said they needed until monday to know for sure. i was told by the service rep. to not worry, that it may be far less expensive than i think. that monday, i got a call from the serviced rep that he had both good news and bad news. they found the problem - an ecu problem but that i was out of warranty and i would have to buy a new one. i told them to go ahead and install it as i couldn't see any alternative. the work was done and the final cost for the unit and labor was $1,300.00. i told the service rep that i felt shafted because the warranty expired after 80,000 and i had 84,000 miles at the time. further, i have the suv for just 7 years, not the limit of 8 years under the original warranty for the ecu. i went on the internet and discovered the ny times july, 2010 letter announcing many problems like mine with transmission damage as well and toyota would now cover it all. according to the letter, toyota had extended its warranty for the transmission to 150,000 miles and 10 years for the ecu ! i called the service rep and he said toyota headquarters rep was there and said i had no extended warranty. the service manager never returned my call. i finally called toyota headquarters and filed a complaint with them. i received a letter from a toyota manager offering me $1,000 to buy a new one. | |||
| 03/19/2003 | 116000 | ||
| Transmission unresponsive at times. hard shifting in reverse. hesitates at 1st gear... | |||
| 03/01/2010 | 95000 | 2 | |
| My problem is with my 2003 toyota rav 4. recently i was driving and the vehicle started to have some problems. first, the vehicle would not accelerate as i would be entering traffic, for example, on highways. a number of times it would start accelerating and then slow down or lose acceleration, this caused many anxious moments as often a car/truck would be coming up behind me. i would try to accelerate and step on the gas and the car would not really move until all of a sudden the gears would shift and the car would jump forward and suddenly start moving. this was scary on a number of occasions, especially when i had my son in the car. also, the car would automatically shift gears, or drop gears while driving. i would be in traffic and we would be moving along when suddenly the car would jump into gear and literally jump forward sometimes propelling the car forward a little. also while driving, both local roads and on highways the car would drop gears and suddenly slow down and then shift back into gear. the car has 95000 miles on it. we were told by a mechanic (who is not fixing the car) that toyota had advised that there is a problem with a computer-the ecm- in the rav 4, that will cause the car to jump and shift gears and possibly ruin the transmission. we have recently been informed by toyota that the ecm needs to be replaced and that the transmission in damaged and also needs to be replaced. *dt | |||
| 11/27/2008 | 81008 | 1 | |
| Toyota rav4 2003, two weeks ago i notice a shifting problem with the car, more so from a stop and go motion. i took the car to transmission expert, he said the transmission oil filter needs changing. a day later i noticed the same problem, took the car back. they told me they could not duplicate the problem. a week later i noticed the same problem, i took it back. now they told me the toyota rav4 have a known issue with the computer, that may at this point contributed to problem with the transmission, and if i wanted to fix the problem, i need to replaced the transmission and computer, which can run to thousand of dollars, i don't have that kind of money at this time. my question is if toyota know this to be an issue why not recall the cars and fix the problem? i have gone to carcomplaint.com and read many other car owners with the same problems. those owners paid alot money up front to try to get the problem fix, unfortunately, their cars had high mileage, and out warranty. something needs to be done, i am for whatever actions needs to be taken against toyota to fix the problem. daniel *tr | |||