Bulletins
| Bulletin | Bulletin date | Replacement Bulletin | Item no. | Summary | Added |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE - STORAGE - TANK ASSEMBLY | |||||
| TC-11-006 | 04/08/2011 | 10038956 | Ready | 06/28/2011 | |
| TC-11-006 | 04/08/2011 | 10038956 | Toyota: 2009 rav4. the paint on the fuel tank assembly might have been improperly applied and start to peel. *rm | 06/28/2011 | |
| TSB-0046-10 | 01/28/2010 | 10033407 | Toyota: mil on; fuel in evap system. some vehicles may exhibit one or more of the following conditions due to fuel in the evap systems: mil on with the following dtcs stored: p043e, p043f, p2401, p2401, and p2419; intermittent rough idle | 08/16/2010 | |
| FUEL SYSTEM, OTHER - FUEL FILTER | |||||
| TSB-0046-10 | 01/28/2010 | 10033407 | Toyota: mil on; fuel in evap system. some vehicles may exhibit one or more of the following conditions due to fuel in the evap systems: mil on with the following dtcs stored: p043e, p043f, p2401, p2401, and p2419; intermittent rough idle | 08/16/2010 | |
Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE | |||
| 07/17/2010 | 11350 | ||
| On july 17, 2010 husband and i were driving our leased 2009 toyota rav4 on busy highway leading to and from the beach. we were in weekend traffic, moving a car length every 10 minutes. this should take us 5 minutes to drive on this road but this day it took us over 30 minutes! sitting in traffic, my husband's foot on brake, car makes grinding noise (like we had car in neutral revving the engine). car lunged forward hitting car in front of us, bounced back, lunged forward a 2nd time hitting car. realizing damage we turned car off. 911 called. took car immediately to dealership, informed them of mishap, showed them our slight damage to the car, got loaner car till 9/8/10 when investigating company took out black box. investigator ruled it driver error. we were made to remove car from their lot. husband nor i will drive car - it is a death trap (even though we took it to dealership when recalled in the spring). will not let anyone drive as passenger in this dangerous car. we continue to pay our $280 monthly payment. wrote to toyota president and toyota investigator. we would take a replacement (this is a leased car). we are deathly afraid of this car. we were not even moving and this car accelerated. now we are charged for this accident. i would not be able to go on if my husband should one day decide to drive this car and it accelerated while he was driving. he may be killed and take other peoples' lives with him! this was definitely sticky gas pedal problem with a toyota vehicle!!! | |||
| 04/05/2010 | 15023 | ||
| I was driving my 2009 toyota rav4 on monday april 5, 2010 and was stopped at a red light with my foot on the brake when i felt gas seemed to rev up. i felt like the car would have lurched forward had not my foot been on the brake. also today after moving forward my car maintain a 20 miles an hour speed without my pressing on the gas pedal, april 13th, 2010. | |||
| 12/13/2009 | 3800 | 1 | |
| Electronic power steering (eps) and fuel gauge problems: i bought my brand new 2009 toyota rav4 sport v6 4x2 on may 09, 2009 in houston texas. it was on dec. 13, 2009 that i was traveling on interstate highway i-10 from houston to new york city. i was in the middle lane of i-10 between exit 775a and 776a. i was traveling at 65 mph. suddenly, i heard a click from the dash board and the eps warning light came on and then i lost the electronic power steering, i felt my steering wheel so hard and could not turn it. i realized that i was in the very dangerous driving situation. i tried to calm down and put my foot firmly on the brake pedal and started slowing down my car. it took me almost ten minutes to move my car to the road shoulder and stopped. i called mr. zhu - a manager of sales department at my toyota dealership in houston texas immediately and reported this incident. he found me a phone number of the service department at fred haas toyota nearby and asked me to call them and get my car towed and checked. i called the number a couple of times however, nobody was there then. i tried to restart car engine for five times or more, i finally solved the eps problems. i called mr. zhou again, and told him that nobody was there answering my phone call. i asked him for the address of the fred haas toyota. i drove my sick car for 30 minutes very carefully to fred haas toyota; unfortunately, the service department was closed on sunday. i called mr. zhu again and told him about it. then i drove my car back to houston on interstate i-45, after 15 minutes driving, the same problems happened again... ...after that my fuel gauge was not read correctly, it showed only 1/2 fuel of my fuel tank after i filled it up. moving straight forward and making turns should not be an issue. i believe eps problems are more serious than the gas pedal problem, because this effects immediately and directly. i have been worrying about my safety driving my car since i experienced the dangers! *tr | |||
| 02/03/2010 | 9850 | 1 | |
| At about noon on 2/3/10- our 2009 toyota rav 4 sudden acceleration (or stuck gas pedal) caused me to rear end another car that was stopped at a red light. i was moving very slowly about 5-10mph, just gliding because the car in front of me had been stopped by the light and it was just starting to slowly move as the light turned green. i had my foot on the brake, and the rav 4 seemed to accelerate, causing me to press as hard as i could on the brakes, but i could not stop before hitting the car in front of me. it seemed as if the rav4 just accelerated by itself. the rav 4 has been towed to a repair facility. 4 hours before this happened, we had the rav 4 at our toyota dealer for inspection of the gas pedal and it was confirmed that it had one of the suspect assemblies. but they said they could not do anything, as they had no instructions or parts yet from toyota and said we would be notified when the time came. *tr | |||