Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| ELECTRONIC STABILITY CONTROL | |||
| 03/25/2010 | 2530 | ||
| Unintended acceleration o f toyota rav4 with fixed accelerator pedal within 50 miles of driving: 0n coming to traffic stop engine revved up to an audible high speed. to prevent a collision i applied intensive pressure to brake pedal while setting hand brake. car stlill seemed to be in forward roll mode, so i pushed gear shift from drive thru neutral,reverse and into park. engine speed returned to normal idle without further incident. i then drove 40 some miles to return home. on 3/27 i took car to the dealer to report that the accelerator pedal modification was a failure. i took delivery of this new car on 7/31/09. within about 300 driving miles of accumulated mileage, the 1st unintended acceleration occurred required added pressure to brake pedal & use of hand(emergency) brake to stop car & end abnormal engine speed. gear shift remained in drive. i had 3 to 4 such incidents within approx. 2400 miles comprising 40-50 trips, none longer than 100 miles. most of my driving is highway type, which does require intermittent but infrequent traffic stops. about 200 miles occurred in city-type conditions (frequent traffic stops) which were spread over about 12 of the aforesaid trips. all the ua situations occurred under the city-type conditions. i made several trips to the dealer to report the incidents and to obtain help. after the 1st one the service department checked the car & found nothing with the car's safe operability. i took the car back for service after the incident which was post safety recall pedal modification. the response was that this was the first that they had heard of a fix failure. toyota appears to cling to the sticky floor mat or simultaneous pressure to accelerator and brake pedals. | |||