Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| (PWS) | |||
| 04/02/2012 | 174000 | ||
| Recently, my 01 sequoia has been making a loud metal-like grinding noise coming from the front end of the car. sounded like it came from the engine or the tires. this caused the car to become unstable on the road and it was swerving, the vsc trac light and vsc off light flashed and beeped rapidly, and worst thing of all was that the brakes did not work either. the more i put pressure on the brakes, the more the metal grinding noise was intensified. felt like the engine was going to be dropped in the middle of the road or the tires were scraped to the bone. problem first happened in april, but thought it was nothing because as fast as it came out of nowhere, it quickly went away also. however, 2 weeks ago, my husband and my son were in my car and it happened again. this time it lasted longer and my husband had to try his best to control the vehicle because it was swerving and shaking so bad, and the loud grinding noise was back. we kept the car in the garage for a week in hopes that it will go away. today, 5/16/12, as i'm driving at 50mph it happened again.thankfully, there were no cars behind me, and just a truck a little ways ahead of me. because i was driving at a speed of 55mph, it was very difficult to stop. i put pressure on my brakes to no avail because the more i tried to push the brakes, the louder the noise was and the more the car was shaking. this is one of the most terrifying events in my life because i saw that i was approaching the back of the truck fast and i couldn't stop, i tried to pull to the side but there were no room because the sides were just guard rails. at that point, i put more pressure on my brakes because i didn't wanna be killed or hurt anyone else, so my car finally started to slowed down. the scariest part was that i could not brake. the more i applied my brakes, the louder the noise, and the more the car was shaking. | |||
| 05/10/2012 | 148100 | ||
| I was driving on the highway slowing down in traffic and the truck started skidding on it's own, the vsc trac light and trac off light both came on while the car with the skid mark indicator light flashed and beeped, there was a noise coming from under the truck that sounded like something was lose. i stopped at the store and when i got back in the truck, the lights were off but a few minutes later, going only about 30 mph, it did it again and was louder and shook worse. i was scared and just tried to get home. it was too late to take to toyota but i did talk to a mechanic and will go to toyota in the am. | |||