Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRAKES | |||
| 12/19/2009 | 45000 | ||
| The abs light would start coming on from time to time. it would stay on for days at a time (during which time i had no abs), then go off for no reason. the brake pedal started to shudder and vibrate whether or not i was touching it. if it happened to be vibrating while i was actually braking, brake power would be heavily reduced. this has caused me to have to swerve out of the way several times so i don't rear-end someone. this has happened every winter since 2009, and has not gone off since last winter (2011/2012). many other yaris owners have complained of this same problem happening. many attribute it to one or both of the rear wheel sensors. some have had this replaced for many hundreds of dollars by toyota; while it fixes the problem for a while, the new sensor becomes faulty within a couple of years (absurdly short amount of time). i believe this is due to water infiltrating the speed sensor. a recall should be made to replace the rear wheel sensors with ones that have better water protection. toyota has since redesigned the rear wheel sensors on the new yaris, but fails to offer a recall on the many thousands of dangerous yaris' on the road. | |||