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The contact owns a 2009 Toyota Corolla. While traveling on a two-lane roadway at speeds of 50 mph, the vehicle abnormally accelerated. He attempted to put the vehicle in neutral but the vehicle did not respond to driver input. The vehicle then proceeded off the roadway and into an embankment of sand. It was unknown if the vehicle was destroyed or not. The current and failure mileages were unknown. The complaint was filed by an authorized police officer.
The contact previously owned a 2009 Toyota Corolla. The contact stated that she rear ended another vehicle when she approached a traffic light. Her foot was on the brake pedal but the vehicle suddenly lunged forward. There were no injuries. A police report was filed. She took the vehicle to the dealership to be inspected and the dealer told her that they found nothing wrong. The vehicle accelerated up to 64 mph which she attributed to the unintended acceleration and as she depressed the brake pedal the vehicle did not slow down. The contact was given a citation for speeding when the vehicle accelerated on its own. After a week, she was approaching a traffic light and when she tried to apply the brakes, the vehicle continued to move forward which caused her to rear end another vehicle. There were no injuries. A police report was filed. She took the vehicle back to the dealership, told them that she refused to drive the vehicle and they gave her allowed her to trade the vehicle in for another one. The current mileage was approximately 34,000. The failure mileage was approximately 30,000.
The contact owns a 2009 Toyota Corolla. After the vehicle was started, the rpms rapidly increased and her foot was not on the accelerator or brake pedal. The failure recurred after she stopped at a traffic light. The dealer stated that whenever the engine was cold the rpms increase. Since the gas pedal was replaced the failure has not recurred. The steering has become difficult to control while making left and right turns. The failure mileage was 9,000 and the current mileage was 12,000.
I started up my 2009 Toyota Corolla, then with my foot on the brake, I put the cars gear into reverse. The car started backing up, accelerating uncontrollably. The brake would not stop the car. I never touched the accelerator from the time I started the car. The car stopped when it ran into another parked vehicle. I took the car to the Toyota dealership in bradford, pa. The service manager told me that there was nothing wrong with the car. He said that I stepped on the brake too hard and that disables the anti-lock brakes. They refused to look at the car. There were no floormats in my vehicle. The Toyota dealership will not look at my car because they say that it is not covered by the recall because its VIN number begins with a J, which means it was manufactured in Japan. I am scared to drive it because I have already had the acceleration problem once and crashed.
Corolla Toyota 2009 I was driving in the freeway speed was 65 all of a sudden I felt that the accelerator pedal got stucked I couldnt put my brakes on time.
- Las Vegas, NV, USA
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The contact owns a 2009 Toyota Corolla. The contact stated she took her vehicle in for the acceleration recall but she is still experiencing the acceleration problem, the vehicle is still picking up speed. The contact stated she had to keep pressing the brakes and it eventually slows down, however the vehicle will feel like it's going to stall out on her. The contact also stated when putting the vehicle in reverse it makes a popping/knocking sound. The contact states when she decelerates and then tries to accelerate again her vehicle will hesitate and then jerk. The contact stated the dealer says they cannot do anything about this. The failure mileage was unknown and the current is 27,000.
My car is a 2009 Toyota Corolla le it was driven on October 31, 2009 when the gas pedal sped up and crashed towards the front vehicle. A police report. After this occurred around Jan. 2010 I heard the Corollas were doing a recall about the gas pedal and I figured thats what happened to me. I contacted Toyota and its been three weeks since I last heard from them. There is a claim opened but I dont know anything about my car or whats going to happen.
The contact owns a 2009 Toyota Corolla. When the contact attempted to place the vehicle into drive from park gear, the vehicle suddenly accelerated without warning causing the vehicle to crash into an embanked of snow. In order to the stop the acceleration the vehicle had to be turned of manually using the ignition switch. No one was injured and a police report was not filed. Prior to the recent failure the contact had the recall NHTSA campaign id number: 10V017000 and 10V023000 performed on the vehicle.the vehicle had not been diagnosed by the dealership and there were no prior warnings. The current and failure mileages were 5000.
The contact owns a 2009 Toyota Corolla xle. The contact stated that the re-enforcement bar was replaced on the gas pedal and the vehicle is still having the same acceleration problems. The contact stated that when the gas pedal is released the vehicle keeps accelerating. The contact stated that the vehicle accelerated from time to time before the repair, now the vehicle does it all the time. The failure and current mileages was 5000. Updated 4/23/10 the consumer stated the vehicle failed to decelerate at 40 mph. Updated 05/05/10.
The contact owns a 2009 Toyota Corolla. She stated that while driving at 65 mph, the vehicle accelerated on its own. She lost control of the steering. She was able to pullover to the side of the road, but she noticed that the vehicle wanted to still take off on its own. She turned off the vehicle and turned it back on. After a couple of minutes the vehicle operated normally and she took the vehicle to the dealer and the dealer reset the computer. The acceleration problem with the vehicle was not repaired and had occurred once again. This had occurred three additional times. There were repairs done to the vehicle and she is still experiencing the problem. The failure mileage was unknown and current mileage was 30000.
2009 Toyota Corolla car suddenly lurched the consumer stated while pulling into a vacant parking space, the vehicle suddenly lurched forward at full throttle pushing him back into the seat from the sudden acceleration. Even though, he tried to react quickly, the vehicle hit a curb then went over the curb and traveled 3 feet beyond before he was able to stop the vehicle by putting the gear into neutral and hard braking. The consumer exited the vehicle to check for damage, but there wasn't any. He noticed that the revved engine was idling at a normal speed. The consumer didn't believe what he experienced was an accelerator issue, rather a problem with the mpu and control circuit for the fuel and air mixture.
Purchased a 2009 Toyota Corolla on Jan. 31, 2009. Immediately noticed "unwanted acceleration", the car wanted to go when stopped unless the brake was applied hard and did not slow down immediately when foot was taken off the gas pedal. Gas pedal did not always come all the way up when foot taken off, but would pop up if brakes applied hard. Cruise control did not work properly. Mentioned concern several times to Toyota service dept. They told me that what I was describing was normal for those cars. The car was in an accident on 12/22/09. Hit another car from behind. I think that the "not slowing down immediately when foot taken off gas pedal" was a contributing factor to the accident. There were no injuries but the car was badly damaged. Toyota sent recall notice but said VIN#'s beginning in J not affected. Our car begins with J. recently send letters to Toyota and waiting for reply.
On 2/26/10 I brought my 2009 Toyota Corolla le to North hills Toyota/Scion service center at 711 browns lane pgh pa 15237 to have the recall work performed. As per the work order #tocs162571, the work performed was: Installing accelerator pedal reinforcement bar, brake inspection, installing intake air tube connector kit. Up until that time, I had not experienced any problems. On 3/1/10 at 10:25am, the 2009 Toyota Corolla abruptly accelerated to over 7,000 rpms while my foot was applied to brake as I was coming to a stop at a red light. The car continued to move despite applying extra pressure to the brake with my foot. I then turned the car off with the key, put it in park, waited approx. 1 minute, and restarted the car. The acceleration was much worse than the first time and the needle on the tachometer again went to over 7,000 rpms and the engine sounded like a "jet engine". I immediately turned to engine off again. The police were then called as the car was blocking traffic. The officer and myself pushed the car to side of road without starting it. Aaa eventually towed the car to North hills Toyota/Scion service center. On 3/2/10, deana hicks of the service dept. Called to say, upon inspection, they found nothing wrong with the car. I asked them to examine the car further and a service tech. Took it home over night in an attempt to replicate the problem and could not. At this point we were told we could take the car back.
Driver was coming out of driveway slowly. All of a sudden, car was in the middle of the road and was hit in the driver's door. 2009 Corolla was totaled.
The contact owns a 2009 Toyota Corolla. The contact stated after the vehicle had been repaired for the sticky pedal recall. The contact continued to experience the unintended acceleration failure with the vehicle. The current and failure miles were 4,000.
On 2/25/10, I experienced the Toyota sudden acceleration problem with my 2009 Toyota Corolla le. I was on the way home from work in the late afternoon and depressed the accelerator to gain speed and change lanes. I was traveling I71 North in cincinnati, Ohio. The car downshifted and immediately ran full throttle. The brake system is also affected by this problem as I was unable to totally stop the car. The engine ran up over 7500 RPM, so I placed the car in neutral as I was instructed through the media. I was losing speed and I still needed to get over 3 lanes of traffic to a safe spot on the berm. I placed the car back in gear and was rapidly going over 80 mph. I was able to get over and when I tried to slow the car while in gear, I couldn't get it below 45 mph with both feet pushing hard on the brake pedal. I again put the car in neutral and was able to get off the road. The engine was again running at full throttle while I was in park. I turned on the 4 way flashers and turned off the engine. I waited and tried to start the car again so my wife could hear it on the phone and again it ran full throttle. About 15 minutes later the tow truck driver started the car and it ran normally. The kings Toyota dealer informed me that my car was not on the gas pedal recall list. After having a Toyota field engr. Look at my car it was determined that no problem could be found, that the computer health report showed no problem in the history file and the was released back to me on 3/2/10 with a no problem found diagnosis. They assured me that my car was safe to drive and put my family in. Bunk!!!! I no longer want this car, I would like to be released from the remaining 13 months of my lease and I will look for another car and not a Toyota. I was fortunate that I never was injured or that I injured some else. I have been experiencing harsh pain in my neck, shoulders and arms since the incident due to fighting to control the vehicle. I am going to see my doctor.
The contact owns a 2009 Toyota Corolla. The contact stated he put the vehicle in reverse and it took off with unintended acceleration. The recall repair was done on the accelerator pedal by installing a chip, however the acceleration failure had happened again. The dealer was called and the dealer instructed the contact to bring the vehicle back so the vehicle can be inspected. The Toyota manufacture had not been called. The failure mileage was 22,000.
I had a car accident. I was driving a 2009 Toyota Corolla. My gas feed stuck causing me to collide with to other cars. I had the repairs done at Toyota.
Vehicle was exiting the Washington grand complex. Due to there being no damage to the exit gate it appears the driver or the vehicle accelerated crossing ridgewood rd and for an unknown reason was not able to come to a stop striking 71 ridgewood rd causing structural damage.
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- Las Vegas, NV, USA