The vehicle took off while trying to park in front of my residence hitting a park vehicle causing damage to my vehicle and the park one the accelerator just engaged itself the ABS, traction and vsc lights car making strange noises on the left front wheel slight vibration on steering wheel left.

- Los Angeles, CA, USA

While driving along at city street speeds, during dry weather, on paved roads, my vsc trac and trac off lights come on. No other warning lights come on. Then a buzzer sounds for about 3 seconds. Then at the same time, a strange grinding sound comes from underneath the car, and the brakes seem to start working for no reason. I quickly pull over, turn off the car. I check the outside of the car and see no indication of running over anything. I then start the car and all the lights are back to normal (off). This happens about 2-3 times a month, for about a month or 2 now. I have not been able to determine any problems.

- Novato, CA, USA

I provided the following information to consumer reports and they suggested I forward the information to you: I subscribe to mycarstats car report advisory service. They provide info and maintenance reports on vehicles like mine, 2003 Toyota Sequoia. There are repeated reports of failures to the vsc/ABS/ESC system. In some cases the brakes were applied without driver input creating a dangerous situation. These incidents seem to be more prevalent when the vehicles have higher mileage. It also seems the dealers are milking the car owners by doing band-aid fixes to the system until the warranty goes out. In some cases the repair cost exceeds $2500. This is a known problem that Toyota has chosen to ignore and owners have been crying for a recall but obviously they have been crying to the wrong people - Toyota. Can you get involved before someone gets hurt or killed? maybe that has already happened and Toyota is keeping it quite. I also noticed that you have already received several complaints about this problem. The consumer stated he has not experienced a failure, but he just wanted it to be known that there is a problem. Updated 04/07/10.

- Hendersonville, NC, USA

Toyota Sequoia 2003 ECU computer failure (vsc/ABS light on) after just 40K miles. This is integrated into the powertrain and should be covered under the powertrain warranty which is 60 months/60,000 miles. They want me to pay 2500 dollars.

- San Jose, CA, USA

I own a 2003 Toyota Sequoia. For the third time now, the vsc off and vsc trac lights have illuminated for no reason. Local Toyota dealer can't figure it out and every time it's a different diagnose. I have purchased Toyota's for their reliability, but this one has me thinking otherwise. I saw on an edmunds forum site that other folks have reported this to the NHTSA gov site. I thought it is a good idea since it has to do with a brake system. From the number of complaints on the forum sites I think Toyota has a problem they don't want to admit. That is until someone gets hurt.

- Williamsburg, VA, USA

Consumer began to smell a sulfur/rotten egg odor. The smell seemed enhanced by sudden acceleration of the vehicle and by operation of the sunroof.

- Unknown, DC, USA