2013 Toyota Avalon VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL

2013 TOYOTA AVALON. CONSUMER WRITES IN REGARDS TO UNINTENDED ACCELERATION. *LD THE CONSUMER STATED THE UNINTENDED ACCELERATION CAUSED A CRASH INTO A WALL AND ANOTHER VEHICLE. THE AIBAGS DEPLOYED. THE DRIVER AND TO PASSENGER RECEIVED MINOR CUTS AND BRUISES. THE VEHICLE WAS TOTALED. *JS

TAKATA RECALL A RECALL WAS MADE ON THIS VEHICLE IN OCTOBERT OF 2015 REPLACEMENT PARTS ARE NOT AVAILBLE NEARLY HAD FOUR BAD ACCIDENTS ON A HIGHWAY GOING TO CHICAGO THE RADAR CRUISE CONTROL IS SUPPOSED TO SLOW THE CAR WHEN YOU GET TO CLOSE TO THE CAR IN FRONT OF YOU. ON CERTAIN OCCASION THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN.

DYNAMIC CRUISE CONTROL TURN ITSELF OFF OR APPLIES BRAKES THIS HAS HAPPENED MULTIPLE TIMES ON TANGENT SECTIONS WITH NO VEHICLES IN FRONT - HIGHWAY SPEED (70 MPH). THERE IS A SERIES OF BEEPS AND THE CAR SLOWS GRADUALLY OR ABRUPTLY. DASHBOARD INDICATOR SHOWS THERE IS A VEHICLE IN FRONT BUT NO VEHICLE IS PRESENT - FALSE POSITIVE. TOOK VEHICLE TO TOYOTA DEALER AND HE STATED THAT WHEN PCS WAS DISABLED IT WOULD REMEDY THE PROBLEM. IT DID NOT. RETURNED TO TOYOTA DEALER - HE CHECKED WITH TOYOTA CORPORATE AND THEY HAVE NO RECORD OF ANY PROBLEMS LIKE THIS. PROBLEM NORMALLY OCCURS ON LONGER TRIPS AFTER DRIVING 2-3 HOURS. DYNAMIC CRUISE CANNOT BE RESET FOR AN HOUR OR TWO. YOU MUST EITHER DRIVE MANUALLY OR USE NORMAL CRUISE CONTROL MODE FOR AN HOUR OR TWO AND THEN YOU CAN RETURN TO DYNAMIC CRUISE CONTROL. ERROR HAS NOW OCCURED AT LEAST 6 TIMES SINCE PCS HAS BEEN DISABLED AND 3X BEFORE IT WAS DISABLED. DATE BELOW IS THE LATEST OCCURENCE.

IN 2013 I BOUGHT A TOYOTA AVALON LIMITED SEDAN. BEFORE THE FACTORY WARRANTY WAS EXPIRED, A CLIP HOLDING THE DRIVERS FLOOR MAT IN PLACE BROKE. I TOOK IT INTO THE DEALERSHIP AND WAS TOLD IT WAS NOT COVERED AND THE REASON IT WAS NOT IS BECAUSE 'I AM GETTING IN AND OUT OF MY CAR THE WRONG WAY' THEY PUT THE CLIP BACK IN BUT DID NOT REPAIR THE UNDERLYING CARPET ISSUE. I ASKED FOR THEM TO SHOW ME A WRITTEN MANUAL OR TO AT LEAST DEMONSTRATE WHAT IT IS I WAS DOING WRONG AND I ALSO ASKED IF THEY WERE WATCHING ME GET IN AND OUT OF MY CAR FOR THEM TO HAVE THIS INFORMATION. THEY WERE UNABLE TO ANSWER ANY OF THESE QUESTIONS BUT STILL REFUSED TO FIX THE ISSUE. FLASH FORWARD AND I GET A PRE-COLLISION SYSTEM RECALL. TOYOTA HAS NO SOLUTION SO THEY TURN OFF THE ENTIRE SYSTEM. NOW I HAVE NO COLLISION MITIGATION WHEN THE FLOOR MAT CLIP COMES LOSE AGAIN. THE MAT IS UNDER THE BREAK PEDAL AND I CANNOT FULLY DEPRESS THE BRAKE PEDAL. THE PRE-COLLISION SYSTEM IS TURNED OFF SO NO HELP THERE. I MANAGED TO REACH DOWN AND PULL THE FLOOR MAT OUT FROM UNDER THE BRAKE PEDAL AND STOP INCHED AWAY FROM ANOTHER VEHICLE. I FEEL THAT TOYOTA HAS NEEDLESSLY PUT MY WELFARE AT RISK AND TRIED TO BLAME ME, AND THE WAY I INGRESS AND EGRESS THE VEHICLE, ADDITIONALLY IT HAS BEEN NEARLY A YEAR SINCE THEY TURNED OFF MY PRE-COLLISION SYSTEM. I PAID $4000 IN UPGRADE FEES TO GET THAT SYSTEM.

TOYOTA HAS FAILED TO REMEDY NHTSA RECALL: 15V728 WITH A REASONABLE TIME .INTERIM SAFETY RECALL NOTICE WAS IN NOV 2015.

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2013 TOYOTA AVALON. WHILE REVERSING INTO A PARKING SPACE, THE VEHICLE ACCELERATED INDEPENDENTLY AND CRASHED INTO THE VEHICLE BEHIND IT. A POLICE REPORT WAS FILED AND IT WAS UNKNOWN IF ANY INJURIES WERE SUSTAINED. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO AN INDEPENDENT BODY SHOP. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE APPROXIMATE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 14,400.

2013 TOYOTA AVALON. CONSUMER WRITES IN REGARDS TO UNINTENDED ACCELERATION VEHICLE ACCIDENT. *SMD THE CONSUMER STATED THE VEHICLE ACCELERATED BACKWARDS OUT OF A PARKING SPACE. LUCKILY, SHE DID NOT HIT ANYTHING OR ANYONE. HOWEVER, IT THEN ACCELERATED FORWARD HITTING ANOTHER VEHICLE IN A PARKING SPACE. THE VEHICLE WAS INSPECTED, AND IT WAS DETERMINED, THE ACCIDENT WAS NOT A RESULT OF ANY TYPE OF MANUFACTURING OR DESIGN DEFECT. *JB

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2013 TOYOTA AVALON. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHILE DRIVING 65 MPH, THE VEHICLE WOULD NOT ACCELERATE PROPERLY. THE FAILURE WAS RECURRING. THE MANUFACTURER WAS MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 200,000.

2013 TOYOTA AVALON HYBRID. CONSUMER WRITES IN REGARDS TO VEHICLE INACCURATE SPEEDOMETER. *SMD AN INSPECTION REVEALED THE SPEEDOMETER WAS 2-3 MPH FAST. ACCORDING TO TOYOTA, THAT WAS ACCEPTABLE.

TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2013 TOYOTA AVALON. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHILE DRIVING 45 MPH, THE VEHICLE SURGED WITHOUT WARNING. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER. THE TECHNICIANS WERE UNABLE TO DIAGNOSED THE FAILURE AND STATED THAT THE VEHICLE WAS PERFORMING UP TO SPECIFICATIONS. THE MANUFACTURER WAS MADE AWARE OF THE FAILURE BUT DID NOT OFFER ANY ASSISTANCE SINCE AN ENGINEER TEST DROVE THE VEHICLE AND AGREED THAT THE VEHICLE WAS PERFORMING UP TO SPECIFICATIONS. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT REPAIRED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 300 AND THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 2,000. *TR