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Toyota RAV4 Vehicle Speed Control Problems

701
Owner complaint records in our dataset
21
Years with records
1999–2019
Stored years

Records are owner complaints, not a measured failure rate.

Owner complaint recordsComplaint records reflect reports in our dataset and do not measure how frequently the problem occurs across all vehicles.

Among these 701 stored complaint records:

  • 182 indicate a crash
  • 49 indicate injury
  • 2 indicate fire
  • 3 indicate a death

Complaints by year

What appears in the records

  • brake pedal · 30 records
  • failure mileage · 21 records
  • foot brake · 20 records
  • police report · 17 records
  • report filed · 17 records
  • notified failure · 14 records

Mileage in stored records

BandRecords
1–30k mi360
30–60k mi110
60–100k mi91
100–150k mi50
150–400k mi8

Complaint evidence

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  • January 5, 2020 · 104,300 miles

    Vehicle Speed Control

    This complaint is related to and the same type of complaint as complaint #11297696. It also is a duplicate of complaint # 11297717 which i noticed when i printed it out deleted all but the first ten words of what happened. On 5 january 2020 i was parking the rav 4 in a large parking lot at the green town center in beavercreek, ohio. The parking lot was set up with head-to-head parking. I pulled into the space and…

    Crash reported

    ODI 11297729

    2009 records in this system

  • January 5, 2020 · 104,300 miles

    Vehicle Speed Control

    This complaint is the same type of problem identified in complaint #11297696. On 5 jan 2020 i was parking the rav 4 in a lot at the greene town center in beavercreek ohio. I pulled into a space which was head -to-head parking. I then backed up to straighten the car out between the designated white lined parking space. With my foot on the brake and the gear shift in one/low the car was edging forward when it all of a…

    Crash reported

    ODI 11297717

    2009 records in this system

  • December 16, 2019 · 33,450 miles

    Service Brakes · Vehicle Speed Control

    Tl* the contact owns a 2012 toyota rav4. On several occasions, while driving various speeds, the brake pedal was depressed; however, the vehicle independently accelerated. The contact stated that the failure was intermittent. The vehicle was taken to ball toyota of charleston ([redacted] plaza, charleston, wv 25387, [redacted]) to be diagnosed, but the mechanic was unable to retrieve a fault code or duplicate the…

    ODI 11289594

    2012 records in this system

  • November 28, 2019 · 20,000 miles

    Vehicle Speed Control

    In three separate occasions since purchase january 16th, 2018, the adaptive cruise control has lost track of an suv in front of me and continued to accelerate. Driver had to intervene. First instance was a brown pontiac aztec in clear weather daytime. Second occurrence was a blue chevy encore in clear weather daytime. Third occurrence was a black escalade in clear weather at night. Vehicle cruise control was set to…

    ODI 11288606

    2018 records in this system

  • November 18, 2019 · 3,100 miles

    Air Bags · Service Brakes · Vehicle Speed Control

    Tl* the contact owns a 2019 toyota rav4. While driving approximately 2 mph and attempting to park, the vehicle did not stop. The brake pedal was depressed at the time of the failure. The vehicle continued to move, drove over a curb and sidewalk, and crashed into a storefront. Police report number: [xxx] was filed. There were no injuries. The frontal air bags did not deploy. The vehicle was towed to a body shop. The…

    Crash reported

    ODI 11282427

    2019 records in this system

  • October 22, 2019 · 53,000 miles

    Fuel/Propulsion System · Power Train · Vehicle Speed Control

    3 weeks after the 50,000 mile service, on october 22 2019, i was driving 35 mph on soquel avenue, when the car became unresponsive, i lost all power and control of the vehicle, and "check ev system" came onto the instrument cluster. I was able to coast to the side of the road into a bus stop, turned the car off, and had the car towed into the dealership. The dealership was unable to replicate the symptom and…

    ODI 11283129

    2012 records in this system

  • October 20, 2019 · 85,069 miles

    Fuel/Propulsion System · Vehicle Speed Control

    I was on the freeway and entering a freeway ramp to another freeway in a turn and i let my foot off the gas and the throttle stuck and actually my car began to speed up on its own! My foot was not the gas at the time i let it for a sec and than it was like i slammed on the gas going into the turn on the ramp it scared the hell out of me its the first something like that happen to me. It sped up from 65 to around 68…

    ODI 11269832

    2010 records in this system

  • September 1, 2019

    Power Train · Vehicle Speed Control

    Car doest not move right away at a stop even when stepping on the accelerator at 3-4 rpm. Very dangerous when your in the intersection when turning left or when crossing the street. Seems like the transmission slips

    ODI 11269095

    2019 records in this system