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I have a 2006 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck that has had numerous incidents of automatic rapid acceleration. These have all occurred during highway driving and with multiple drivers. Initially, I thought this was related to a cruise control problem since they occurred during highway driving. However, the cruise control was replaced in 2008 and I am still having acceleration problems. At present time Toyota has the vehicle listed for the 90L floor mat entrapment recall only and not the accelerator pedal recall. I do not think this is a floor mat problem, but rather it is an accelerator pedal problem. I have attempted to call and email Toyota corporation several times and have had zero response. The local Toyota dealership service department has indicated that they cannot perform the 90L floor mat entrapment recall service until Toyota releases the VIN numbers and service requirements for the Tacoma. No one seems to know when this recall will be released by Toyota and there doesn't seem to be any urgency for it. In the meantime nothing has been done to resolve the acceleration problems with the Tacoma, and infact Toyota fails to recognize rapid acceleration in the Tacoma. I have listed May 1, 2009 as the approximate incident date. However, as noted previously, these incidents occurred multiple times to multiple drivers over the course of the 3 years I have owned the vehicle.
S10 appropriate handling re Toyota throttle control problem fm owner of a 2006 Toyota Tacoma truck. The consumer stated twice within the past year, he experienced sudden acceleration. In both instances, his foot was on the brake and he was moving less that 5 mph. Both times, the vehicle surged forward as the ABS activated, and the front of the vehicle impacted the garage wall. The consumer believed the problem involved the electronic control system that activated and operated the ABS and throttle. He noticed that the ABS tends to activate too often and too early, even in dry conditions.
My 2006 Toyota Tacoma has a problem surging forward at stops. I have not been involved in an accident but with the current recalls now on other Toyota vehicles I am concerned. The only current recall on my vehicle is for the floor mats. I was wondering if there were any other complaints like mine? didn't know where else to state my concerns. Have done some research on my own. Found some Toyota owners forums online others have stated they have the same problem. Please help!!
This is a description of an event that occurred in September of 2009., bellingham Washington. I was southbound on I-5 approximately.25 miles South of sunset drive. I was traveling at about 60 mph, when noticing a slow vehicle directly about 300 ft ahead I signaled and moved into the passing lane to pass the slower vehicle. Traffic was fairly light. Just as I was just past the slow vehicle I noticed I wanted to take the upcoming off ramp, so I accelerated briefly to gain speed to move back into the slower lane., fortunately traffic was light because the vehicle started racing, I had let off the accelerator and nothing happened, instead I applied both feet first gently quickly firmly to the brake even with the brake firmly applied with both feet my speed was well in excess of 80mph and the engine was racing. Several hundred feet in front of me was my offramp and traffic, lots of it. I asked my husband sitting next to me if he could reach down and pry the accelerator from the floor, he tried unsuccessfully, at this point I new I had to get off the highway or rear end someone on the highway first, then again the same would be true off the ramp which was a fairly short right sweeping ramp. I didn't think we would make it and was most concerned about hitting someone else so I decided to take the ramp, at the same time carefully holding the wheel I ducked under it all the way to the floor and jerked the accelerator pedal out to the top, immediately returned above to the turning ramp both feet still pressed hard on the brake and just as I got to the end of the ramp, the vehicle stopped right in front of mcdonald's.. I just gripped the wheel tightly looked at my husband and said loudly !@#$% (excuse me) thank you god. I had never told anyone of this incident but it haunted me and when I heard of the issues going on in January I thought over and over I should contact Toyota. I finally did, I think it was about a month ago. I did get a response. Safety issues don't affect my vehicle why?
I am the owner of a 2006 Toyota Tacoma that was involved in a roll over accident on 2/14/2010. My son was driving the vehicle with 2 passengers on a church outing. They were stopped at a traffic light waiting to turn. When the light changed he said he tried to accelerate but the pedal did not respond, the second time he tried the vehicle took off. As he tried to round the corner, the vehicle kept accelerating, he tried to brake but they did not respond. He lost control of the vehicle and hit the curb on the adjacent side of the road and became airborn. They went down an embankment and rolled. There was another vehicle of young adults traveling with them, and in the lane next to them on their left. They saw the whole thing and said they could hear the engine racing. When the got to the vehicle, they were able to get everyone out and my son just kept saying "what the hell happened". they were all treated and released with minor injuries. This vehicle was in the Toyota recall for floor mats. I did not have Toyota mats in the truck, I had very heavy rubber mats. I believe this vehicle experienced the accelerator pedal issue that has caused hundreds of other crashes. We are just fortunate no one was seriously hurt.
- Westminster, CO, USA
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The contact owns a 2006 Toyota Tacoma. The contact was backing out of a parking space. The engine began to rev excessively high and crashed into a utility pole. The gear was then placed into the "drive" position. An unintended acceleration occurred without warning. The vehicle crashed into a parked trailer and pushed the trailer into another parked vehicle. The police was called to the scene. There were no personal injuries. The vehicle was towed to an auto body collision shop. The vehicle was repaired for the body damages. There was an investigation performed by the manufacturer. The cause of failure has not been determined. Updated 05/07/10 updated 06/03/10 updated 06/07/10 updated 06/22/10 resend 06/24/10 updated 06/24/10 updated 07/19/10 updated 07/21/10. Updated 8/9/10 Toyota's field technical specialist found no mechanical defects. Updated 08/17/10.
I was passing on a two lane highway and the accelerator stuck. It has happened twice in three and a half years. Both times I tried putting the truck in neutral and had to shut the engine off. When it restarted both times the pedal was working normally.
The accelerator was stuck in our 2006 Toyota Tacoma on several occasions. Almost causing an accident each time. We do not feel safe driving it. We have removed the mats. Toyota isn't offering replacement mats to fix the problems for their mistake. Toyota also hasn't included my truck in this supposed voluntary recall.
I own a 2006 Toyota Tacoma prerunner double cab 4X2 V6. I bought the truck new from the dealership and have experienced four instances where after pressing the gas pedal hard, thus into overdrive, the truck either kept speeding up or did not rev back down. 1st instance - about 6 months after buying the vehicle, I was entering the freeway and needed to speed up to enter into traffic at speed. I pressed the gas pedal hard enough to boost speed. As I entered traffic, the truck just kept speeding up. After applying a light brake, I pumped the gas pedal several times and it the transmission finally engaged and geared back down. 2nd instance - while leaving the freeway @ 65 mph I slowed to 45 mph and switched lanes to the right. Then I applied gas to speed up to merge and the truck did not slow down. Again the link between the throttle and the transmission did not seem to reaction as in a normal situation. I had to merge back because the would not slow down fast enough. After 4-5 seconds the truck slowed down. 3rd instance - again entering the freeway. I applied pressure to the gas pedal to speed up enough to enter the traffic. This time the throttle opened full bore. I put the truck in neutral, lightly applied the brake, and pumped the gas pedal. After 5 seconds the truck finally revved back down. I reached a speed of over 90 mph in this instance. 4th instance - driving uphill the car automatically increased throttle with a small amount of additional pressure to the pedal, the truck surged forward, again full bore. I used the same technique and it eventually slowed. This problem is definitely not a floor mat problem. I now drive my truck very gingerly so as not to replicate the issue. I have taken the truck to two dealerships, both have not been helpful or have recognized the problem. Saying that "your truck is not on the recall list we see here, call this Toyota number." I know that others with the same model have this problem.
Stuck accelerator pedal in 2006 Toyota Tacoma. No floor mats installed. Truck reached 110mph before I was able to get truck under control. No crash. Had reported to Toyota several times that I was having problems from the start. They said there were no problems or they could not re-create them. I have stopped driving the truck.
2006 Toyota Tacoma involved to accident on 10/22/09 where during the accident the accelerator stuck wide open on the ice. My foot was on the brake when truck stopped & the rear tires where still spinning. I had to turn off the ignition to get the wheels to stop spinning. The car I hit Honda Accord was totaled. It got knocked into the drainage ditch. Luckily no one was injured. At the time I didn't tell police about the accelerator problem. Not on the police report. I did advise the party I hit & the tow truck drivers. Also advised the body shop. Now my insurance went up[ $50 a month. I have a ticket and have to pay a fine. I immediately removed the floor mat when I got my truck back from the body shop. I believe Toyota is partially to blame for my accident. I started to slide on the ice & at some point the accelerator stuck wide open. This I'm sure made the accident much worse. Imagine being on ice with your accelerator stuck wide open. I was lucky no one was killed.
I have a 2006 Toyota Tacoma pre-runner. I received a notice regarding the floor mat entrapment recall, however, the engine has over revved on one occasion requiring two feet on the brake and an immediate shift into neutral to disengage the accelerator. Now the accelerator is slow to return to idle and it often revs up while I'm trying to slow down, especially at lower speeds. I called the dealership today and was told that there was no recall for my vehicle and that there was no problem with my truck. I explained that I had received an official recall notice. The service rep. Re-stated that there was no problem with my truck. But there is! and floor mat is not the problem. It is so tightly secured to the floor by the factory connectors that it is, and has always been, a major pain to remove for cleaning. I don't take it out to clean because it is so hard to get disconnected. That is why I feel that the accelerator issues with my truck should be included in the second recall. I believe that this issue is more complex than is being stated. I felt that way when I received the floor mat recall notice and I feel stronger about this every time the RPM's rev and my foot is not on the pedal. The initial problem occurred before the floor mat recall notice arrived and continues intermittently. No accident or crash occurred, but the first time the pedal stuck wide open I was in a very small parking lot and would have hit the bartell's pharmacy building if I had not put it in neutral. I am awaiting notification about the first recall fix but remain extremely confident that it is not a floor mat issue.
My son took his new 3 month old 2006 Toyota Tacoma truck back to the dealer on 12-12-05 for "high idling" and "when accelerating customer having a hard time stopping it" according to the invoice.this vehicle went out of control two times. The first time it happened on a surface street speeding up from 40 mph to 80 mph and the second time he was on the highway. It sped up from 70 mph to 110. Both times my son shifted into neutral - instinctive reaction - and the truck did slow down. Had the traffic been bad, he and others, would have been killed for sure. Both times, he took his foot off of the accelerator and he could see it moving down towards the floor all by itself. It still has an idling problem. He was told that there was nothing wrong; by the dealer at the time. Nothing has been done to correct the problems with the high idling and accelerating problem. This model is not on the recall list. My son is deaf and he can be reached by email.
I was stopped at a light. 30 or so seconds went by and my 2006 Toyota Tacoma started moving forward, so I looked back & no car was pushing me. I depressed the brake further, now the tires in back started to spin (size 33 inch large off road tires) the brake was not holding my truck back, I started moving into the intersection. I have a lot of off road racing experience. I put the car in neutral turned the truck off. I then put it in park started the truck & drove to the dealership at Toyota of orange. They checked the truck out with a computer, noticed my car floor mat was connected. The dealer would not do anything and told me they could not help. I think its a computer or cruise control issue, because the truck took off after tack was at idle while waiting for the light to change. I finally found this site to complain.
On a couple different occasions my Toyota has taken off by itself. The last time I almost wrecked the road was slick and it start taking off. I was talking to my friends they said there is a recall on Toyota. I called the dealer and he said my particular truck has no problems. I disagree with that.
I own a 2006 Toyota Tacoma. On 2 occasions in the last few months I thought my accelerator pedal went down slightly increasing my speed without me doing anything to make it happen. On both occasions the roadway was wet and I tried to explain the weird feel by telling myself it must be hydroplaning.
This issue is repeatable and occurs under two circumstances. 1. when vehicle speed control has been previously set, and the "resume" function is used when actual speed is greater than or equal to 6mph slower than the previously set speed, the throttle moves to wide open and the transmission downshifts two gears and the vehicle accelerates very quickly until it exceeds the set speed by 5mph and then the throttle backs off and the transmission up-shifts to 5th gear. 2. when the vehicle is slowed by wind or moderate grade while using the vehicle speed control, the vehicle exhibits similar behavior indicated above when attempting to maintain set speed. This nearly caused an accident when my parents used this vehicle. They had cleared all nearby traffic and resumed the speed control. The vehicle accelerated so fast that when it some loose gravel on the paved roadway, they nearly lost control. I had brought this repeatable behavior to the attention of the dealer shortly after purchasing the vehicle in September of 2006. The dealer indicated that the behavior is normal. This issue continues to be a problem. Vehicle has 37,000 as of this complaint.
Driving a 2006 Toyota Tacoma on military base. Stopped at back of a building to let a soldier pass going into the building. Soldier was not in front of truck anymore, pressed on accelerator and truck took off. I hit the brakes and truck starts "spinning out" for a couple of seconds.
Cruise control: Since my 2006 Toyota Tacoma was brand new, when going up an incline such as a freeway overcrossing, or moderate incline, the cruise control will cause the automatic transmission to downshift one gear and many times two gears in an effort to maintain the freeway set speed (I.e. 65 or 70 mph). This cruise control throttle increase and transmission downshifting results in aggressive acceleration which continues past the set speed by a few miles per hour before the cruise control's increased throttle input backs off (since it shot past the cruise control's set speed!) before the cruise control initiates reduced throttle input to try to reduce the vehicle speed back down to the set speed. In addition to the lack of smooth cruise control set speed operation, this condition is especially scary when the incline is also on a curve. As the vehicle aggressively accelerates it can feel as the vehicle is traveling faster than it should for the curve causing the driver to tap the brake to disengage the cruise control to stop the excessive acceleration. To date, all inquiries to northern California Toyota dealer service representatives have resulted in the same response; ' the 2006 Tacoma does not have a speed control problem and there are no adjustments as it is controlled by the main computer'.
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- Chapel Hill, NC, USA