2006 Toyota Camry

MY CAR 2006 TOYOTA CAMRY HAD SUDDEN ACCELERATE FROM STOPPED POSITION AT A YIELD AND HIT THE CAR IN FRONT THOUGH DAMAGE TO THE FRONT CAR WAS NOT SIGNIFICANT. I STILL COULD NOT FIGURED IT OUT WHY THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED SINCE I DRIVE CAREFULLY. NO OTHER ACCIDENT ON THE RECORD SINCE I STARTED DRIVING FROM 2003. IT HAPPENED AROUND 9AM ON MY DAILY ROUTE TO WORKPLACE. RECENTLY I HEARD ABOUT TOYOTA RECALLS FOR CAMRY 2007 TO 2010. BUT I AM NOT SURE IF MY CAR ALSO HAVE SIMILAR PROBLEM. ONCE I VISITED TO SERVICE CENTER AFTER THE INCIDENT FOR REGULAR SERVICE THEN THEY MENTIONED THAT MY CAR'S BRAKE & GAS PEDALS NEED CLEAN-UP OR I HAVE TO GET IT REPLACED. SINCE THEY TOLD LITTLE HIGHER AMOUNT I TOLD NO FOR REPAIR. I AM NOT SURE IF MY TOYOTA CAMRY 2006 TOO HAVE THE PROBLEMS DESCRIBED IN RECALL. I HAVE INCIDENT REPORTED WITH MY INSURER AND CAN PROVIDE CLAIM NUMBER, DOCUMENTS, INSURER INFO ETC AS REQUIRED. THERE WERE NO CHARGES PAID TO ANY VEHICLE IN THIS MINOR INCIDENT TILL NOW BUT INSURER HAS KEPT THIS INCIDENT OPEN TILL NOW IF OTHER PARTY MAKES NEW CLAIMS. I STILL THINK WHY MY VEHICLE HAD SUDDEN ACCELERATION SO THOUGHT TO REPORT THIS INCIDENT WITH DOT. *TR

TL*THE CONTACT OWNS 2006 TOYOTA CAMRY. THE CONTACT PULLED IN TO PARKING SPACE AND THE VEHICLE ACCELERATED AND CRASHED INTO ANOTHER VEHICLE. BOTH VEHICLES ENDURED BODY DAMAGE. THE CONTACT HAS SPOKE TO THE MANUFACTURER AND WAS TOLD THAT HER VEHICLE WAS NOT ON THE RECALL LIST. THE VEHICLE CONTINUED TO SURGES AT TIMES WHENEVER THE CONTACT APPLIED THE BRAKE PEDAL. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 3,606 AND THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 29,000. UPDATED 03/30/10. *LJ UPDATED 06/17/10*JB

I BOUGHT MY 2006 CAMRY IN OCTOBER 2005 AND HAVE BEEN COMPLAINING TO CLAREMONT TOYOTA, THE DEALERSHIP WHERE I BOUGHT THE CAR, OF THE SUDDEN ACCELERATION AND BRAKING PROBLEM SINCE ABOUT 2006. IT'S AN INTERMITTENT PROBLEM THAT I HAVE HAD TO DEAL WITH SINCE I BOUGHT THIS CAR. MY COMPLAINTS HAVE BEEN THAT THE BRAKE PEDAL DROPS TO THE FLOOR AND THEN THE CAR ACCELERATES FORWARD AND THAT THE CAR ACCELERATES ON ITS OWN. THE SERVICE WRITERS HAVE DISMISSED MY COMPLAINTS AND GIVEN MANY EXCUSES SUCH AS: WHEN I LEFT THE CAR THERE TO HAVE THEM CHECK OUT THE PROBLEM THEY SAID THAT THE PROBLEM COULD NOT BE REPEATED SO THE CAR WAS FINE, ANOTHER TIME I WAS TOLD THAT THE NEW CARS HAVE ABS BRAKES THAT DROP DOWN TO THE FLOOR, AND AT A DIFFERENT TIME THEY SAID THAT WITH THESE NEW CARS THE REAR BRAKES HAD TO BE ADJUSTED AT EVERY OIL CHANGE AND ETC. THERE WAS AN INCIDENT IN 2006 WHEN I WAS AT A STOP AND SOME PEDESTRIANS WERE WALKING ACROSS THE STREET. THE CAR DID STOP BUT ALL OF THE SUDDEN THE BRAKE PEDAL HIT THE FLOOR AND THE CAR STARTED TO MOVE FORWARD. I HAD TO PUMP THE BRAKE PEDAL A FEW TIMES IN ORDER FOR IT WORK AGAIN. THANKFULLY THE PEDESTRIANS HAD NOT PASSED INFRONT OF MY CAR YET. I DON'T REMEMBER THE SPECIFIC DATE BUT I DO KNOW IT WAS IN 2006. ON 2/20/2010 I HAD MY HUSBAND TAKE THE CAR TO GET AN OIL CHANGE AT CLAREMONT TOYOTA. I HAD MY HUSBAND TAKE THE CAR BECAUSE I DO NOT WANT TO LIED TO OR GIVEN ANOTHER EXCUSE BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT CARS. MY HUSBAND MENTIONED THE PROBLEM ABOUT THE BRAKE PEDAL GOING DOWN TO THE FLOOR AND SOMETIMES HAVING TO DOWNSHIFT OR USE THE PARKING BRAKE TO SLOW DOWN THE CAR AND WAS TOLD THAT THIS CONDITION EXISTS DUE TO THE ABS SYSTEM SENSING THE ROTATION OF THE TIRES AND THAT THE CAR WOULD EVENTUALLY STOP. MY HUSBAND THEN MENTIONED WHAT WE HAD BEEN TOLD ABOUT THE REAR BRAKES AND THE SERVICE WRITER GRINNED AND SAID THAT THE BRAKES DO NOT NEED ADJUSTMENT. I DO NOT FEEL SAFE DRIVING THIS CAR BECAUSE IT FEELS AS IF IT HAS A MIND OF ITS OWN. *TR

MY WIFE SLOWLY PULLED INTO A PARKING SPOT IN A SUPERMARKET PARKING LOT. AS SHE HIT THE BRAKES TO COME TO A STOP, THE VEHICLE BEGIN RAPIDLY ACCELERATING AND BEFORE SHE COULD REACT THE CAR JUMPED A CURB AND ACROSS A GRASSY STRIP AND HIT A PARKED CAR. SHE HAS A CRACKED SPINE AND OTHER INJURIES. THE FRONT END CAR DAMAGE WAS CONSIDERABLE (ESTIMATE $5800) AND THERE WAS CONSIDERABLE FRONT END DAMAGE TO THE OTHER VEHICLE. OUR VEHICLE HAD BEEN IN FOR 20,000 MILE SERVICE JUST THE WEEK BEFORE. *TR

MY TOYOTA CAMRY 2006, PURCHASED ON 3/29/06 WAS INVOLVED IN TWO MAJOR ACCIDENTS AND IT WAS TOTALLED AFTER THE SECOND MAJOR ACCIDENT WHICH OCCOURED ON 3/30/07. ON THE FIRST MAJOR ACCIDENT, MY WIFE WHO WAS DRIVING THE VEHICLE, TRIED TO STOP THE VEHICLE AT THE SIGNAL, INSTEAD IT RACED FORWARD ON ITS OWN AND HIT ANOTHER VEHICLE. ON THE SECOND MAJOR INCIDENT, AFTER STOPPING THE CAR AND ALLOWING ANOTHER CAR TO PASS ON THE SAME ROAD IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION, SHE MADE A LEFT TURN AND THE CAR ACCELERATED UNCONTROLLABLY AND HIT A BIG TREE STANDING AT AN ELEVATED PART OF THE ROAD. BY LOOKING AT THE SCENE ANYBODY CAN COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT SOME KIND OF MALFUNCTIONING OF THE ACCELERATION MECHANISM HAS HAPPENED. IN BOTH OF THESE MAJOR ACCIDENTS, NONE OF THE AIR-BAGS DEPLOYED. THE SAME CAR HAD ANOTHER SIMILAR INCIDENT BUT NO PROPERTY WAS DAMAGED AND THEREFORE, THAT INCIDENT WAS NOT REPORTED TO POLICE BUT A CO-WORKER DROVE THE VEHICLE OUT OF THE RETAINING POND. IN THIS INCIDENT, MY WIFE AFTER PARKING THE CAR, TRIED TO PULL IT A LITTLE FURTHER AND THEN THE CAR JUMPED ACROSS THE CONCRETE BUMP AND FELL INTO THE RETAINING POND. LUCKLY THERE WAS NO WATER. *TR

TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2006 TOYOTA CAMRY. WHILE DRIVING UPHILL APPROXIMATELY 5 MPH AND MAKING A RIGHT TURN INTO A DRIVEWAY THE VEHICLE BEGAN ACCELERATING OVER 80 MPH AND WITHIN SECONDS THE VEHICLE WENT AIRBORNE OVER A RETAINING WALL AND INTO SOMEONE'S YARD. THE TIRES BLEW OUT WHEN THE VEHICLE LANDED ON THE GROUND AND THE RPMS CONTINUED TO INCREASE UNTIL SHE TURNED THE ENGINE OFF. SHE RECEIVED INJURIES TO THE RIGHT KNEE, ANKLE, CUTS AND BRUISES. THE INSURANCE COMPANY INVESTIGATED THE CRASH AND CONCLUDED THAT THE FLOOR MAT CAUSED THE FAILURE TO OCCUR SINCE IT WAS NOT HOOKED TO THE MAT. THE INSURANCE COMPANY ALSO DETERMINED THAT THE VEHICLE WAS DESTROYED; HOWEVER, SHE SOLD THE VEHICLE TO THE SALVAGE YARD. TOYOTA CONCLUDED THAT HER VIN WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE RECALL; THEREFORE, THEY WOULD NOT ASSIST HER WITH THE COST FOR THE DAMAGES. THE CURRENT AND THE FAILURE MILEAGES WERE 19,773. UPDATED 03/19/10. *LJ THE CONSUMERS INSURANCE COMPANY CONCLUDED AN UNHOOKED FLOOR MAT WAS THE CAUSE EVEN THOUGH THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE IT WAS JAMMED UNDER THE PEDAL AT THE TIME OF THE INSPECTION. UPDATED 07/14/10*JB

IN MAY 2007, MY I WAS DRIVING MY 2006 TOYOTA CAMRY WHEN IT SUDDENLY ACCELERATED TO AN UNCONTROLLABLE SPEED, THE STEERING KEPT VEERING TO THE LEFT AND THE BRAKES DID NOT STOP THE CAR. THE CAR WENT DOWN ABOUT 30 FEET INTO A GULLY BEFORE SLAMMING INTO A CEMENT COLUMN. THE CAR WAS TOTALLY DESTROYED AND I SUSTAINED INJURIES. IN A SERIES OF CORRESPONDENCE TOYOTA MOTOR SALES DENIED ANY DEFECT IN THE CAR AND MADE NO ATTEMPT TO PAY DAMAGES. I HAD PREVIOUSLY TAKEN THE CAR TO THE DEALERS FOR BRAKES ADJUSTMENT AND I COMPLAINED OF A CLUMSINESS WHEN ACCELERATING; THE DEALER ADJUSTED THE BRAKES BUT SAID THAT THE NOISE AND CLUMSINESS WAS THE NORMAL ACCELERATION FOR THE THROTTLE FOR THE V6 ENGINE. UPDATED 02/17/10. UPDATED 04/16/10.*JB SEE ODI 10191935 *DSY

TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2006 TOYOTA CAMRY. WHILE DRIVING 5 MPH INTO THE DRIVE WAY THE VEHICLE CONTINUED TO ACCELERATE WHILE HER FOOT WAS ON THE BRAKE PEDAL AND THE COLLIDED INTO A FENCE. SHE WAS ABLE TO STOP THE VEHICLE BY SLAMMING ON THE BRAKE PEDAL. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO THE DEALER. A TOYOTA ENGINEER CONCLUDED THAT THERE WAS NO MANUFACTURERS DEFECT AFTER TEST DRIVING THE VEHICLE. HE WAS ALSO UNABLE TO RECREATE THE FAILURE STATED IN CASE NUMBER 200808180560. THE VEHICLE FRONT END OF THE VEHICLE WAS REPAIRED. SHE HAS NOT EXPERIENCED THE ACCELERATION FAILURE AGAIN, BUT SHE HAS NOTICED THAT THE BRAKES WERE SLOW TO RESPOND. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 36,000 AND THE CURRENT MILEAGE 42,000. UPDATED 3/24/10 *CN AFTER MAKING A LEFT TURN, INTO HER DRIVEWAY AT 5-10 MPH WITH HER FOOT ON THE BRAKE, THE VEHICLE WOULD NOT SLOW DOWN. THE CONSUMER STATED SHE HIT FENCE AND CONTINUED INTO THE BACKYARD. AFTER SLAMMING DOWN HARD ON THE BRAKE, THE VEHICLE FINALLY STOPPED. UPDATED 07/01/10.*JB

TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2006 TOYOTA CAMRY. THE CONTACT STATED THAT WHEN THE DRIVER WAS AT A TRAFFIC LIGHT SHE NOTICED THAT THE ENGINE BEGAN TO REV AND LUNGE FORWARD. SHE WAS ABLE TO CONTROL THE VEHICLE BY ENGAGING THE BRAKE PEDAL. A FEW MONTHS LATER, THE ISSUE RECURRED. THE DRIVER WAS ABLE TO CONTROL AND STOP THE VEHICLE FROM ACCELERATING. THE CONTACT DID NOT TAKE THE VEHICLE TO THE DEALERSHIP OR SPEAK WITH THE MANUFACTURER REGARDING THE FAILURE. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THE FAILURE HAS NOT OCCURRED SINCE 2008. THE VEHICLE HAD NOT BEEN REPAIRED TO-DATE. THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS APPROXIMATELY 74,000. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 32,000. UPDATED 03/10/10 *BF UPDATED 05/06/10. *JB