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2012 Toyota Rav4 Sudden
acceleration
12-22-2015, 02:41 AM
#12 (page 2)
cd9963
Location:
Northern California
(2012 Toyta Rav4)
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2012 Toyota Rav4 Sudden
acceleration
Hello,
I am new to this forum
and I joined to ask some questions to see if
anyone has had any
similar problems.
Here's the senario:We
have a 2012 Toyota Rav4 base model two wheel
drive, 4 cyl. automatic.
The car belongs to my mother, I was driving it,
my mother was in the
front passenger seat. We had been driving for
roughly 15 minutes, and
had come to a red light and were completely
stopped for
approximately one minute when all of the sudden the engine
started revving and then
the car lurched forward (like a stick shift would
do if you popped the
clutch) and the tires spun and squeeled on the
pavement. Once the
acceleration stopped and revving let up and it
returned to
"normal" for being stopped, I put the car in park and pulled
the emergency brake. In
shock as to what had just happened, I looked
at my mother and said
"oh my god, what just happened?!!" I was in a
total state of shock and
pretty shook up. We took the car back to the
house and I called AAA
and had the Rav4 towed to our local Toyota
dealership. The same
day, the service advisor called me and said he
needed to interview me
to ask me some survey questions that Toyota
needed for the
inspection of the vehicle. I answered the questions, which
some were similar to
questions that would be asked if you were in a car
accident (road
conditions, weather condition, was the car moving or
stopped, was the AC or
heater on or off, etc). The following day, the
service advisor called
again (I missed his call, he left a voice mail) He
stated that "the
Rav4 is all checked out, did all inspections, submitted
with Toyota, and opened
a case with Toyota on all the information that
he had went over with
me, and he submitted it, everything is checking
out fine on the car, and
they can't find anything that would cause this
concern, everything is
checking out good. It's all done, the case is closed
with Toyota"
I disagree. The Rav4 is
NOT okay, something IS definitely wrong, but
they claim nothing is
wrong with it. Furthermore, when I insisted
something was wrong with
the vehicle because I was the one behind the
driver seat when it when
it happened, and that the accelerator problems
with Toyota were not top
secret, the public knows about it, one of the
service advisors told me
"Nasa has proved that none of the sticking gas
pedals in those
instances ever happened" (???!) I told her I was not
going down that path
with her and she told me I could take it up with
Toyota and she provided
me with the case number.
My question to everyone
is this: Has anyone out there had a similar issue
with a 2012 RAV4 or know
anyone that has? Does anyone know what
the problem is? AND has
anyone every been told what the service
advisor told me about
NASA? This sounds to me like Toyota is trying to
brush a major serious
problem under the carpet. We are terrified to
drive this car!! We fear
for our life! I won't drive it home from Toytoa,
it's going to be towed
back to our driveway. The car's only got 17,000
miles on it, new tires,
new brakes, new battery and is paid off, we own it
outright and basically
we have a car that isn't safe to drive but Toyota
won't admit a problem.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly
appreciated.
Thank you!
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Have you got any answers, dear Rav4 driver? You will never get answers from Toyota that you can rely on as the truth.
I know what the problem is, and I know many people who know what the problem is.