2001 Toyota Rav4 Cruise Control Problems

STARTED HAVING PROBLEMS SHIFTING GEARS, ACCELERATING. *JS

ERRATIC SHIFTING ON MY WIFE'S 2001 TOYOTA RAV4 (140,000 MILES). COULD NOT ACCELERATE ALONG WITH RANDOM DOWNSHIFTS. THIS WAS VERY DANGEROUS ON BOTH SURFACE STREETS AND HIGHWAY DRIVING AS VEHICLE WOULD NOT ACCELERATE WHEN NEEDED OR RADICALLY SLOW DOWN WHEN IT SPORADICALLY DROPPED INTO A LOWER GEAR. TOOK THE VEHICLE TO ELK GOVE (CA) TOYOTA (EGT). THEY INDICATED THAT THE TRANSMISSION WAS LOW ON FLUID (IT WAS NOT, I CHECKED) AND RECOMMENDED A FLUSH. THEY FLUSHED IT AND STATED IT WAS TESTED AND READY TO GO. PROBLEM WAS NOT SOLVED. EGT THEN STATED I NEEDED A NEW TRANSMISSION AND POSSIBLY A NEW ECM. I CHOSE TO RESEARCH THE PROBLEM AND TOWED MY VEHICLE HOME. A QUICK SEARCH REVEALED NUMEROUS COMPLAINTS ON RAV4 ECM PROBLEMS AND SEVERAL SECONDARY MARKETS REPAIRING THESE DEFECTIVE UNITS. SENT MY UNIT OUT AND HAD IT REPAIRED -PROBLEM SOLVED. IT APPEARS THAT TOYOTA IS NOT ACKNOWLEDGING THE PROBLEM WITH THE DEFECTIVE ECM. HAD I NOT RESEARCHED THIS, I WOULD PAID FOR A NEW TRANSMISSION AND ECM. IN DEFENSE OF EGT, THEY DID REIMBURSE ME FOR THE TRANSMISSION FLUSH, BUT THEY STILL INSISTED THAT I NEEDED A NEW TRANSMISSION. PLEASE ADD MY COMPLAINT TO ANY OTHERS YOU MAY HAVE REGARDING TOYOTA RAV4 ECM PROBLEMS, SO THAT TOYOTA MIGHT ADMIT THAT THERE IS A DEFECT IN THE UNITS. MY WIFE HAS ALWAYS SWORN BY TOYOTA PRODUCTS - THE RECENT SWEARING ASSOCIATED WITH TOYOTA IS NOT THE KIND A COMPANY WOULD COVET. *TR

TOYOTA 2001 RAV4 HESITATING TRANSMISSION. MECHANIC SAID THE TRANSMISSION COULD POSSIBLY BE DONE AND METAL IS GRINDING. STARTED ALL OF THE SUDDEN. DOES NOT SHIFT OUT OF GEAR FROM FIRST TO SECOND, ETC. DESCRIPTION OF EXACT PROBLEM IS HERE: HTTP://WHEELS.BLOGS.NYTIMES.COM/2009/08/26/TOYOTAS-REACTION-TO-TRANSMISSION-WOES-DRAWS-CUSTOMERS-IRE/#MORE-23445. *TR

2001 TOYOTA RAV 4 THE ACCELERATOR SUDDENLY BECAME STUCK FULL OPEN AT A SLOW SPEED. WAS ABLE TO BRING CAR TO STOP BY RIDING BRAKES AND TURNED ENGINE OFF. HAPPENED ONE TIME. CAR SEEMED FINE AFTER RESTARTING. NOTHING WAS DONE TO CORRECT BECAUSE NEVER COULD FIGURE OUT CAUSE AND HAS NEVER REPEATED. *TR

OUR RAV4 2001 ACCELERATED ON ITS OWN AFTER WE CAME TO A STOP AND RESULTED IN US CRASHING HEAD ON INTO A BRICK BUILDING WITHOUT THE AIRBAGS OPENING CAUSING TREMENDEOUS AMOUNT OF DAMAGE TO THE BUILDING BOTH AUTOS ON EACH SIDE AND OF COURSE OUR CAR. TWO DAYS BEFORE, IT ACCELERATED AGAIN AFTER WE CAME TO A COMPLETE STOP WAITING IN LINE FOR GAS JUST MISSING US CRASHING INTO A TRUCK.*AK

CONSUMER SET THE CRUISE CONTROL AT 35 MPH, AT THE NEXT BLOCK THE VEHICLE BEGAN SPEEDING AT 60MPH AND WAS CLIMBING, CONSUMER SHIFTED INTO NEUTRAL WHILE THE RPMS WENT TO 6000, CONSUMER THEN SHUT OFF THE IGNITION, DEALER FOUND THAT THE CRUISE CONTROL ACTUATOR WAS AT FAULT. *SLC

ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, WITH THE CAR IN PARK AND STILL RUNNING, VEHICLE WOULD MAKE A HUGE CLANKING NOISE AND WOULD SPEED FORWARD WITH UNCONTROLLABLE ACCELERATION, VEHICLE RECEIVED BODY DAMAGE, DEALER UNABLE TO LOCATE PROBLEM. *TT

ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, WITH THE CAR IN PARK AND STILL RUNNING, VEHICLE WOULD MAKE A HUGE CLANKING NOISE AND WOULD SPEED FORWARD WITH UNCONTROLLABLE ACCELERATION, VEHICLE RECEIVED BODY DAMAGE, DEALER UNABLE TO LOCATE PROBLEM. *TT

VEHICLE DOES NOT RETURN THROTTLE TO IDLE POSITION WHEN TAKING FOOT OFF GAS PEDAL. VEHICLE DOES NOT DECELERATE. WHEN PUT VEHICLE IN NEUTRAL OR PRESSED CLUTCH RPMS WOULD GO UP. CONTACTED DEALER, AND THEY STATED THIS WAS NORMAL.*AK

THE 2001 TOYOTA RAV4 HAS A SIGNIFICANT HESITATION PROBLEM UPON ACCERATION RESULTING IN, MY OPINION, AN EXTREMELY UNSAFE VEHICLE. AT RANDOM TIMES THERE IS VIRTUALLY NO POWER PRODUCED BY THE ENGINE FOR APPROX. 5-10 SECONDS WHEN THE ACCELERATOR IS DEPRESSED. THIS RESULTS IN A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION WHEN IN HEAVY TRAFFIC. THE DEALER, ADMITTING THERE IS A PROBLEM, CLAIMS THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT CAUSES IT, NOR DOES TOYOTA. I HAVE NARROWLY MISSED BEING HIT BY OTHER TRAFFIC WHEN I EXPECTED THE VEHICLE TO SMOOTHLY ACCELERATE OUT OF HARMS WAY WHEN IT DID NOT.*AK