Anyone had complete failure of gas pedal?

Re: Has anyone had accelerator delay or failure?

The brake recall was not for correcting a software glitch but improper programming. Two different things.

 

Horsehead,
Do you happen to be a two foot driver? As in, do you usually rest your left foot lightly on the brake and press the gas with your right foot while driving? Does your friend also drive like this?

 

yes she does, and so does her friend. and many other people who in advertantly cause problems for themselves.

 

Re: Has anyone had accelerator delay or failure?

Ok, just a few questions and one hypothesis:

• How frequently?
• What time of day?
• How quickly does the cruise control 'blink out' when you touch the brake?

My first thought is your brake light switch may be too sensitive. The schematic suggests if the brake light switch should activate, it may induce the 'brake override' logic. This would make the accelerator appear to not function.

In your case, you might want to adjust the brake switch to be less sensitive. Check the 'cruise control' and "brake switch" postings.

Bob Wilson

 

It is operator error. Love how you and some others immediately point blame at the car and Toyota. All the media hype has everyones sense of awareness in overdrive. Stop panicing and drive the freakin car.

 

i had one problem i was driving the car and it felt like the engine wasnt on but clearly when i steped on the acselerator it increased its speed then the trafic light turned red on me and i had to use the brakes.when i finaly came to a full stop the engine was still not working. tell me what should i do this hapens to me all the time! i have had the car for 11 days and put 1600 kilomiters on it and it seems to be getting worst now the engine seems to stay of even when i step on the gas pedal to take of,it only comes on a bit now and then and it turns it self of just as fast as it turns on!:behindsofa:
in the 1600 kilomiters i put on the cab already i have screwed up many things trying to stop start my favorite is when a passenger pops up out of the blue and insted of pressing on the hazard lights i press on the parking position for the tranny ive managed to go in neutral a few times and some other manuvers i puled that i cant even imagine how i did them!

i am not stupid i hapen to own 4 diferent vehicles and all 4 of them have the shifter move a diferent way one from the other driver error is easyer than we care to realise to happen!the prius has definetly put a diferent control system on the car which is totaly abnormal and it makes it easy to fall in to paterns that are developed throughout the years of driving comon cars!


i still dont get why the engine turns its sellf of all the time and why the gas station owner seems trubled when he sees my taxi rolling in the gas station in silent mode gassing up faster then he can take the nosle of the pump back and forth from the car after a full day shift! the reciept takes longer to print for gods sake !!!!!

come to think of it i tried taking of a couple of times but didnt. some times when i am in a car i feel like a gold fish in a bowll MY MEMORY GETS ERASED EVERY 3 SECONDS!!!



but i realy hope its not something real you got going there with your 2010

 

It has happend twice to me as well but only a temporary for a few seconds with no power even with gas pedal press down all the way but then it comes back with full power and gives a surge.

 

I think you all are feeling the time it takes for the engine to go from 0 rpm to 3k (then continues to climb with speed) for WOT acceleration. Simply the nature of HSD.