On june 20 shortly before 6:00 pm I backed out of the parking space of our condo building, and I proceeded to drive the car with about 10 mls/hour toward a street cca 50 yards away. Before entering the street the car has to be stopped, however, without pressing the gas pedal, the car on its own accelerated. Immediately I applied the brakes, but the car did not respond. The car speeded into a grassy area, and from there to our overflow parking lot, and from there to a second parking lot. The tires burned the grass due to the applied brakes. Picture of the burned grass can be supplied if requested. The unstoppable car traveled about 170 yards. Due to the force by which the car hit four curves, the front tires were flattened and the front right wheel was severely damaged. The front end collapsed to the ground and the car finally stopped. My wife and myself were wearing the safety belts, which prevented to be thrown into the front windshield..my wife was sitting next to me, there were no other passengers in the car. In addition the force caused both of the front airbags to deploy. Minimizing the human damage. The airbags caused a second degree burn on my left arm as determined in the er. The airbag also hit the front of my face. And slightly burned the finger on her left hand. Needless to stay that we were extremely shaken and frightened. Upon exiting the car I called 911 and reported what happened. An unknown neighbor called an ambulance, which came very soon with a large fire truck. We were taken to the er of a local hospital. We spent at 4-5 hours in the er of the hospital where we were x-rayed. Even as of the date of this report, some 2 months after the accident both my wife and I remain extremely shaken by this traumatic experience. My wife's spinal problems were enhanced by the crash, and her condition is being monitored by specialists. The car was not on the recall list.. I suspect the original micro chip to cause the malfunction of the gas flow.
2003 Toyota Camry fuel system complaints
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Sudden increase in rpms as I was backing up my car up to my wood pile..it rammed into my wood pile and the wheels were still spinning when I finally turned off the car. Same thing happen when I was coasting up to a stop sign feb 2010.. Both times I put all the strength I could on the brake pedal to stop the car. It never stopped in 2009 but I did get it stopped on the 2010 incident because I put the car in neutral. Some minor damage to the back end of the car on the 2009 incident from the car hitting the stack of wood.. Went to the dealer and they said it was nothing they could do about it..
The gas filling tube is corroded, the result is the 'engine' trouble indicator is always on. My mechanic tells me that this occurs with all toyota camry's that are older than 5 years. Mine is a 2003 with 80,000 miles. The only solution is to replace the entire tube leading to the fuel tank. It seems that the metal corrodes and the gas cap cannot be sealed, the result is the engine indicator comes on the dash board.
The check engine light came on again and I scanned for codes which indicated code number 0456 leak in the fuel system. I have twice before had the same problem and each time had to clean a large amount of rust from the fuel filler neck to correct the problem. I had previously taken the car to the dealer and advised them of the problem. They advised if the check engine light came on again to bring it in for service. When the light came on this time the dealer scanned the same code and diagnosed the fuel filler neck and gas cap must be replaced at a cost of over $300. I contacted toyota corporation but they indicated the car was not covered. The car can not pass inspection because of the poor quality materials used in the fuel filler neck. Refer to complaint odi id number 10223726 dated september 10, 2007 with the same problem.
September of 2007- I noticed the check engine light came on in my 2003 toyota camry le car and I was due for a car inspection for the month of october. The dealership and other repair shops stated that the car would not pass the car inspection with that light on. On september 10th,2007, I took the car to a toyota dealership and a mechanic found a leak at the fuel filler neck. They replaced the fuel filler neck and cap. The costs were $225 for labor, $143.60 for parts, and $25.80 for sales tax for a total repair job of $394.40! The car was over 3 years old. That shouldn't be happening in a young car. I bought the car in october of 2005 from a toyota dealership. The complaint is why should the customers be paying for " poor quality" by the toyota manufacturer when I couldn't have passed a car inspection for their "poor quality " parts? If I can't pass an inspection then we have an emissions and safety issue by the fault of toyota.
With only 17000 mile on the car I had to have all the fuel injectors replaced and have the engine de-carbonize. Ealer replaced the injectors, charged me for the de-carbonize and suggested to switch often to different fuel manufactures and a remendy, but could not guarantee that it would not happen again.
We filled up our 2003 camry le at costco (on a monday). We shopped at costco and then drove about 17 miles to our home. We backed up our incline driveway and unloaded the trunk. We drove to safeway (about 2 miles away) that same day and dropped a relative at their house about a mile away. We drove a total of about 25 miles after the fill up at costco. The camry was not driven for the rest of the week until friday. On friday the car was driven no more than three miles before it started to hesitate and then stalled. It did this four times before getting back to the house. We had it towed to the toyota dealership for repair. We were told that we overflowed the fuel tank and the carbon canister was filled with gas. This caused the computer to stall the car out because it is sensing an over rich condition. The problem is we did not overfill the fuel tank and we drove it for far too long for this to be what caused the carbon filter to have gotten gas in it. Maybe backing up the driveway with a full tank caused the problem, but that is a flaw in the engineering of the car, not a mistake by the consumer. The repair and towing cost 780 dollars.
While driving 35 MPH, consumer depress brakes to make a stop. Without any indication, the vehicle surged. The driver tried to stop the vehicle but at an extended distance. In order to stop the vehicle the consumer shift gear into neutral.
Gas tank thump when starting from stop. Slight thump and heavy thump all depends how much fuel in tank. Suspension bolts tightened to factory specs. Parking brake out of adjustment coming up to high hard holding on hill and brake pedal to soft.
The fuel line under the driver side of the car had a crack in it that was leaking gas.
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