Toyota camry ce manual transmission. When car is in first gear driving about 10-15mph and pedal is released car accelerates on its own then, even after pedal is released, then when brake is applied the car jerks back and fourth. This mostly occurs when car is first turned on. Dealership says, and I quote "it is normal and makes me feel like I don't know how to drive a stick shift" due to the jerking.
2007 Toyota Camry transmission complaints
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Soon after purchasing the car, we discovered a terrible problem with the cars acceleration. It only happened intermittently; when you were slowing then had to accelerate quickly. Pressing the gas pedal would result a long hesitation. This very often put the driver in danger. Soon after the purchase, we took the car into the toyota dealer. They told us that the car was operating as designed with the new computer system that adjusts to drivers habits. We have been living with this problem for almost 2 years now, and have decided to get rid of the car. Prior to selling it, I did a search on the internet looking to see if anyone else was experiencing the problem. I found an article at this consumer affairs link. Http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/10/toyota_accelerate.html.
2007 camry hesitates to accelerate from ramp to interstate or into traffic on busy streets. Very dangerous. Dealership states that the car needs to self-adjust to my driving habits in its computer. It still hesitates on occasion after two years of owning it. Dealership denies being able to reproduce the problem when they test-drive it.
Tl*the contact owns a 2007 toyota camry. Whenever the contact decelerates from 20 MPH and then begins to accelerate, the vehicle stalls for 1-5 seconds before accelerating. The vehicle was taken to the dealer and the contact was informed that the failure was a characteristic of the vehicle and would repair itself over time. The failure still persists. The current mileage was 37,000 and failure mileage was 23,000. Updated 09/10/08. *lj updated 09/16/08.
I have a 2007 camry se v6that hesitates before it accelerate. I read that a lot of other owners has the same problem .what is toyota doing about it?what can owners do to get satisfaction about this problem.
Car hesitates during acceleration. Also gets stuck in certain gear at times, especially when going downhill. Car jerks a couple times a week when accelerating. Has been happening since the beginning. Dealers did tbs and no change. Say that it is not a problem and nothing they can do. Scared to let kids drive.
2007 toyota camry le, 4 cyl, 5-spd automatic trans=these cars should be recalled; mine stumbles, hesitates, shifts too soon or not at all, acts like it will stall, clunks/snaps/shutters when shifting from/to park/reverse/drive. These cars(mine included) are putting people in dangerous situations. My dealer (twice) tried to "reprogram the computer software" but the car still acts up!!! Make toyota do something before myself & others get killed !!!!
My 2007 camry le v6 only has 23,000 miles on it and the transmission hesitated when accelerating. The gear does not shift and the car slows down. Very scary. Almost got hit on freeway when it did this.
2007 camry-transmissions hesitates-was in 3 + times to correct...not corrected. The vehicle is dangerous and very unsafe. Was recalibrated twice, problem still exists. Have had numerous near miss accidents due to this hesitation in the transmission. Went through toyota arbitration, was denied. There is a real design defect with this vehicle and should be considered very unsafe to operate.
2007 toyota camry car has a bad hesitation when accelerating onto freeway or when downshifting and then trying to accelerate. Had toyota dealer check car and they said everything operated normally. The situation can be dangerous and could easily lead to an accident. The lag is 1.5-2 seconds from the time of pushing the throttle hard.
My 2007 camry se v6 has a serious problem with hesitation. It has a 2 second delay when coming into traffic. When the car is driving and then coasts at one speed, and you try to move into another lane by pressing the gas, the car waits and then jolts forward. This is a serious problem because it can lead to being rear ended by other traffic. You know there is plenty of time to get in, but the car reduced much of that time, by not going anywhere.
After taking my camry xle into the dealer for a "check vsc system" warning on the dash, and some unusual shifting and hesitation, they said it was taken care of. The problem came back within a few days and worsened. While on the freeway the transmission completely gave out and the car was completely immobile, with only 30,000 on the car. Dealer sent away for a new transmission and replaced it with a note that it had been soaked in an unknown fluid, and their could be some residual liquid in the new transmission. The "check vsc light" still flicks on occasionally at start up.
2007 camry had hesitation problem, dealership reset the computer, it was ok for a few months. After the few months the car has the hesitation problem again. Hard to accelerate, does not like to go when you try to pull out or when you try to change lanes.
I purchased a 2007 toyota camry in sept. 2006. After driving the car for several days, with less than a 1000 miles, I realized that there was a serious problem with acceleration; delayed accelerations when trying to attain speed, when driving around 40 miles the car performs like a manual transmission that requires shifting down to a lower gear to gain speed,and when driving on an incline there is a noticeable drop in speed. I reported the problem to dick dyer toyota, the dealership where I purchased the car. On or about the third visit I was told that they had received a computer update to correct the problem. After the update the problem persisted. I continued to complain. To summarize the ordeal, I complained to toyota's national center for dispute settlement. The matter went into arbitration. In the hearing I had one other person, and the name of five (5) other people who owned 2007toyota camry who were experiencing the same problems. The toyota representative, regina williams agreed that she had heard the same concerns that I have from other customers. Being an owner of two previous toyota camrys I compared the performance. Ms. Williams said the cars could not be compared, that the car is performing the way it s suppose to, and that it is just engineered different. The outcome from the arbitration side with ms. Williams/ toyota, saying that the vehicle is operating according to manufacturer's specifications; that there is no defect but is a characteristic of the particular make and model. I am very discouraged and don't believe I should have to pay price for poor engineering. All I wanted was a new car. No one has been injured in my automobile so far. But I feel awful ly insecure when driving, particular on interstate. This is a serious problem and I don't want to wait for something to happen for people to understand the poor engineering of this particular model.thank you for you attention to this matter.
I have noticed these sometimes dangerous behaviors by my car and its transmission: + when I brake, instead of down shifting, the transmission shifts up and causes the car to roll faster ' accelerating. + on a downhill slope, sometimes the transmission downshifts unexpectedly and causes the car to suddenly slow. + downshifting from 4th gear to 3rd is a hard shift. + especially dangerous is when I accelerated (highway merge lane) and the transmission up-shift hesitates. I am very concerned about the transmissions unpredictable shifting performance. Most recently when I was merging onto an interstate, as I approached the merging speed, the transmission hesitated as I accelerated, and I was unable to merge safely ' I had to pull onto the emergency lane to avoid a collision. The sudden up-shifting when I apply the brakes has caused several close calls of a rear end collision. The sudden downshifting on a slope has caused me to lose control on snow-covered roadways.
I purchased a 2007 toyota camry le in april of 2006. There is a hesitation when attempting to accelerate. It's a major safety concern when attempting to enter a highway or pass another car . When I press the acceleration, the car hesitates and after a few seconds it accelerates.
I purchased a 2007 toyota camry le in april 2007. There is a hesitation when attempting to accelerate. It's a major safety concern when attempting to enter a highway. When I press the acceleration, the car hesitates and after a few seconds, it will jerk forward.
My transmission hesitates at @35mph. Toyota says it's a no-fix. It is a dangerous situation to not know when this will happen. It's bound to cause an accident at some point. This is a constant situation since I bought the car in june 2006, and it now has 32,000 miles. It occurs constantly.
Intermittently, the vehicle will not respond to the throttle. The problem happens frequently, particularly when I brake and decelerate from above 30mph, then make a turn, such as exiting an off ramp, at about 5-20 MPH, I press the accelerator to accelerate out of the turn, and the throttle does not respond for about 3 to 15 seconds. I consider this a serious safety issue where I cannot depend on the vehicle responding to the throttle allowing me to control the vehicle. This problem happens under other circumstances, and is completely unpredictable, but the above scenario is the most consistent. I took the vehicle to toyota for this issue for the second time and was told: '..that is the way it is..' and "..this is how the fly-by-wire system works in the camry.." by the service tech of power toyota irvine on tuesday apr 29. He acknowledged that it is a safety issue and encouraged me to speak with the tech robert who knows how to work around the issue by manipulating the throttle and recommended that I complain directly to toyota. He also mentioned that if I bug toyota, they will be motivated to '.. Fix the software, put a new computer in it, or take care of you some other way..'
When pressing the accelerator petal the car doesn't pick up speed from a stop. It is delayed. Another incident occurred when I was stopped at a traffic light the car went it to neutral. But the final straw was when I had parked on my drive way(4/25/08) which is sort of a incline I had put my car in park and as a extra safety precaution I pressed my emergency brake upon doing so the car malfunctioned and switched gears and rolled down my driveway pulling me under as I stepped out the car and running over my foot crushing it. When the car was taken to the dealership that said there must have been a computer error which they then reset the system.
I have toyota camry le 4-cyl for approx. 1 yr now and it constantly hesitates when I am driving or if I am at a stop and try to pull off. My car have been in 3 accidents because my car fail to acelerate when needed from a stop sign. I have gotten to the point I am constantly looking in my rear view because I am so afraid I am going to get hit from the back of my car. I have called the dealer on numerous occasions and was told it has something to do with the relay system of some sort, but no problem that is the way the '07's operate. There definitely should be some type of recall by now. What is it going to take for me or someone else life.
I own a 2007 toyota camry, and I am having transmission problems. When I give my car a little gas it hesitate and then out of know where my car takes off. Or when I am driving it seems if I am driving a 5 speed. I have to give my car more gas in order for it to go to the next gear. I should not be able to feel my car shifting gears.
This vehicle was purchased used from hertz corp. During the test drive we noticed a hesitation when attempting to accelerate at speeds between 25 and 45 MPH. We also drove another 2007 camry with higher mileage and it did not have the hesitation problem. We asked hertz to have a toyota dealer check out the problem. The computer was 'fixed' with a software update. The problem still occurred so it was taken to another dealer. Everything was 'ok'. The statement was made by that toyota service adviser that the computer uses a program to determine the driving habits of each driver and the hesitation problem would 'self correct'. Yeah right. We purchased the lower mileage vehicle, and have driven almost another 5,000 miles, however the problem did not 'self correct'; in fact it appears to have worsened. The vehicle was again taken to a third toyota service department on march 24, 2008 with the same verbal footwork that it's a drive-by-wire system and nothing can be done to correct what I consider to be a potentially dangerous condition. Some day I may need to accelerate hard to avoid an accident or whatever and I would like to have instant acceleration instead of a 1-3 second delay. Considering the high tech systems available to the automotive industry, I find it unconscionable that toyota cannot fix the problem. I've reviewed the federal safety agency complaints web site, edmonds, and other sites and find this problem is pervasive with other toyota vehicles. I'm requesting that a defects investigation be initiated to analyze and develop a solution to this problem before this throttle/transmission hesitation issue results in injury or death.
Hesitation, surge.
I have had my computer "software" re-installed 2x to attempt to fix a lack of acceleration. Several times (making a left turn) while starting from a stop, the car will hesitate for 2-4 seconds, giving approaching cars enough time to come close to hitting my car. This has happened numerous times. I am afraid to drive this car and am not in a financial position to trade it in yet or sell it outright. I owe too much on the loan yet to do so, making it a difficult decision with my family/children. I have noticed that the slow acceleration is more so in warm weather. It doesn't seem to flare-up over wintertime. Coincidence? I also wanted to mention that the last time my software was re-set, on the way home, the engine began ro race and it felt like a brick was on the gas pedal. The engine raced for about 10 seconds and then felt like it "shifted" back to normal RPM's. I was going down a hill when this happened.
I purchased a 2007 toyota camry, v-6, in july 2006. In november 2006, I started having problems with the transmission. Very often, when the transmission shifts from 2nd to 3rd gear, the transmission hesitates, the tachometer jumps around 1500 and the car does not move for a short time. This happens on a daily basis. I have had the car into the dealer, 4 or 5 times, and have gone on test drives. When the problem happened, I was told that's the way the transmission works. I have called toyota on two separate occasions. I have been told that there is no software update or tsb for this problem. The last person I spoke with (last month), told me it is a design flaw, but toyota has not done anything to correct the problem. I consider this a safety issue, since I don't always get the acceleration that I need. Consumer reports reported on this problem in their december 2007 issue. They received negative information from readers about the v-6 transmission. I have been told by toyota that there is nothing they can do at this time.
2007 toyota camry le, 5-speed, 4-cylinder has a drivetrain problem. When moving slowly from a stop, attempting to pull into traffic requiring rapid acceleration results in no response/acceleration from the engine. The car can take up to 5-seconds to respond. This is highly dangerous and I wonder why I haven't already been killed in this car!! There is a major problem with acceleration. Toyota simply says "that's the way it works, it's trying to anticipate your actions." this is an unacceptable answer. The transmission I am told is a controlled electronically and toyota apparently has screwed up the software. This is a dangerous car.
We own a 2007 toyota camry se and honestly don't know what to do at this point, our experience has been terrible. Approximately november of 07, I was driving down the conejo grade in camarillo, california and started to feel like I was losing control of the car, I couldn't steer it and hit the brakes really hard to come to a stop without hitting any other vehicles. The car was towed to toyota who explained that the transmission needed to be replaced and the reason why I couldn't steer my car was something to do with how the transmission rotates the wheels and one wheel was pointed towards the right and one was where it should be. I could have been killed or hurt someone else and I was very upset especially after hearing that I wasn't the only one this has happened to. At this time I was told that my brakes were warped and I had to pay $180.00 to fix them, apparently when I hit my breaks real hard to try and stop the car without crashing I warped the breaks. This wasn't under warranty. I received the car back approximately a week later and was told they put in a new transmission. When I left the dealership the engine still didn't feel right it was lunging. So I brought the car back and they did a test drive with me in the car and of course it didn't do it. I have had off and on issues and now my maintenance light is on, after being at the dealership for the last 10 days with other issues. I have no trust or faith at this point with them. Most of all, the car doing it's own driving with the transmission and the failing of mine could have killed me or someone else. How many complaints need to be made before someone gets hurt. The 2007 camry is a problem, and honestly I'm afraid to drive it at this point.
I purchased a 2007 toyota camry on december 24, 2006. On monday, february 11, 2008 I shifted the car into reverse and put my foot on the gas, the car didn't move. It revved but didn't move. I shifted to drive and second with the same result. I brought the car in to toyota in hempstead, ny on feb. 18. They fixed it by "reprogramming the computer,: and returned the car to me, saying it was fine. The problem occurred again on saturday, february 23. I asked about getting a new transmission because I have read a lot of information that this particular transmission is bad. I would like toyota to recall and replace all of these transmissions. I would hate to have an accident or for anyone else to have an accident because of a transmission malfunction.
2007 camry transmission bolts, jerks, snap your body and at 40 miles an hour with foot off of gas pedal continues to keep moving at almost same 40 mile hr speed for many blocks. Dangerous because brake pedal has to be pushed harder than normal in order to stop car from moving. Many 2007 camry's have similar problems if you will just check internet reports.
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