2004 Toyota Corolla: adaptive cruise control problems

Filed May 31, 2013 · Acceleration · 58,000 miles · AZ

Cruise control doesn't work. I had it repaired at the dealership and about a month later it went out again. When I called back, they said they would repair it, but it would not be free of charge. Seemed like the repair should have lasted if it truly was fixed. Haven't had cruise since and it was so nice for long distance travel.

Filed Sep 19, 2011 · Acceleration · 66,771 miles · CA · crash

Tl* the contact owns a 2004 toyota corolla. The contact was driving with the cruise control set to approximately 70 MPH. When the brakes were applied to disable the cruise control, the vehicle would not respond and instead, accelerated abnormally. The brake pedal fell into the floorboard and the contact applied the emergency parking brake but the vehicle still would not respond and the contact crashed into the rear of a vehicle. The vehicle was towed to a dealer and the manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The manufacturer had an engineer inspect the vehicle who was unable to duplicate the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The approximate failure mileage was 66,771.

Filed Jul 1, 2010 · Acceleration · 86,000 miles · AZ

Cruise control can be activated at typical road/highway speeds even when car is in neutral (on a manual transmission). As a result, the accelerator is electronically depressed, causing the engine to rev and hit the rev limiter. There are multiple ways to deactivate the cruise control, but the stress could be damaging on the engine and the scenario could a major distraction to the driver.

Filed Feb 23, 2010 · Acceleration · 25,000 miles · ME

My 2004 corolla le is the first vehicle I have owned that has cruise control. When I am driving at highway speeds and engage the cruise control, it holds a steady speed. When the vehicle encounters an incline, such as a bridge or a hill, it will downshift and continue to accelerate well beyond the speed set. Every instance that this has happened I have been able to simply disengage the cruise control within 5 to 10 MPH above the set speed, but it seems as though the vehicle would continue to accelerate as long as it was on the incline. Thinking this is how cruise control worked, not having used it before, I never took it to a dealer and simply turn it off when encountering an incline.. In light of the recent toyota acceleration issues, I thought this information would be useful to the federal safety agency.

Filed Feb 9, 2010 · Steering · 4,950 miles · FL · crash · 1 injury

I took my 2004 toyota in for service for steering problems 8 times, between the date of purchase in april 2004 and september 2004. I was driving on I-75 on the southbound side in wildwood florida, on a dry sunny day - the car began to lose control, after I moved to the left to avoid a collision with a car incoming from my right side - there was small contact by the unknown vehicle, which continued. I was unable to steer out of the problem, at first, and the car went to the left side parking strip. When I tapped the brake to slow the car, it did not lose speed. I began to steer out of left lane, onto the highway, but then while I was steering right, the car steered itself to the left. I am certain that the car failed to allow the cruise control to release. I reported all of this at the time of the incident. This was ignored by toyota. The reports of the problem using the lemon law were also denied, and toyota would not support me when I made contact with them on several attempts, between april 2004 (on purchase) and the incident. The service managers at gatorland toyota refused to acknowledge the problem. I purchased this in ocala, florida. The owner of that dealership also refused to listen when I wrote and spoke to him about the problem. I purchased the car from that dealership. I have all of the material that was submitted to toyota, and to arbitration. It was a vibration and steering problem that I reported, however, I believed at time, that the car may have held the dealer (deluca, in ocala florida) installed cruise control that may have contributed. This was likely a pedal problem. At the time, I thought it was cruise. I took the car to deluca toyota requesting repair about 5 times (have documents) and to gainesville, fl toyota, 3x, & with a scheduled representative (regional) inspection. The all refused to acknowledge a problem. The claimed to have aligned the front end & balanced tires (a vibration issue). No change. They then refused.

Filed Dec 14, 2005 · Acceleration · SC

My husband was driving my 2004 corolla-s. He had the cruise control set for 75 MPH. I looked down at the speedometer because it seemed he was speeding up and noticed the speed at 90 MPH. He couldn't take it off cruise control so he hit the brakes and a shortly after the cruise control light came off. We did start slowing down when he used the brakes.