The contact owns a 2016 Toyota. The contact stated that while driving forward into a parking space, the vehicle suddenly experienced unintended acceleration and crashed into a building wall. During the incident, the front end of the vehicle was severely damaged but the air bags did not deploy. The driver sustained a neck injury and the front passenger sustained a bruised rib, both required medical treatment. A police report was taken at the scene and the vehicle was towed away. The cause of the failure was not yet determined. The local dealer and manufacturer were notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 74,000.
2016 Toyota Corolla: sudden unintended acceleration
5 of the 216 complaints about the 2016 Toyota Corolla describe sudden unintended acceleration.
- owner complaints
- 5
- of this car's complaints
- 2%
- recalls
- 0
Is there a fix? No recall or service bulletin covers this area of the car yet.
Sudden unintended acceleration by model year
What owners say
2016 toyota corolla. Consumer writes in regards to unintended acceleration. *ld the consumer stated upon depressing the brake to pull into a parking space, the vehcle lunged forward into a guard rail.
I was pulling in to parking space at a very low speed. My car started to accelerate and lunged into pared car in front of me. Causing damage to other car and mine. I had my foot on the brake but it didint stop the car. A couple if days before the same thing happened to my husband when he was pulling into parking place and car started to accelerate and lunged forward. We got back the results from toyota and the said their was nothing wrong with the car. They won't take responsibility for the car. We are left with a car that we are to afraid to drive. We know that it will happen again but just don't know when.
I had eased in my parking space and all of a sudden my car started to excelerate and lunged forward and hit the parked car in front of me. There was nothing I could do but watch helplessly. It's was like the car had a mind of its own. I couldn't understand what happened. I did put my foot on brake it didint help.it was 10: 15 am. I was praking to pick up my dog from groomer. It was on 10/24/17. It was a clear mild morning.I notified our insurance to report damage to my bumper and the other cars bumper. Then called toyota dealer and took our car in to toyoga. They gave me a number to call to report this and make a claim. Now we are waiting for someone to go and inspect our car. My husband had the same thing happen to him just a few days eariler where car excelerated, and he had to put on emergency brake.we both know it was not anything we did but it was the cars fault.very scared to ever get in that car again.
Tl* the contact owns a 2016 toyota corolla. While driving at a low speed, the vehicle independently accelerated without warning. The contact crashed into another vehicle. The air bags did not deploy. A police report was not filed. The vehicle was driven away by the contact. There were one injury that required medical attention. The dealer and the manufacturer were not contacted. The failure mileage was approximately 11,800.
Related recalls
No recalls on record for this model year.
Questions about the 2016 Toyota Corolla sudden acceleration
Is sudden unintended acceleration a common problem on the 2016 Toyota Corolla?
5 of 216 owner complaints about the 2016 Toyota Corolla (2%) mention sudden unintended acceleration. The model year with the most reports is 2010.
Is there a recall or service bulletin for this on the 2016 Toyota Corolla?
There is no recall or service bulletin for this area of the car on record.
Other symptoms on the 2016 Toyota Corolla
No deployment 34Grinding brakes 13Check engine light 9CVT failure 8Headlights 8Brake failure 6Transmission failure 6Tire blowout 5
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