Tl* the contact owns a 2001 toyota echo. The contact stated that while driving at 20 MPH, the vehicle accelerated without warning. The vehicle crashed into a house garage door and the air bags failed to deploy. The contact sustained a waist injury and the front passenger sustained chest and arm injuries which required medical attention. A police report was filed. The vehicle was destroyed. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was not available.
Toyota Echo no deployment problems
32 of the 195 owner complaints about the Toyota Echo describe airbags did not deploy in a crash, most of them for the 2000 model year.
- owner complaints
- 32
- worst model year
- 2000
- typical mileage
- 40,000
Is there a fix? No recall or service bulletin covers this area of the car yet.
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What owners say
Tl* the contact owns a 2000 toyota echo. While driving approximately 10 MPH, the vehicle suddenly accelerated to approximately 60 MPH. The contact lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a shed. The air bags failed to deploy. A police report was filed. The front passenger sustained a right shoulder and knee injury that required medical attention. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 108,000.
Another vehicle ran a stop sign, and my mother in law was unable to brake fast enough and collided head on. The car had quite a lot of damage, and had to be towed away (for safety reasons). However, the airbag failed to deploy!!!! The collision was enough to incapacitate the radiator and it was head-on (not side or anything like that). Given the circumstances, I would expect the airbag to deploy, and the police were amazed that it didn't. She was wearing a seatbelt, which saved her from the worst. Please investigate this, as many vehicles of this type are registering the same issue!
Tl*the contact owns a 2005 toyota echo. The contact was driving 40 MPH when he tried to slow down and was unable to do so. A crash occurred and the vehicle was destroyed. The driver stated that the frontal air bags did not deploy. The failure and current mileages were 75000.
I was driving down a 4 lane highway (us 29 s), when a car tried to turn into the median three cars ahead of me. One car swerved to avoid the front two vehicles. When they did I was able to see the cars trying to stop. I slammed on my brakes, by the time I did it was too late. So going about 65 with about 50 feet of stopping distance I guess I was going 40 - 50 MPH. I could not move to the other lane since there was tractor trailer in the other lane. So I rear ended the vehicle in front of me. Impacting on the driver side front corner. My airbags failed to deploy. The following day inspecting the damage, the air bag sensor was right next to the damaged area and should have been able to pick up the impact.
I was involved in a frontal crash yesterday (october 12,2006). The reason for my complaint was that the crash was pretty bad, the whole front of my car was totaled and the air bags did not deploy. I had my seat belt, but the impact made me hit the steering wheel. The police even asked if I had airbags, once they checked that it did, they were amazed they didn't deploy.
Dt: the contact owns a 2005 toyota echo. The vehicle was purchased on july 14, 2004. The consumer felt vibration in the front end, the shock absorbers leaked and the door latches were broken. The vehicle was taken back to the dealership where they fixed the leaking shock absorbers and broken door latches . The window sticker stated that it would get 39 miles per gallon of gas when it only got 24 to 27 miles per gallon of gas. The vehicle would not stay in overdrive. A week ago the vehicle was in a front end collision and upon impact the air bags did not deploy. The vehicle was totaled. The consumer sustained back, neck, left shoulder and a right knee injuries. A police report was taken. There were no fires. *ak (11/30/05) other problems: transmission shifted hard, engine noise (ticking/rattleing), the brakes squeaked, there were loud interior squeaks, pulling to the right and rough idle.
Dt: as of august 17, 2005 there was single car accident in which the car rolled 3 times, and the air bags did not deploy. The speed was 45 MPH when this happened, there was a blown tire that caused the car to strike an embankment., and when consumer tried to correct the vehicle it rolled. Car was towed to consumer's residence where an insurance adjustor was going to make an assessment on this accident. No repairs or no dealer. Didn't know why air bags did not deploy. Had not contacted toyota at this time.
Consumer's vehicle was struck from behind by another vehicle at about 5 MPH. In turn, consumer's vehicle hit the car in front. Upon impact the air bags did not deploy. *ak
Brakes failed to stop vehicle when applied, and it rear ended another vehicle. Upon impact, air bags did not deploy. No injuries reported. Vehicle was towed, and totaled by the insurance company.
Related recalls
No recalls on record for this model year.
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The model years with the most reports are 2000 (16 complaints), 2001 (9 complaints) and 2002 (4 complaints).
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