2010 Toyota RAV4: ABS light or ABS activating

Filed Jan 10, 2018 · Steering · CA

My car is toyota 2010 rv4 sport.this morning when I start engine, the symbols of "electric power steering system warning light , ABS, airbag, breaker , slip indicator warning light" on dashboard all lights on. That's never happen before. And when I was driving, the steering wheel become heavy. I was so shocked and go to a local auto service store, they check and told me this is electronic steering motor issue. They adjusted and wheel back to normal now, but they also mention they can not guarantee the same situation will be back or not. And they recommend me try to avoid drive on freeway ( but this is impossible if you live in california). I was told the same problem happen on toyota recall group but not including my car's make year.

Filed Nov 17, 2015 · Brakes · 47,000 miles · WA · crash

I was driving on the freeway. The traffic was stop and go. I was going 10mph when the truck in front of me stopped. I applied my brakes and nothing happened. I pushed the brakes to the floor with both feet and still nothing. I hit the back of the truck in front of me. No damage to the truck just my front end. I got over to the shoulder and the brakes worked fine. I noticed that when I was braking my ABS light was flashing. I took it to the dealership. They said that they had never heard of that happening. But was I aware of a service recall on the smart stop technology. I said no I haven't. I was told that the "recall came out in 2013" funny because my car had been to the dealership in 2014. Why was it not taken care of then. I have read that others have had this similar problem and where told that there is nothing wrong. I am very thankful I was only going 10 MPH or it could of been alot worse.

Filed Jan 4, 2013 · Brakes · 53,450 miles · WI · crash

I was driving up to traffic light to stop and I went to brake and my brake pedal seized up! It felt like it got stuck and would not engage, causing me to have no brakes and I hit car in front of me. I had no brakes and I could not stop! I have been cited for hitting someone from behind and there was nothing I could do to stop! I believe my ABS- antilock braking system some how caused my brakes to seize up and become inoperable.

Filed Mar 16, 2012 · Brakes · OH

S10 appropriate handling- letter to the secretary from re copy of letter addressed to mr james lentz, president and ceo of toyota motor sales, regarding safety problems with the 2010 toyota rav 4 *tgw the consumer stated when there was snow on the street with slipper road conditions, the ABS engaged, which made the brakes inoperable. The consumer stated she has been to the dealer on several occasions, only to be told there was nothing wrong. There have been several situations, where the vehicle would not stop when the ABS engaged. On one occasion, the consumer had to push the brake all the way to the floor and eventually landed in the middle intersection of oncoming traffic. The second time, she almost rear ended another vehicle, when suddenly the vehicle accelerated when she applied the brake. The only way, she was able to stop the vehicle, was by turning into another lane which caused the ABS to go off which rendered the brakes to work again.

Filed Feb 9, 2011 · 5,508 miles · WA

Accelerated problem: I was on my way home from having maintance work completed on car. My first thought was that toyota had done some thing that created this problem. I was coasting and braking coming up to stop light, which was red, I was going about 1-2 miles per hour, when RPM's went very high. Could not stop car with one foot on brake, needed to use both feet on brake peddle to get control of car, almost hit car in front of me. I was able to stop car apprx 1-2 feet from car in front of me. Brakes or tires were making very loud noise. My wife said that tact was straight up, which is in the area of 7-8 thousand RPM's. Motor was very loud. Once I had control of car I put the car in neutral and car was still roaring, I turned the motor of. When light turned green and cars in front of me pulled away, I again started my car up and appeared to running normal. The only thing that I saw was different was a symbol came on dash board, in bottom right side. It was in yellow with a car and wavy tire tracks which I was told was the ABS system. This light stayed on for several minutes and went out. On 01/17/2011, I took the car back to toyota of lake city and they said that everything checked out and could not find any problem with car and could not get to duplicate again. I was told that I could take car home, but found out later that according to toyota rules, I should not have been able to drive car home. Tech was trying to get a hold of toyota head qtrs, but I found out later, toyota head qtrs was closed. Not happy with this and asked for further tests. I brought the car back again on 01/26/2011 and was told that field technician ran further tests on car, toyota had the car for 2 days. I was told that everything checked out and nothing further could be done. They needed the car to accelerate again, while toyota had the car to determine what went wrong.