2016 Toyota Tacoma: hesitation when accelerating

Filed Mar 7, 2021 · Transmission · 84,700 miles · MA

Vehicle hesitates from park to drive and slowing to turn or going uphill even on speeds up to 50mph

Filed Jan 23, 2020 · Acceleration, Engine · 40,400 miles · NY

Car hesitates when needing to accelerate rapidly. While slowing down the car feels like it is pushing ,not down shifting fast enough. The differential bang at time when coming to a stop, it seems like it is not disengaging. I think there is a programming issue that toyota is not admitting to. I also heard that there is a blower issue. The transmission disengages at different speeds when you go to accelerate then don't and then do. Car goes into neurtal hunting for a gear

Filed Dec 22, 2018 · Transmission · 24,500 miles · SC

Transmission shakes vehicle in lower gears when slowing down to a stop. Transmission hesitates and hard jerks when shifting from reverse to drive .

Filed Nov 27, 2018 · Engine · UT

Hesitation upon acceleration at times.

Filed Jun 3, 2017 · Transmission · 20,000 miles · AZ

Brought my 2016 toyota tacoma in for 20,000 mile service to right toyota on may 5th 2017. Was told by service manager my truck rear differential was leaking and was under recall. They would have to hold my vehicle. They were not sure when toyota would come up with a repair. I called right toyota on may 30th to see if my vehicle was any closer to being repaired. Was told toyota still does not have a procedure for repair yet. Nor did they know when they would. My vehicle also had a hesitation when I took it in for service. So I still don't have my truck back that I use for my business. They say it is unsafe to drive. No time frame of how long for repair. Has been a month now.

Filed Apr 17, 2017 · Acceleration, Engine · 10,005 miles · UT

Tl* the contact owns a 2016 toyota tacoma. The contact stated the vehicle experienced hesitation and the engine de-powering. The failure occurred without warning. The vehicle was taken to the dealer where it was diagnosed that once the accelerator pedal was depressed before the vehicle recognized the speed the software caused the engine to de-power for intervals of one to two seconds before the vehicle would operate normally. A remedy was not disclosed. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 10,005.

Filed Sep 21, 2016 · Transmission · TN

Transmission has hesitation when first going in forward or reverse, once your driving the transmission is constantly shifting searching for gears until you get up to cruising speed of 50-60 MPH. In city driving transmission shift to quickly and boggs down the engine and then shift right back down and gear and does this constantly at lower speeds, been doing this since I purchased the truck on august 28 2016

Filed Jul 29, 2016 · Engine, Transmission · LA

It's important to note that I own two identical 2016 tacoma trd off road automatic and both have less than 10,000 miles. One is fine and the other has serious power train (engine/transmission) problems resulting in extremely slow acceleration and overall sluggish performance, transmission constantly shifting to compensate for lack of power, transmission slow to engage gears causing dangerous hesitation and surge, occasionally slamming into gear causing sudden jerk and lunge, cruise control in unusable due to constant gear hunting even on flat highway, vehicle is very unsafe in stop and go traffic due to hesitation and surging, and merging into traffic and busy high speed highway travel is a nightmare. The following business day after taking delivery I brought to dealer with the above complaints and was told that the computer needed to lean my driving style and it would take up to 5,000 miles. At one point dealership service tech, service adviser, and service manager acknowledged the problems and I was told that toyota was already aware and working on a flash upgrade that they hoped would fix. I was told that I had no choice but to drive the vehicle and wait for the flash. Dealership personnel now deny any problems. I filed a claim with toyota and dealer now refuses to try and fix the problems. This model is being shipped with very low transmission fluid according to the service tech which is certain to diminish the life of the transmission. He also said that something is wrong with the torque converter. I have filed a claim for repurchase but dealership is uncooperative and toyota reports that after reviewing my claim that they were unable to verify any of my concerns. There are many owners reporting to be experiencing the same problems and to date toyota has done nothing to resolve that I am aware of.