2006 Toyota Tundra: sudden unintended acceleration

Filed May 8, 2012 · Acceleration · 100,000 miles · CA · crash

Tl* the contact owns a 2006 toyota tundra. The contact stated that while driving approximately 60 to 75 MPH, the front end of the vehicle vibrated violently. In addition, the vehicle suddenly accelerated to 100 MPH while the brake was depressed. The contact lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a cement wall. The contact did not have any injury to report. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer inspected the vehicle and concluded that nothing was wrong with it. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure and current mileages were 100,000.

Filed Jan 29, 2010 · Acceleration · AZ

Vehicle acceleration - have a toyota tundra 2006 and it had accelerated on its own. I was very lucky that I pressed both feet down on the brakes and turned the vehicle which made me go up on a sidewalk. I thought I was going to hit a wall but it did not. I then came home and called the place that we purchased the truck and was told to bring it in for another recall and that they would look at it. Upon picking up the truck we were told that they did not see anything that would have caused the acceleration. I now see that toyota is having such a problem so I wanted to report this. I am just so happy that I was not on a highway. I have two small children and I am now so worried about driving this truck.

Filed Jan 27, 2010 · Acceleration · GA

Tl*the contact owns a 2006 toyota tundra. The contact was driving approximately 5 MPH out of the driveway when the brake pedal traveled to the floor without resistance and pressure was applied, followed by an unintended acceleration. Suddenly, the gear shifter was placed into the "neutral" position and the engine was turned off. The vehicle restarted and resumed normal operation. The failure occurred intermittently. In addition, the front passenger power window released in a downward position without assistance while starting the ignition. The vehicle has not been repaired for the malfunctions. The failure mileage was unknown.

Filed Nov 29, 2009 · Acceleration · 37,000 miles · AZ

This complaint is to include odi #'s 10183308,10288886, and 10293097. The odi #'s are all for the same vehicle but are for different dates in which this vehicle had something to report that was different but were associated. This complaint is for an incident that occurred on nov. 27th 2009. I was parked almost all the way out of my garage. The vehicle was running and transmission was in park with emergency brake applied. Fortunately I was sitting behind the wheel and immediately shut the ignition off. I do not know the RPM's. My wife was getting into the truck on the passengers front. When all of a sudden the engine raced as it would have as described as "unintentional sudden acceleration". This was the second time that the truck did this except that the transmission was in park. Being out in the desert and this happening and being in the garage in park sends out to me a message that this truck has a glitch in it that now has happened twice. If I was not in the truck, god only knows what would have happened. I have reported the sudden acceleration to toyota already. Toyota has looked at the truck at my dealers and has sent the information to their legal dept. To decide what they will do. I have not reported the latest incident. The toyota people are supposed to call me monday the 30th. I shall tell them about this incident at that time. I have already told them that they should have impounded the vehicle but instead they let me drive the vehicle home. What needs to happen is toyota needs to buy the truck back and make me whole on the complete purchase price of the truck. Once that is done they can use my vehicle as a test truck.the floor mats are the correct toyota issued with one keeper. My gas pedal doesn't hang up, so possibly they will actually have to find the problem. I really hope they find what the issue is. But once they say that "it is fixed". I'll wait another year before I amuse myself to purchase another truck. I always trusted toyota but no more.

Filed Nov 21, 2009 · Acceleration, Fuel system · 36,000 miles · AZ

I am filing this complaint with reference to odi #' s 10183308 and 10288886. These odi's were put in by me. These are lead up's to this complaint. After the collision with the polaris I drove my vehicle home. The next day I drove the vehicle to tim's toyota in prescott az. Where the vehicle was purchased. They looked at the vehicle and said that they would call for a factory rep. To look at my vehicle. This was to be on nov. 9, 2009. I did drive my vehicle to yarnell az for deer season. I drove the vehicle back to prescott to meet with the factory rep. He did whatever they do and said he had all the information he needed. He also told me to go ahead and get an estimate for the repairs but not to have it repaired until I heard from toyota. The preliminary estimate is just shy of $2000.00. This estimate was given to jeff locke to be sent to toyota. My question to all of this is, why did toyota allow me to drive this vehicle after the meeting, when they know that I am driving a time bomb. Also why hasn't national highway safety involved itself into an investigation of its own? I now know the verbiage for the incident. It is called " sudden unintended acceleration" which is tied together with the cruise control, throttle body and other electrical, vacuum controlled , mechanical units. Look it up for yourselves. It will open your eyes to what is going on with this condition. My vehicle sits in my garage so anytime national highway safety wants to do an investigation is fine with me. Toyota has not done a proper evaluation of the issue. My insurance company is behind me 100% and is now going to contact toyota to try to find the cause for "sudden acceleration" and cruise control units to behave the way that they are. Racing to over 5000 RPM's and hunting gears the way they do is just not the way they are supposed to operate. Toyota would have us believe that a floor mat is at fault and now the whole pedal assembly. Or is it that we don't know the gas from the brake pedal?

Filed Oct 18, 2009 · Transmission · 36,000 miles · AZ · crash

Toyota tundra 2006 double cab 4wd automatic transmission. I was 4 wheeling and stopped behind a polaris, by approximately 5 feet. I was in drive and 4wd and brakes applied. I stopped because the polaris had stopped. All of a sudden with the brakes applied my tundra lunged forward at a very high RPM crashing into the polaris. At that point I put the transmission into park and shut the engine off. Had I not responded with the action I took I would have shoved the polaris with 2 people into a very deep wash. Needless to say there is a great deal of damage done to my toyota. The toyota has major damage to the front end. Had I not taken the action that I did, we all would have ended up in the deep wash with major injuries. When I arrived home I immediately called tim's toyota in prescott arizona where the vehicle was purchased. The 2 people that could help me with the situation were not available so a call to them tomorrow will be in order. I have not contacted my insurance as yet as I feel that toyota is the responsible party for the accident. I had written to you quite a long time ago regarding the cruise control surging to 5000 RPM's when approaching even a minor incline. So I don't use it anymore. I am afraid to drive my truck into my garage for fear that the truck will lunge forward, only this time it will crash into my HVAC and water heater, both are on propane.