Problems with 2005 Toyota Sienna VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL

Consumer states: his car hesitates when he accelerates. he just bought the car 2 weeks ago and it has been doing it since he bought the car. it mainly happens when he is slowing down, when he presses the gas pedal; it takes about 1 or 2 seconds to engage. he is concerned this will happen in congested traffic. he has not yet talked to the dealer. he has not yet talked to the manufacturer but he plans on doing that today. consumer was only able to provide the city, state and phone number of the dealer. *nm

Tl*the contact owns a 2005 toyota sienna. the contact stated that when slowing down to make a turn or slowing down with the accelerator pedal was depressed, the vehicle would not respond and suddenly the vehicle lunged forward. the vehicle lunged forward then vehicle began function normally. the dealer stated that they could not duplicate the failure. the service manager also stated that there were no recalls or defect investigations related to the failure. the failure continued to occur intermittently. the vehicle was not repaired. the failure and current mileages were approximately 28,000. updated 09/24/10. *lj updated 09/24/10

Dt: contact owns a 2005 toyota sienna. the vehicle has severe hesitation, almost impossible to drive the vehicle on a wet road or on a snowy road. gas pedal and transmission do not seem to connect. no crashes. no police reports. no fires. the vehicle has been to toyota dealer 5 times; the mechanic came back and said they found nothing wrong with vehicle. *ak (11/08/05) the transmission would down shift very harsh on turns and on hills. the service dealer placed an upgraded computer in the vehicle but the problem worsened. *sc

Dt: the consumer was made aware of the fact that his vehicle has a laser that sends a message to the cruise control to adjust to the vehicle in front of his. when the vehicle in front of the consumer's vehicle moves away the cruise control is supposed to gradually bring the vehicle back up to the original programmed speed. the consumer 's vehicle, however would jerk quickly back up to speed everytime this happened. the movement was hard enough to jerk the passengers backwards. the vehicle was taken to the dealer who indicated that would call toyota to check if there was a recall. they called the consumer back and simply told him that the vehicle was designed to do that. *nm

I was backing out of a parking space in a parking lot. i put the car in reverse, place my foot on the brake, put the car into drive, lifted my foot off of the brake and the car immediately began to accelerate without my foot even touching the accelerator. when i put my foot on the brake, the brake pedal went all the way down to the floor without stopping the vehicle. the van struck another vehicle that was parked in the parking lot, went over the curb of the parking lot, down an embankment into a ravine and headed towards a tree. the passenger that was in the front seat then reached over and put the car into park, which brought the car to a stop. the whole time the car was moving i was trying to stop the car by pumping the brakes, but they did not work. the car was accelerating the entire time until the passenger stopped it by shifting into park. the airbags did not deploy. damage was done to the front passenger bumper and side of the car, the driver's side front tire exploded. after the accident, the brakes did function.

Owner of 2005 toyota sienna le minivan purchased in december 2004. 1. noticed that this problem started to occur over the last two months and the occurrence has increased in frequency. 2. description of problem: when depressing the accelerator pedal to accelerate from a stop, the throttle will occasionally fail to respond to the initial pressure being applied to the pedal. continuing to depress, or applying additional pressure to, the accelerator pedal will eventually cause the throttle on the engine to engage and this results in an unanticipated surge in engine output and acceleration. my concern is that this unanticipated engine surge and acceleration could lead to and/or cause a traffic accident. 3. brought this problem/issue to the attention of the service department at lombard toyota (lombard, illinois). spoke with two different service writers at lombard toyota and they both mentioned that this was a known issue by both toyota and the dealership. lombard toyota mentioned that they are currently unable to do anything to correct this problem/issue at this time.

While pulling into the garage vehicle suddenly and unexpectedly accelerated and lurched forward through the garage wall into the dining room of consumer's home. vehicle was towed to the dealer.*ak