Cruise Control Problems of Lexus ES330

I own a 2006 330 Lexus. Recently on two separate trips, I have had an incident relating to the cruise control. I had the car set on the speed limit of 75mph (an interstate) and put my foot on the brake. When I went to the "resume speed" button, suddenly the car charged forward beyond where it was originally set and of its own volition, the gas pedal went to the floor. When I braked it slowed back down. This happened more than once.

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When approaching 4-way stop, brakes failed and car accelerated. Changed lanes to miss 3 cars in front. Car continued to accelerate; brakes did not work. Went on sidewalk to miss another car. Went over cross street & onto median, hit signs and small trees, car continued accelerating, went over other side of cross street, up on grass, hitting signs and small trees, hit brick wall holding shell station sign. Car stopped. Air bags deployed in median. Car was totaled, even sun roof broken, all tires flat. Driver & passengers experienced cuts and severe bruises. Witness said brake lights were on but car continued to gain speed. Accident not caused by floor mat. My car did not have them. There's a problem with the electronic throttle control associated with the cruise control system & computer that controls the engine speed in the Lexus ES and is models. Hundreds of people have experienced accidents with these cars. Disappointed that NHTSA sides with Toyota and accepts its coverup that it's a floor mat problem! someone at NHTSA needs to investigate this serious problem before hundreds of others are killed or injured. Toyota has known about this problem for at least three years. My car is not included in the floor mat recall yet it went into the same uncontrolled acceleration as hundreds of other Lexus cars have in the past few years. What do we have to do to get the NHTSA to do its job?.

Please note - this is or may be related to other odi I just reported at 10261933. I have a Lexus 2004 Es330 and in addition to weird braking problems, I have also hit the brake and basically felt the car continue like I never hit the brake and I am accelerating or have cruise control on. When this has occurred, I did not feel the abs braking system engage or any type of slowing down occur. I end up hitting and releasing the brake quickly to try and get the car to brake and come to a stop. On one occasion I also quickly hit the gas to see if perhaps that would clear the problem, and it did not. I pulled over, checked that no debris or floor rug had some how made the gas pedal stink, and that is not the problem. Other than this problem, and the problems reported under odi 10261933, I have not had any other problems w/ accelerating or stopping. I have brought the issue to the attention of Lexus and they have denied any recalls or other reported problems. I suspect they assume I am a woman - who cannot drive. Again, I have owned fast high performance porshe and mercedes previously and never had this problem before. I hope someone will figure this out before I am injured or perhaps someone else is. Thanks. Ps no date of incident, so I will put 1/1/09. This refusal of the car to engage the brake etc has occurred about 5 times.

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On Dec. 9, 2006, our '05 Lexus Es330 accelerated spontaneously in reverse down our (fortunately long) driveway. Braking did not stop the car. In fact, the tires squealed loudly as I braked. I put the car into neutral in order to stop it. We immediately took the car to a Lexus repair shop. They, of course, could find nothing wrong. They mentioned having received some reports of floor-mat problems causing acceleration, but couldn't tell me more. The floor-mat on this Lexus was fixed, so that wasn't the problem. This incident only happened one time. I thought the problem was related to the cruise control, because my brother-in-law had a similar problem (going forward though) that was diagnosed as the cruise control causing acceleration. Even though Lexus said my cruise control checked o. K. , I never used it again. We decided to sell the car, & did so within 6 months.

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2005 Lexus Es330 with sudden acceleration. Consumer stated on two incidents her vehicle rapidly accelerated. In one incident there was an accident. The consumer stated if felt as though the cruise control had activated and the vehicle suddenly lurched forward and took off from a parking lot, down a slope, into traffic and into an oncoming car. The dealership inspected the vehicle and the consumer was told nothing was wrong and that the floor mats had possibly been the cause of the acceleration.

Vehicle surged when cruise control was engaged at 60 mph. It surged up to 80 mph. It felt like it was going down hill. Dealer could not duplicate the problem. Also, transmission hesitated at 0-20 mph, it also jerked. . . . . . . . Lexus has admitted the problem, but maintained that vehicle drove as designed. Hesitation problem experienced by many Lexus Es330 car vehicle hesitation, then will lurch forward when accelerating a tlow speeds. Lexus has admitted the problem, but insisted vehicle drove as designed.

04 Lexus Es330 transmission hesitation is serious danger to driver. Engine hesitates when starting from a dead start. Car has to be floored to move and even then it hesitates even more. Also car has serious blind spots on left and right outer side mirrors (they are too small for the car). Also, cruise control light stays lit even when the brake is hit or you dis-engage it. The only time the cruise control light turns off is when you physically turn it off with the switch or shut the engine off completely. This gives the driver the impression that it is on all the time even when it is off or worse they think they have shut it off but it's really still on and you have a very good chance of rear ending someone. This is extremely bad engineering and extremely dangerous. How you guys let a car like this on the road is beyond me. Did you test it? if so, how did you let it pass thru to the USA? this car with it's hesitation, blind spots, and dangerous cruise control it's likely to get someone injured or killed in a hurry. Car doesn't get anything near the epa ratings under any condition. I've contacted Lexus customer care and they say this all normal. No help or suggestions. Please get Lexus to put out tsbs on these problems before someone gets injured or killed. I'm very concerned. I've been a driver for 34 years. I've never driven a car so dangerous in my life.