Nine problems related to vehicle speed control have been reported for the 2001 Lexus RX300. The most recently reported issues are listed below.
The contact owns a 2001 Lexus Rx300. While driving at approximately 55 mph, the vehicle accelerated without warning. The brakes failed when the brake pedal was depressed. The vehicle was shifted into neutral and merged to the side of the road where the vehicle was turned off. The failure recurred once. The vehicle was towed to the contact¿s resident. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 200,000.
While driving at a speed 40, I noticed lag in gear shift while trying to accelerate to 60 mph. I noticed no pick in speed rather 40 mph became 20 mph, the more I press on the gas petal the only acceleration was notice on the rpm. I had to put on the hazards and pull over to let other cars pass.
2001 Lexus Rx300 sudden unexplained acceleration causing near accident. This was not due to carpet overlapping gas pedal.
2001 Lexus Rx300. Consumer states sudden surge into reverse causing a crash into another vehicle.
The contact owns a 2001 Lexus Rx300. While the contact was backing into his parking spot the vehicle had suddenly surged in reverse causing the contact to crash into a nearby vehicle. No one was injured. A police report was filed for the incident. The vehicle had not been diagnosed by the dealership. The current and failure mileages were 78000.
The gas pedal on my 2001 Lexus RX 300 sometimes sticks. I was not too concerned until the recall of other Toyota products for the same problem. For the most part, the pedal sticks in the idle position so it has not been a problem. The frequency of sticking can be described as infrequent, occurring on 10 to 20 occasions over a two year period.
The contact owns a 2001 Lexus Rx300. While driving 67 mph the vehicle's variable skid control light illuminated and the beeper activated. The contact lost control of the vehicle and began to swerve before automatically shutting off. The vehicle restarted three times without the key in the ignition. The variable skid control beeper deactivated and the light dimmed. The weather was clear with dry road conditions. The current and failure mileages were 103,675.
When driving at low speeds, the vehicle surged forward without warning. This caused the driver to lose control of the vehicle and hit a building head on. Upon impact, both frontal air bags did not deploy.
Foot solely on brake as vehicle coming to a stop in parking spot suddenly with no reason accelerated over-riding the pressure on the brake--jumping the concrete stop-knocking over parking post and sign and coming to a stop just hitting the opposing vehicle's left front wheel well doing damage to it and to my car.