Car Accelerates On Its Own Problems of Lexus RX300

When parking the vehicle, the vehicle suddenly accelerated while the driver was not pressing the accelerator. Despite the driver's efforts to stop the vehicle, the vehicle jumped over a curb and headed toward a head-on collision with traffic. In an attempt to avoid a possibly fatal collision, the driver swerved hard to the left intending to hit a pole to stop the vehicle. The vehicle missed the pole and hit a starbucks with the vehicle ending up completely inside the starbucks. Six people who were inside the starbucks were injured. The driver never pressed the accelerator during the entire incident.

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My 2000 Lexus Rx300 had an unexplained sudden unintended acceleration where the vehicle almost killed me and my son. I was driving residental backroads by my house, accelerated slightly to get up a hill and that's when it took off. The brake pedal was unresponsive, the emergency break was unresponsive, I pulled the floor mat out for good measure, nothing worked, it kept accerating at a high rate until I finally slammed it through gears to "park" to get it to a stop. I had it towed to the Lexus dealership, where the tow truck driver even told me when it started the car to get it up on the truck, after being turned off for over 12 hours, it was still red lining the engine, and even lurched forward but because the car was in park, it didn't crash into the back of the tow truck. Lexus investigated the car and did absolutely nothing. They wouldn't tell me why it happened. I demand an explanation and a replacement vehicle - one that doesn't have a history of having sua problems. I fear for my life everytime I have to drive this vehicle.

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Tl- the contact owns a 2002 Lexus Rx300. The contact stated that while parking vehicle, there was an abnormal increase in engine rpms as the vehicle accelerated independently. The vehicle jumped the curb and crashed into a fence before coming to a complete stop. The air bags did not deploy and the contact suffered injuries to the right shoulder. The vehicle was not destroyed. The contact called the manufacturer and the manufacturer sent a technician to examine the vehicle failure. The technician stated that because there were two flat tires on the vehicle due to the sudden acceleration, the vehicle could not be properly examined. The failure mileage was 135,000. Kmj updated 01/13/lj updated 02/01/12 . . . . Updated 02/10/12 also, the air bag did not deploy. Updated 05/03/12.

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The contact owns a 2001 Lexus Rx300. The contact stated that while attempting to park, the vehicle suddenly accelerated forward and crashed into a brick wall. The air bags did not deploy. The vehicle sustained front end damage and the contact suffered minor injuries as her breast hit the steering wheel. The insurance company was not notified. Neither the dealer, nor the manufacturer, were made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 73,000.

The contact owns a 2002 Lexus Rx300. Whenever the contact attempted to come to a complete stop, he noticed that the rpm's suddenly increased causing the vehicle to lunge forward even when the brakes were applied. The contact previously noticed that all of the dashboard warning lights illuminated for several days and then shut off without being serviced. The vehicle has not been diagnosed by the dealership. The current and failure mileages were 174000. Updated 3/24/10 the consumer stated he experienced sudden acceleration several times. Updated 06/17/jb.

S10 appropriate handling-letter to the secretary from regarding her letter to Toyota the unintended acceleration of toyotas. The consumer stated as she applied the accelerator gently, the vehicle suddenly accelerated forward, jumping the curb, knocking down and running over a steel post on the sidewalk that was anchored in concrete all the while the consumer was frantically stomping on the brake trying to stop the vehicle. The vehicle finally stopped about six feet from the wall of a department store. The second incident happened on Jan 31, 2011. As the consumer pulled into a parking space, the vehicle suddenly accelerated forward, over the curb and hit the post in front of the curb. The impact knocked the vehicle back about three feet and bashed in the front fender and grill. Updated 05/19/11.

Problems with unintended acceleration in 2000 Lexus 300. Within three month of the consumer taking delivery of the vehicle the consumer experienced three incidents of sudden acceleration. The vehicle was taken to the dealer but they were unable to duplicate the problem. The consumer traded the vehicle in for a 2002 RX 300 and hasn't had any problems.

2000 Lexus RX 300 (this is a Toyota camry engine in a Lexus body) car transmission would not change into high gears 3 & 4 for highway driving, preventing acceleration. Lexus of norwood, MA replaced the entire transmission under warranty. 5,000 miles later the new transmission was doing the same thing, after a week they finally gave it back to and said it was repaired but not what they had to fix and were very sketchy, it was still under warranty. Finally the repair technician told in low tones so not to be heard that it was computer software problem and that;s why they would not tell me. So they replaced an entire transmission at 48000 miles incorrectly when all they had to do was do a software bug fix. I think this is significant because the computer prevented acceleration but could probably also cause unintended acceleration. They do not have control of their software running these engines and don't want to admit because they don't know how to fix it.

While pulling into a parking slot in a garage, my Lexus Rx300 suddenly accelerated and slammed into a concrete wall. Both front seat passenger air bags were deployed.

Throttle became stuck on 2002 Lexus Rx300 while car was being driven causing it to rapidly accelerate. Car had to be turned off before it could be stopped. Car was towed to Lexus dealer. I was told it was just a "freak" accident that a tiny piece of plastic had gotten sucked into throttle. I want to be sure this was an accident and is not a defect.

1998 Lexus RX 300 spun out of control and rolled over. This was in 2002 August and I had called Lexus to check if there is a sudden acceleration or a roll over problem. They said none. I decided not to engage a forensic engineer to investigate because that would delay the insurance pay back. My wife walked away with minimal injuries but nevertheless, we still discuss what could have caused the problem.

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Vehicle experienced sudden acceleration in reverse and hit a pole, gear shift was stuck in reverse and could not shift into drive, the engine torqued up and accelerated forward, causing vehicle to crash into a brick wall, consumer sustained whiplash due to the accident.