general problems of the 2001 Mazda Tribute

I was at a red light making a right turn. The light turned green I proceeded to drive the vehicle speed went from 25 mph to 40 mph and breaks failed. I was able to stop the vehicle and then put it in park. The engine was still racing and I shut the car off waited about 5 min turned the car on engine was still racing and then all went back to normal including the breaks.

The contact owns a 2001 Mazda Tribute. The contact stated that while driving approximately 25 mph and braking for a traffic stop, the vehicle accelerated with a rapid increase in engine rpms. After repeated attempts, the vehicle came to a stop. The contact would experience the failure sporadically and without warning. The vehicle was recently repaired under NHTSA campaign id number 12v357000 (engine and engine cooling, speed control). The malfunction happened after the recall remedy repair was performed. The manufacturer was not made aware of the defect. The approximate failure mileage was 199,900.

Just started noticing that when I let my foot off the gas, the car does not "naturally" DE-celerate/slow down, it keeps going! have to press the brake to slow down from anywhere from 30-45 mph. I see there was a recall August 2000, this was before car wsa purchased in November 2000 by my boyfriend, who later gave me the car in 2009, how would we have known such a defect existed prior to purchase? what is the dealer/manufacturers obligation to fix it before it was sold to an individual? haven't taken the car to dealer yet, but we plan to. This is a highly unsafe condition. I do not feel I should have to bear the expense to have it repaired.

The vehicle present several problems when driving,gear shift more than three time and the broken eg valve more than four time, shaking engine, stop and discontinue working,,,,,,,.

My Tribute has started to accelerate by itself. It scares me anymore to drive it. When I start it sometimes the pedal goes straight down by itself and reverse up the motor and just the other day I was slowly backing out of a parking space and when I put my foot on the brake the accelerator pedal went to the floor and jerk me back fast I was lucky I had my foot on the brake. I just pushed the brake to the floor and it stopped . This is happening alot lately and getting worst. My car should not accelerate by itself. Now after reading that there are alot of Tribute owners having the same problem I am really scared to drive mine.

The contact owns a 2001 Mazda Tribute. While idling at a red light, the vehicle accelerated and increased to 4 rpm's on its own. The vehicle would not return to idle. The vehicle had to be turned off and was towed to the dealer. The dealer currently has the vehicle and it has not been diagnosed. Nhtsa campaign id number 00v210002 (vehicle speed control) was referenced. The current mileage was 112,781 and failure mileage was 112,779.

In the past 30 days I have had 5 incidents where upon exiting from the highway the rpms on my 2001 Mazda Tribute failed to come down to idle speed when I was trying to stop. This caused the vehicle to pull and I had to apply the breaks hard. I tried putting the vehicle into neutral and when I did the vehicle's rpms increased to over 4000. I was able to pull over and shut the vehicle off. It takes about 20 minutes of the vehicle being off before I am able to restart and resume normal operation. I have taken the vehicle into the dealership but they were unable to find anything wrong when they ran their diagnostics an they were unable to recreate the problem. I contacted Mazda after seeing a description of a similar problem in NHTSA campaign 00v210002, but was told that there was no recall and they refused to acknowledge that there were any investigations or recalls for the 2001 Tributes.

Consumer depressed accelerator pedal and vehicle hesitated, and then suddenly lurched forward, almost causing a collision. Related investigation ea 02-027.

The consumer put the gear shift in the drive gear. When the driver tapped the accelerator pedal the vehicle accelerated in full throttle.

When consumer depressed brake pedal there was no steering power, and vehicle stalled. Dealership replaced air flow sensor. Please provide more details. . . .

Consumer states the cause for the second engine stalling was a mass air flow sensor failure and it was replaced. The third engine failure was caused by throttle body and was replaced. The third replacement was done on 09/23/02 and the mileage was 19247.

While driving at expressway speed and without warning vehicle shut off. Consumer stated the throttle body was cleaned but not replaced.

During braking when speed became slower than 10 m/h engine rpm go to 0 which is leading to turning enging off. Happened 2 times with me. Not sure if it is ignition system or transmission to restart a car you need to switch gear to parking and turn key all the way back. I do beleive this could cause a crash on intersection.