general problems of the 1999 Toyota 4Runner

After a less than 10 mile drive the Toyota was parked. After a hour or so it burst into flames. Prior to this the door locks were locking themselves. Two fire departments responded. The 4runner was a complete loss. Also burned part of the roadside. I have found other complaints and photos of others bursting into flames, but have found no recalls. Toyota was absolutely no help. Horrible ordeal and thankful no one was killed. Shame on Toyota.

The contact owns a 1999 Toyota 4runner. While driving approximately 45 mph on a four lane highway, a fire erupted in the rear of the vehicle. The contact was able to coast the vehicle over to the side of the road. The fire department extinguished the flames and filed an incident report. There were no injuries. The state highway police had a wrecker tow the vehicle to a yard. The insurance company was to tow the vehicle from the yard to a repair center for diagnostic testing. The manufacturer was notified of the failure and the contact was awaiting for their determination as to what caused the fire. The failure mileage was not available.

Fuel gauge reads inaccurately causing a running out of fuel situation, very dangerous. Gauge is very erratic, but usually shows 1/2 tank when it runs out. Sometimes goes all the way to full, sometimes all the way to empty. I have replaced the fuel sender in the tank with no change. I understand there is a Toyota service bulletin # el010-00 which addresses this issue and a NHTSA action number 950312. Toyota says the parts are not available to make the repairs. Am I now supposed to scrap the vehicle because I never know when I will run out of gas because I have no idea when the tank is actually near empty? I have been experiencing this issue for well over a year. I am not asking for Toyota to provide the parts at no charge, just that be made available to me. I am filing this inquiry on behalf of my grandson, as it is his car. I, however am a retired mechanic who will be doing the repair and have been unable to source the required parts.

The fuel gauge is inaccurate readings will vary all over the place ran out of gas several times now. It says 1/2 tank but there was no gas in the tank. I understand it is a know issue Toyota should fix.

Almost ran out of gas in the middle of the highway.

Sudden loss of power when driving 1999 Toyota 4runner sr5. Fuel gauge reads full and vehicle stalls due to no fuel in tank. I have been able to verify that this is a known issue to Toyota and that they have refused to correct the problem under warranty even though they have acknowledged that a problem with the part as delivered in this vehicle and they issued TSB:el010-00 titled "fuel gauge inaccuracy" to fix the problem only under warranty. This is not a warranty issue, but a safety issue as vehicle can run out of fuel and stall without warning at high rates of speed on congested highways. This issue has not been resolved. I have had to use the odometer to guess how much fuel is remaining the fuel tank at any given time. Factors such as highway conditions, weather, necessary use of 4wd can impact the number of miles achieved in a single tank of gas. Also, fuel tank must be filled to top when refueling to most accurately guess number of miles that can be driven before the vehicle stalls.

1999 4 runner sr5. My complaint is that I have hard starting, intermittent (poor, rough) idle and some time not idle. At high elevation, I have extremely poor gas mileage. I have had several dealer services investigate the problem. Dealers were not able to isolate problem. How I dealt with it over the years. Never used the vehicle other than at sea level and pump throttle when idle was not able to be retained.

Vehicle serviced more than three times due to electrical problems, left tail light not working.