Eight problems related to car accelerates on its own have been reported for the 2001 Toyota Camry. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2001 Toyota Camry based on all problems reported for the 2001 Camry.
While backing out of a parking space very slowly, looking both directions, the car suddenly accelerated and flew across a busy street into a store front. Three persons were slightly injured and the car was considered totaled as well as the main front window of the store.
2001 Toyota Camry. Consumer states intended acceleration the consumer stated his wife was driving the vehicle, when it suddenly accelerated and crashed into a utility pole.
My 2001 Toyota Camry started developing a problem more than two years ago, where it would start running rough and then stall--or sometimes stall without any warning. I have taken it into the Toyota dealership numerous times, but they have not been able to fix it. If the car stalls or comes close to stalling then the engine light goes on, and the dealership has only been able to reset the engine light. Recently the dealership replaced the charcoal canister when the engine light came on, but that has not helped the running rough/stalling problem. The car seems to run rough or stall if it has gone above 4000 rpms ,and we can moderate the instances of a problem by avoiding sudden acceleration. My fear is that the car will stall in traffic and cause an accident.
Toyota 2001 Camry - sudden acceleration. While parking the car, the car accelerated on its own. The car embedded itself in a deep snowbank approximately 6 to 8 feet away. No injuries, minor damage to grill. The car was so deeply embedded that it took several hours to dig it out. The front two wheels were elevated - the entire vehicle was on a slant of about 10 to 15 degrees. A 48 year old woman and an 8 year old child were in the car.
The contact owns a 2001 Toyota Camry. The contact stated that while trying to park at 5 mph, the vehicle suddenly accelerated and crashed into a tree. The vehicle sustained major body damage but no injuries were reported. The vehicle was taken to an authorized dealership but the dealer could not duplicate the problem. The failure mileage was approximately 35,000. The current mileage was approximately 60,000.
At approximately 2:30 pm, my son was backing out of our driveway in our 2001 4 cylinder Camry. He placed the car in reverse and the car shot backward at very high speed, completely out of control. The car traveled about 65 feet across our narrow side street, where the car side-swiped a cement worker's truck and substantially slowed down for about 1 second due to the contact. My son was attempting to pull the accelerator up with his foot while the car was side-swiped, thinking that the accelerator had jammed, when the car broke away from the side-swipe and again shot out at uncontrollable speed. The car had been steered slightly to the driver's left, so the car proceeded in a semi-circle another 75 feet, back across the curb over our lawn through and over approximately 1 foot high landscaping stone and came to a rest inches from our house, only after my son pulled up the parking brake and somehow threw the car into park I've gone through Toyota regional in aurora, IL - they sent their engineer who performed a non-road test on the car at the body shop, found nothing wrong. Thereafter, one of my CO-workers did some web search and discovered the concept of "sudden acceleration", the recall on the 2001 6 cylinder Toyotas and the nftsa inquiries on the 2002-04 models. Toyota refuses to do anything other than have their engineer meet me to do a road test after the body work is fixed. I am shocked and stunned at Toyota's lack of concern on such an obvious safety issue. I have more, but have edited this to comply with the 2000 character requirement. Please contact me.
Pulling into a parking space the car suddenly accelerated and did not stop until it crashed into two porches. There is no question that the car was already slowing down because the car was pulling into a parking slot.
While pulling inside of a parking lot, the vehicle suddenly accelerated uncontrollably without warning. The driver was not able to maintain control of the vehicle. The driver placed both feet on the brake pedal, but the vehicle continued to accelerate into a brick wall. Both frontal air bags failed to deploy. The driver sustained head and neck injuries. The vehicle was towed to the dealer. The driver is still under doctor's care.