general problems of the 2012 Toyota Camry Hybrid

Tl-the contact owns a 2012 Toyota Camry Hybrid. The contact stated that while driving 20 mph, the brake system malfunctioned. The contact attempted to make a sudden emergency stop by depressing the brakes, but the vehicle would not stop. The contact crashed into the rear-end of another vehicle. The air bags did not deploy. A police report was not filed. The contact sprained her right ankle from the pressure of depressing the brake pedal continually. The vehicle was towed to north hollywood Toyota of north hollywood, California to have the damages assessed. It has yet to be determined whether or not the vehicle was destroyed. The manufacturer was not made aware of the crash and provided the contact with claim number: 180-427-0700. The failure mileage was approximately 65,000. Ad.

When driving on local roads, the abs, slip and warning lights would come on suddenly. I would experience a severe decrease in brake function (I would need to slam on the brakes to get them to apply properly). This happened four times before the service center was able to diagnose a failed abs actuator. This is apparently a known issue for the Camry Hybrids, as Toyota issued an extended warranty for 2006-2011 Camry Hybrids for this very problem. (unfortunately, I have a 2012 hybrid and the service center would like to charge me over $3k (!) to fix this issue. ).

I was in my gym's parking lot and had just turned left into a parking space. I placed my foot on the brake to slow the car to a stop as it moved forward into the parking space. However, the brake pedal did not respond. Instead, the car continued driving forward on its own, and then I heard a sound of acceleration, as if the car was revving itself up to a higher speed. Thinking that the brake had not engaged, I took my foot off the pedal and placed it back on the brake pedal, stepping harder, but there was no response. At this point, with my foot still on the brake pedal, the car jumped up onto the curb while still accelerating on its own, ran over the sidewalk. Rolled up and over a two-foot hedge that ran parallel to the sidewalk, then crashed into the brick enforced concrete column at the corner of the gym building. The brick column stopped the forward momentum of the car, but left a large dent in the right side of the car¿s bumper that was embedded with chunks of concrete. It also dented the hood of the car, pushing it out of alignment. The airbags in the car did not deploy. I had the car towed to the local Toyota dealer and have reported my accident to Toyota headquarters. I authorized their review of my car's event data recorder and am awaiting their investigation report. This frightening accident left me very shaken. It felt as if I had no control over the car at all. It seemed as if something had taken control of the acceleration of the car and my attempts to stop the car's forward momentum by stepping on the brake had zero impact. Thank god no one was on the sidewalk or I would have killed them. These cars need to be recalled to find out what is causing this potentially deadly malfunction. They are lethal weapons on our city streets!.

Identical problems as recent recall for prius and Lexus models, but hadn't heard my model being affected, so I wanted it documented. The brakes work on this model, but I always had the feeling that I had to push the brake pedal much harder than any other car I had drive to get the same effect. And so I often find myself having to push very hard on the brakes at the last minute to avoid a collision (I haven't had one yet) because what I think is normal pressure on the brakes isn't cutting it. I thought this might all be in my head until I saw the recent recall, and the description of owners' complaints was exactly how I would describe it.