One problem related to speed control linkage has been reported for the 2009 Toyota Corolla. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2009 Toyota Corolla based on all problems reported for the 2009 Corolla.
I bought a Toyota Corolla March 2009 ,on about sept. 1, 2009 I was driving around palos verdes I saw donald trupm's golf course. So I pulled in and drove through the drop off area and ask the guy that was out there for a flyer and he gave me one and them I went to the stop sign to leave. I was pulling out and I saw a small truck coming so I jumped on the accelerator to get ahead of truck and when I let up on the accelerator the car didn't slow down. I then had to push on my brakes as hard as I could while pulling on the strewing whelelreally hard to help me push the brake pedal real hard. The car would not stop running fast it got stuck in passing gear mold and won't stop from really racing the engine. ! was real lucky there was a place to pull of the road,so I pulled into a small parking area and put the car into park,I turned the key off and them I stared the car again and it was still racing the engine really really fast. So I turned the key off again and I didn't know what to do. I didn't want to drive down the hills in palos verdes because that was really scary and I think that if I wasn't use to being around car's with my x-husband a lot,like pulling car's with a rope to start them and then slamming on the brake when it started to keep from running into the car that was towing me. . Some other people could panic and have a really bad accident. So any way I had a friend with me and I opened the hood and ask her to get into the drivers sit to pump on the gas peddle I tried to see were the linkage was to see if I could do something to stop the motor from racing. I could not see where the linkage was and I didn't want take the cover of the motor because I haven't done that on newer car's. So igot back into the drivers seat and got my purse out to call the automobile club but before I did that I thought I would try starting the car one more time and it was o. K. I took the car to Toyota to check it they couldn't get to do the same thing and tried to blame it on the carpet.