Accelerator Pedal problems of the 2005 Toyota Highlander

The contact owns a 2005 Toyota Highlander. The contact stated that while attempting to park, the vehicle suddenly accelerated and crashed into a tree. The air bags did not deploy. There were no injuries. The vehicle was destroyed. The contact called the manufacturer who stated that they would inspect the vehicle. After the failure, the contact received a recall notice for recall 06v253000 (vehicle speed control: accelerator pedal). The failure mileage was 44,200. Updated 01/31/11/ updated 04/20/11.

The contact owns a 2005 Toyota Highlander. While entering a parking space, just before applying the brake, the vehicle accelerated into a concrete step. No one was injured during the crash but the vehicle suffered damage to the front end. He called the manufacturer and they collected all the information regarding the incident. However his vehicle was excluded from recall 09v388000 (vehicle speed control:accelerator pedal). The current and failure mileages were 40,892.

Caller said that twice his vehicle would not accelerate when hitting the gas pedal. When pressing the gas pedal to pass a car nothing happened for a few seconds. Dealer said there was nothing they could do about it, and that was the way the vehicle wa sdesigned. Dealer said they could not duplicate the problem. Manufacturer has not been contacted yet.

While driving about 30 mph driver pressed on the accelerator in order to pass a vehicle on the right hand side. The vehicle refused to accelerate when pedal was applied, and finally accelerated after a few seconds.