One problem related to automatic transmission torque converter has been reported for the 2005 Toyota Highlander. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2005 Toyota Highlander based on all problems reported for the 2005 Highlander.
Toyota Highlander: transmission terribly slow to respond. Very dangerous. Takes at least a full second to respond -- either transmission or throttle is defective. Toyota will not do anything about this problem. This is very serious. The companies attitude "if we don't admit there is a problem, there is no problem. ".