general problems of the 2005 Toyota RAV4

On 10/1/2022 in berwick, PA while pulling into the dollar tree parking lot, smoke appeared in the passenger cabin and the vehicle accelerated on it's own. The brakes were applied and the vehicle continue to accelerate. The vehicle went down through a yard, across a road through another parking lot and crashed into a high curb before stalling out. The airbags deployed. My mother was transported to the hospital and is still in icu with broken ribs, cuts and bruises. She was able to steer the vehicle away from a parked car, a person on a bicycle and missed a rose bush, no one else was injured in the incident. A police report has been completed, the vehicle is still in the custody of the towing company and has not been released to the insurance company.

Rav4 was total stopped on a stop sign. On taking the foot off the brake paddle to move ahead on green signal, even before the foot touched the accelerator paddle the vehicle accelerated at high speed into the vehicle in front. The driver has been driving this Rav4 for few years and has a very clean driving record and was at regular university stop. The damage was so bad that the vehicle was totalled by insurance. The damage looks like a high speed impact. A old 2005 Rav4 with 122000 miles on it cannot move that fast even if tried. The damage speaks for itself. The police officer was informed that the incident was confusing and later thinking back, it looked impossible to be because of human error even if tried. The household has clean record (no tickets, no accidents from us) on 3 vehicles for past 15 years. The incident happened on a regular daily university stop where the vehicles are driven slowly anyways. The damage speaks for itself that the vehicle had uncontrollable situation. Incident happened moving from a dead total stopped vehicle (0 mph). But the damage looks like the vehicle crashed in with a high speed. Both the driver and the other driver were confused, as noted to the attending police officer.

The contact owns a 2005 Toyota Rav4. While the contact was shifting into park, the engine revved and the rpms increased. The vehicle crashed into a metal post and building. A passenger was slightly bruised. A police report was filed. The vehicle was destroyed. The contact filed a complaint with the manufacturer. The failure mileage was 72. 330 updated 01/26/lj updated 03/28/11.

Toyota 2005 Rav4 car accelerated when getting ready to stop.

It is very difficult to control acceleration from a stop while driving my Rav4 in stop and go traffic. This has been true since I purchased the car with about 40,000 miles on it. I removed the floor mat with no change. I have been told by 2 Toyota dealerships (one had the car for evaluation for a day and charged me a diagnosis fee and for a rental car) that this is normal. This is a potentially dangerous condition and clearly a safety hazard. I hold a commercial drivers license and have had many years of experience driving a wide variety of vehicles and have never encountered this problem. It is only a matter of time before the car hits something. Toyota must address this issue. Until this problem is remedied there is the real risk of something or someone being damaged or hurt (or worse). Update: on March 3, 2010 I delivered the car to dick dyer in columbia, SC at Toyota's request. The regional technician inspected the car that day. I have since been contacted by the general manager and informed that Toyota is flying a team of engineers from California to evaluate the car next Monday, March 15, 2010. Updated ivoq 05/28/10.

We were approaching our garage when all of the sudden our 2005 Toyota Rav4 accelerated without me pushing the gas petal. We drove through the front of our garage, causing substantial damage to our garage and the SUV. Both garage doors had to be replaced and the front of our garage had to be reframed and dry-walled inside. My husbands 1977 Jeep-cj7 that has been totally restored was damaged and had to be repainted. The SUV suffered damage requiring a new passenger door, new passenger side trim, new side mirrors, new headlights, and repainting of the front half of the SUV. We contacted the police and they said since the damage was done to our property no report needed to be filed. We did take pictures for the insurance company which we still have, and we can obtain a copy of the report from the insurance company and or the body shops. We also contacted the Toyota dealership and questioned whether there were any recalls or problems with any other Rav4s and they said no. We have noticed on several occasions that there seems to be some times when the throttle seems to accelerate while we are driving down the road, but nothing as severe as the accident. With the recent recalls of Toyotas we are very concerned about another incident occurring and for the safety of lives.