Assist problems of the 2020 Toyota RAV4

The car simply a lemon big time was bought on 08/2020 thru the santa monica city Toyota dealers. . . They are awful too. Let my dad, 80, buy all extra insurances when its brand new car and has 3 years bumper to bumper warranty. He and me his daughter that is dedicated driver sometimes keep complain that its get bazuka after 35--39 and move up miles per hours, power steering wheel out of control basically. Can be turn 65 to 90 degree angle without even sorry to say spitting on it. . . , the ugly safety feature that will help you to change the lane on freeway, we wouldn't even will be mentioning that. I think its million dollars case here as a lemon law against Toyota corporation.

I bumped the car in front of me when starting from a red light at an intersection. Impact speed was less than 3 mph. The damage from this impact resulted in repair cost of almost $4,200. This is outrageous and an example of poor design on the part of Toyota. It is my understanding that the standards require vehicles to absorb up to 5 mph frontal impact with no damage. Had I known this vehicle was so poorly protected I would have chosen to purchase something else.

When the feature is engaged, the car changes lanes. Had it inspected and adjusted by the dealer. Dealer said "if I don't like the feature, turn it off" so I do not use this "safety" feature as it would cause me to have an accident. I've only turned it on when I can do so safely without someone near me to show. Feature is only engaged over 35 mph so when I am on the highway.

New vehicle brought in for it's 5k maintenance, to the service department of the dealership it was purchased from. I pointed out several issues with the gas tank range, bsm, camera shutting off, and that I have to keep the stearing wheel turned to the right in order to go straight. 5k maintenance is performed, they noticed the car needed to be realigned. Driving home, no difference from when first brought in. Bring it in to the dealership next day, the day after, I'am notified that the car is ready for pick up, I ask were if they were able to find what caused the aglinment to go out a second time. There response is that there was no indication of what caused it. Inform them that 1. I'am concerned for my safety and 2. The long term damage this is causing. They inform me that they will look into the process, and have management involved. Next day, manager informs me that the aglinment machine was out of calibration, he had to stop a technician from working on the car, had the machine calibrated, and that he personally performed the alginment. I pick up the car and the steering wheel has to be turned to the left to go straight on the highway at 35-45mph, slowing down/stopping & acclerating. Bring it in next day, manger has 3 alginments performed to see if there are any variations, tells me everything is in spec. It is so perfect they didnt even have to take a wrench to it. Reassures me numerous times that it is safe and in spec, hands me a paper "proving" so. Drive home, steering wheel is still to the left. I look at the paper and it clearly lists 3 values that are marked as not within spec, and that it may cause wear, handling and safety issues. Car is towed to a different dealership. During there test drive the tech noticed the wheel was jerking to the left without warning. Was informed that the stearing wheel needed a software update & the algiment is out of spec.

I have had a number of instances where my vehicle's lane keep assist will randomly jerk me out of my lane. In sept 2020 I experienced a significant event of this happening when I was driving in the right lane of an interstate and the vehicle jerked right suddenly, pulling the vehicle into the right shoulder and almost drove me off the interstate. Another significant instance happened on 1/23/2021. I was driving northbound on I-44 and I was in the middle of 3 lanes. My vehicle suddenly jerked the vehicle to the left into the left lane of traffic. Luckily, the vehicle next to me swerved onto the shoulder thinking I was going to hit them. There have been other regular incidents of this happening, but not as severe as these two.