Electronic Stability Control Problems of Toyota Sequoia - part 1

Trac off light and vac trac lights on all the time! grinding noise when brakes applied at random times. Cause for concern! have had everything replaced that could cause this over the past 2 years and still having the same issue!.

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I took my Sequoia to have an airbag recall fixed and a recall that has something to do with the skid control module before I took it to have these recalls done my 2 vsc lights (vsc off light and vsc trac light) on the dash were on and so was the engine light I thought maybe the skid control recall would fix the vsc light but now both of the vsc lights are still on and my brake light is now also coming on when I start my vehicle when this happens my brake power is diminished and my vehicle shakes bad when hitting my brakes to slow down to make a turn or just to slow down in general at a stop light or stop sign this happens on the highway or wherever I'm driving my vehicle at the time but as long as the vsc lights and the brake light aren't all lit up on my dashboard at the same time my brakes aren't as diminished but both of the vsc lights stay on and my vehicle still shakes when I'm slowing down to make a turn. Also when both of the vsc lights are on along with the brake light my vehicle wants to spin the back tires when I'm taking off from a dead stop I have to let off the gas completely for a second then proceed.

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While I was traveling on the highway at 70 mph, the right front brake locked up momentarily and lurched the vehicle, the vsc and traction control light started flashing and a warning buzzer went off. After looking into things, there are known issues with the 2001 and 2002 Toyota Sequoia that cause this exact thing to happen to plenty of other people. I understand that there has already been an evaluation done on this matter and it was ruled that the severity of the issue does not warrant a recall. Why there is no recall being issued on the multiple failure points in the vehicle's system and people are required to spend thousands of dollars in repairs for parts and labor when the manufacturer's design didn't last? I purchased this vehicle for my father to feel more safe in, and that is the last thing that he feels while driving it. I am now required to drive our affected vehicle and have to be constantly paying attention so that the abs system doesn't shoot me into another vehicle.

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Driving straight down 35 mph road and esc light starts flashing, dash beeping, anti lock brakes start surging without pressing pedal. Car shaking. Come to a stop. After 10 seconds, beeping stops, esc stops flashing. Trac off and vsc light come on and stay on. Car drives fine now with lights on. Mechanic said need new brakes and yaw sensor out of calibration probably due to brakes. Replaced all brakes and rotors, re-calibrated yaw sensor for $1000. Same thing happened again 600 miles later. This time when it happened, my 18 year old daughter was driving. She will not drive the vehicle anymore. This is very dangerous. I researched and many 2002 Sequoias have this problem, sometimes at highway speeds. There was a recall for 2003 Sequoias, they need to cover this year.

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Grinding noise, beeping, warning lights flashing, difficulty steering, difficulty braking, clunking when braking, vsc and abs lights on. Very scary. I was driving approximately 50 mph. It also happened when my daughter was driving it. Very intermittent. I was going straight, no turning, no bumps in the road. So random. I have researched the much on youtube and the internet and there are many others who have experienced this scary situation. I am afraid to drive the vehicle and it is a major safety hazard and must be fixed! I heard they recalled the 2003's but not the 2002's but they have the same parts. I will send pictures of others who have similar complaints. If you go to the website I sent you will find many others who have experienced the same thing. I am sending only a sample. Please do something. Serious safety hazard, whatever the problem is! I have not driven it much since it happened. I have been very distracted since my boyfriend passed away. I did call the local Toyota dealer after it first happened and also the national number for Toyota and was told there is no recall. Yet! go to carproblemzoo. Com and input "brake grinding noise of Toyota Sequoia abs and vsc. I tried to upload docs but they were the wrong format.

The vehicle stabilization control turns itself on at random times while driving. Has no correlation to driving conditions, type of roadway, or speed vehicle is moving. There is a beep and then a pull on the steering while a loud grinding noise and sensation occurs. It has gotten so bad, the car is not driveable because you cannot stop. Mechanic has tried to repair but is unable to root the cause. The last time was so bad, my husband thought he was going to crash on the highway exit ramp.

As I drive down a highway, gravel road, driveway, street, anywhere, going slow or the speed limit, all of a sudden my vsc light and traction control light on the dash will start flashing accompanied by an alarm in the dash, causing the car to momentarily feel almost as if its hydroplaning. Then all of a sudden it will go back to normal but the lights will stay on. Sometimes it does it 2-3 times each time the car is turned on. It has also been doing it when I come to a complete stop, then go to take off again it will flash the lights and make a weird grinding noise for about 5-10 secs not letting the car move at all. Then it will all of a sudden start moving again. I have 7 kids that ride with me daily and I find this extremely scary. It's been happening for 6/01/2020 to now/present/daily/.

Was driving straight on a city street with no adverse weather conditions (rain, wet road, etc. ) had accelerated up to about 35mph when suddenly the trac off, vsc, and skid lights illuminated (possibly flashing) and a warning beeping sound went off. There was a loud grinding metal on metal sound and the car was shuttering (vibrating). I immediately begin to depress the breaks, and while the car did begin to slow further than it already was, I did not feel like I could have come to a complete stop as if I had total control of the breaks. I looked ahead to see where I could pull into to get off the road when the lights/warning sound went off and the vehicle resumed normal operation. This was after about 5-10 seconds. I drove for a couple of minutes to a gas station to get gas. The vehicle seemed fine. I was only about 5 more minutes to home so I continued driving. During that 5 minute drive it happened a second time. The exact same behavior, I was already slowing down approaching a red light and was traveling probably 15-20mph when it happened. After about 5 seconds the behavior stopped and the vehicle resumed normal operation. I was only about 30 seconds from home. Continued home and haven't driven the vehicle since. This is a major safety issue to have your break system activate uncontrollable. It was terrifying at 35 mph, I can't image what might happen at 65mph. A few seconds of research shows hundreds of other complaints of the same problem. Some people have reported pulling the fuse for the abs system to disable it, because not having it is safer than your breaking system uncontrollably going off on you. This needs to be recalled by the manufacturer and fixed before there is a fatal accident!.

Twice, once in Nov. 2019 and again n Mar,. 2020, the electronic skid control has engaged without warning and without reason, causing me to nearly lose control of the car. Both occasions occurred on interstate 40 near raleigh , nc. The weather was clear and the road conditions were dry, solid (no sand or gravel) surface. When the system engaged at approximately 65 mph, the vehicle was pulled to the right nearly uncontrollably, the abs system engaged (grinding metal-on-metal sound0, and the engine speed was reduced. In addition, the trac and vsc icons lit up on the dash and the re was a beeping sound. This is a dangerous situation. Had there been a vehicle in the lane to my right, I could not have avoided hitting them. Fortunately, no other vehicles were involved and there was no accident, but this was purely luck. After the first event I took my vehicle to mark jacobson Toyota in durham, nc on Nov 14, 2019 ( I have the service receipt. ) they stated that they "could not reproduce the problem" and said that they did a "zero point calibration. " I have not had the vehicle serviced after the second episode since it happened just yesterday. A survey of the internet reveals multiple other first generation Sequoia owners reporting the same thing, but there is no reported solution to the problem. The only "fix" that works consistently is to remove the abs system fuse; hardly a solution, since it doesn't make sense to me to disable a critical automotive safety system. Nevertheless, given the severity of the problem with the abs system energized, I can understand that disabling the abs system is the lesser of two evils. I would be grateful for you help in finding a safe solution to this dangerous situation.

I almost kill myself, the track off goes when I was driving and my car slide to the right after that all lights on the car went on and the code reader do not work says I can't read the codes no codes on the computer.

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When turning left or right, and at low speeds, vts is turning on and causing the vehicle to lose power. This happens when pulling out in front of traffic and I cannot speed up until the vehicle is straight.

When I start the vehicle the trac off and vsc trac light is illuminated on the dash. After driving a short time the vehicle beeps and goes into a skip and breaks to one side. It corrects itself in a second. Sometimes it beeps and no skid. This started a year ago. Frequency was a few times a year then. Now it happens several times a week. I believe Toyota addressed the issue on 2003's, but not 2002's. Most of time the vehicle is on city streets when this happens and it is more likely to happen after driving a few minutes. It always happens when I am driving straight.

Traction control intermittently kicks in when taking off from a stop. Pavement is level and dry at the time. Loses acceleration for a second or two. It has happened several times since 01/03/2020. Problem seems to be increasing.

Trac off vsc trac off lights illuminate. Seems to be faulty sensor. Brake light periodically comes on with no issue with brakes. Brakes have been replaced and everything checked. On 2 occasions when the brake light is on, the antiskid control activates when the car is going less than 30 mph slowing down for a turn. The car is hard to control and shakes. After the car is turned off for awhile the brake light does not illuminate the next time you drive but will come back on randomly. Trac off and vsc trac lights illuminate are on.

On multiple occasions recently while driving on the highway in a straight line manner, the rear brakes either the left or right have automatically engaged causing my sequioa to jerk to the left or right while at highway speed. My vehicle jerks violently, a buzzer sounds, and the vsc and trac lights illuminate and remain illuminated. If those lights are illuminated it no longer does this; however, if the lights are not illuminated it's a coin flip whether being jerked to the left or right while driving in a straight line on the highway. Toyota dealership doesn't know what problem is. Apparently it could be a dozen different things and they have to start replacing each one at a time to see if the problem goes away. To replace everything is several thousand dollars, probably more than the book value of the vehicle.

I forgot to mention in complaint 11282925 that some of the dozen parts needed to fix the vsc problem have been discontinued by Toyota. So I could pay the dealership thousands to replace some of the possible culprits but the real problem could be the items that Toyota discontinued. Toyota cannot isolate what the exact problem is and has to replace possible culprits to see it it fixes the problem. After all of this and a huge repair bill could still have the highway safety problem if the faulty part(s) are the ones that have been discontinued. Replacing items one at a time and then driving it on the highway to see if it's safe is not a good strategy. Toyota should recall and fix all items at the same time and also produce the parts they have discontinued as a way to possibly try to cover up their negligence.

While driving into my driveway, on the freeway or on city roads, I suddenly hear beeping sound, grinding noise, momentary deceleration and then the vsc off and vsc trac lights in the instrument panel turns on. Sometimes this happens when the vehicle is idling and stationary. I am afraid that I might get into an accident because of the sudden deceleration especially when I am driving on the freeway on the way to the office 5 days a week. The local Toyota dealership told me that there was a recall for this covering 2003 Sequoia models but did not include 2001 Sequoia models. I believe that Toyota should include 2001 models in the recall before people get into accidents because of this problem.

During driving on freeway with clean dry road car has beeping alarm on, vsc traction light on and svc lights lit up while the car shakes line the brake is on by itself for short period (3 seconds). Then both warning light vsc and off and vsc track light is on still until the engine is turned off an hour afterward. The next day I drove the car slowly on a local street after picking up my son after school, the brake started shaking the car and vsc off and vsc track lights are on again. I drive the car with caution everytime after that but the occurance doesn't happen every time nor being recreate. It happened every few thousand miles unexpectedly. This is very dangerous . I would like to find a fix by the manufacturer and have them pay for it. It seems like this is a problem for many same cars .

Just bought a used 2002 Toyota Sequoia and quickly found that I can not pull out into heavy traffic without plenty of gap in said traffic. I had unhooked the battery to do some work on it and now it will hesitate for 1. 5 to 3 seconds when you ease from a stop. I have seen on other sites that it is called the hesitation of death. I notice on the dash the (car with the slipping) light comes on and there are some relay noises under the dash. I don't see the vsc light come on or the abs light come on. I did call my local Toyota dealership to explain my experince and they claim to have never heard of this issue. They told me just to drive it and it should within a few days it should relearn itself. I told them I just drove a 650 mile trip with it and its been a week or two since I unhooed the battery with no change. She simply just wished me luck and that was it. As a update I changed the front brake calipers in witch lowered the brake fluid level in the master cylnder witch turned on all the vsc warning lights and brake light and the hesitation went away as long as the lights were on. Unfortuntaly I turned it off and filled the brake fluid to max level and the hesitation came right back and the vsc warning lights went off. Nothing to indicate or give a direction to a repair. I see the reports about the 2003 sequioa having a recall but not the 2002. If they are the same part numbers I think for all safty factors on both years they shoud be honering the 2002 under a safty recall. Not really sure what to do at this point. Do I sell it,trade it in, the dearship didnt offer any true help or even mention the recall on the 2003 sequioa. They were not to forth coming with info on this problem that seems to be well known on a Toyota forum page.

Toyota rust issue on my 2001 Toyota Sequoia v8 sr5. Used to transport friends and family and children, but no longer safe due to excessive rust and inability to control the vehicle when slowing at higher speeds. Vehicle veers to right and left uncontrollably. Today, I almost sideswiped another vehicle on the highway. I was going around 60 mph and slowed to exit and almost lost control of my vehicle and ended up in a ditch. I took it to a mechanic and was told the vehicle is unsafe to lift due to excessive rust. Recommended to have the frame replaced, but that's well beyond the cost I'm willing to pay. Research tells me that this is a consistent problem for these vehicles and Toyota should do something about it -- if not pay to have new frames done or reimburse people for the many who have these issues. This vehicle has only 154,000 miles and is otherwise in immaculate shape and condition due to proper maintenance. This problem should be resolved quickly by Toyota. I no longer feel safe driving this vehicle for the reasons I've mentioned. Excessive rust and inability to control a vehicle is not something I should have to deal with on a vehicle that has low miles for the make/model, and has been meticulously maintained. Please expedite so I can recover financially from this or have a vehicle that I can feel safe using again with my friends and family.

The first indication that something was wrong was the first week of September 2019. I was driving down a county road when the lights indicator lights for the trac and vsc started flashing and beeping when I drove over some bumps. The lights would not go off even when pressing trac off. I turned off the car and restarted it and the lights were off but only for about 15 minutes into my drive. I took it to the Toyota dealership and the agent said he did not know anything about the system and I would have to bring it back for diagnostics. That night I was getting ready to go over a rather large bridge when all of the sudden the car jerked twice to the right with the second event pulling me off the road. It was extremely frightening and terrified us all. Thank god it did not happen on the bridge or under other circumstances. The vsc and trac lights came on at approximately the same time as they had been off. I contacted Toyota corporate and essentially they said that the vehicle was not under warranty. This is an extremely dangerous situation. Thankfully I am a experienced driver but if it would have been one of my kids, I don't know if the outcome would have been the same. The local Toyota dealership has been of no help. The car is sitting in my drive. I implore you to further investigate this failure of the system before someone gets killed.

When driving at 70mph or higher a light comes on at the dash board vsc trac off the car loses speed and veers right to left almost loosing control of the steering wheel a diagnostic gave me a code c1234 wich is related with the stability control system yaw rate sensor / computer recalibration. This sensor is supposed to last the life of the car.

At 247,000 plus miles the abs system would suddenly engage going around sharper curves on the highway at 65+ mph. Recently the abs system engaged at 32 mph around a sharper curve on a mountain road. I brought it into the dealer in August 2019. As of February 2020 it is still not fixed, despite spending a lot of money. Besides being nerve wracking, it is a potentially hazardous problem, especially in snow and ice, that should qualify for a recall.

I didn't realize what the lights meant being on when I bought it until I was attempting to drive 4hrs away and suddenly the steering started veering off to the other lane and swerving. I could not drive past 40mph on the interstate the rest of the way and almost crashed into other vehicles and off the side of the road. When you switch lanes the vehicle pulls you too far and it is very unsafe to drive especially with kids. I had to break the abs fuse to get back home and even then it still veers off when trying to switch lanes and I can't go past 60 or so. I don't see how there are this many complaints and many accidents and almost accidents to not have everything associated with this malfunction to be considered not dangerous enough for a recall. I'm thankful my kids were not with me during that trip.

The vsc and trac off light comes on when driving. There is a sound when I hit a pot hole or hit the brakes. The vehicle is then a little unstable. This happens on the street and the interstate. When I hit the brake there is a loud sound and then the vsc and trac off light comes on. This is scary. This have been happening for the last two weeks on and off. This has been happening when driving slow at 10 mph or 60mph.

Just driving along, and feels like brakes grab and jerk the wheel and vsc trac lights go on. Problem has been occurring intermittently. Can be at highway speeds, but also happens at any speed. Very dangerous and scary. Vsc-trac and trac-off lights randomly illuminated on dry, level pavement when brakes were applied, causing a loud grinding noise (much louder than normal application of anti-lock brakes).

While driving on the highway at 75mph we made a slight turn with the road and vsc-trac and trac-off lights randomly illuminated without warning on dry, level pavement causing the steering wheel to pull to the right. It was very hard to control, as well as to brake. We were in the middle of heavy traffic. We finally pulled over shut off the SUV and turned it back on. The lights went off so we tried again. About 30min it did the same exact thing. Very frightening. Is there a recall out on this??.

Driving down the road trac, vsc trac lights come on and the vehicle breaks hard and jerks the steering wheel to the right.

Vsc, traction control and check engine lights came on. Vehicle running rough and steering tight while driving on street. Was able to get vehicle back to residence. Feels unsafe to drive. Will be contacting Toyota dealer for repair.

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When turning corner in motion the traction control light indicator comes on and the vehicle loses acceleration for 2 - 3 seconds, when light goes off acceleration will resume. Very dangerous when you are in traffic. Does not happen all the time.

Tl the contact owns a 2002 Toyota Sequoia. While driving 30 mph, the traction and vsc warning indicators illuminated. The vehicle started to slide as if the brakes had been applied. The contact was able to drive home. The dealer and manufacturer were not notified. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The failure mileage was 126,631.

Tamara recall: I was going 60 mph when my traction control lights started blinking. It started making a grinding noise and front end shaking and loss of power steering it has 190,000 miles on it.

Driving 45mph on straight road the vehicle vsc engaged pulling hard to the right and decelerating quickly. I pulled over, called dealership and was told to drive it the 2 miles to dealership. Within 100� of dealership I crossed intersection and car suddenly decelerated, engaged the assistance again and I was almost struck by truck that swerved and almost hit pedestrian. Dealer said it was a yaw steering sensor. Part was unobtainable or possible within 8 weeks, and no after market parts available. Mechanic recommended vehicle not be driven. Toyota declared part obsolete. I researched and found this was already at the NHTSA attention but that they closed the investigation. How is this acceptable?.

Trac/ vsc alarm light came on , the car brakes was activated while on heavy traffic on top of a bridge with a dry road surface.

Rented vehicle from hertz in oklahoma city, ok on 10/14/18. When I returned vehicle on 10/18/18, the rental car associate wrote "safety" on the window. When I asked what the "safety" was for, he said, ". . . This vehicle is under recall and should have never been rented to you. " NHTSA #18v685 - air bag may disabled due to faulty programming. Additionally, recall number 18v122000 recall date 02/20/2018 component electronic stability control may be relevant.

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