Cruise Control problems of the 2007 Toyota Tacoma

The contact owns a 2007 Toyota Tacoma. While driving 60 mph with the cruise control feature engaged, the brake pedal was depressed and the cruise control disengaged. While attempting to reset the cruise control, the feature failed to operate normally. On several occasions, the cruise control operated independently. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 100,000.

The 2007 Toyota Tacoma accelerates on its own. The cruise control also accelerates on its own. Both of these events occurred twice on February 14, 2010. On March 1, 2010, the truck was taken to the Toyota service center in oxnard, CA.

Two incidents: 7/9/09 heading down to the keys on us 27 about 6pm. Cruise control set at 60 for several miles (had been raining. Speed limit is 65mph). Back end starts to pass me on right. I am now sliding south bound facing east. I cut wheels to right. This works great. In no time at all, I am skidding southbound facing west. I notice I am not slowing down even though my foot was not on gas (cruise control). I cut my wheels to the left and spun back around again sliding southbound facing east. I went off onto the shoulder. I could see mud and grass in passenger window until I hit the guardrail with r side of bumper. This impact apparently disengaged the cruise control (?) and launched me across both south bound lanes of us 27 where I began to come to a stop. I stomped the gas to get out of on coming traffic and again spun to the right coming to rest in the median as 2 cars passed me. At the time, I thought it strange that the cruise control did not disengage when the wheels started spinning on the wet road. None the less, I wrote this off as me being a !@#$% for using the cruise control when the road was too wet. Now, in light of the 7-22-09 accident, I am not so sure it was the cruise control, or that I am such a !@#$%. 7/22/09 about 7:15am as I completed the turn, the truck (I now call my truck christine) accelerated. When I reached the desired speed, I took my foot off gas but continued to speed up. I tried applying the brakes, but that didn't work out so I stomped on the brakes causing me to fishtail to the right so I let up on the brakes to regain control and I was still accelerating! as I continued to accelerate, I hit (pulled the knob toward me) the cruise control (which I had not engaged previously) thinking I might be having a repeat of 2 weeks ago, but that didn't work either and I continued to accelerate. I put gear selector into neutral (I thought) but continued to accelerate. I overturned in a . . .

The contact owns a 2007 Toyota Tacoma. While driving approximately 65 mph, the contact pressed the resume cruise control button. Suddenly, the engine began to rev and the vehicle continued to accelerate to 90 mph. He depressed the brake pedal, but the vehicle continued to accelerate. The accelerator pedal was 'pegged' to the floor; however, nothing was obstructing the pedal. The contact disengaged the cruise control and placed the vehicle into neutral so that he could coast to a stop. He had to place the vehicle back into gear in order to finally stop the vehicle. He inspected the vehicle but did not see anything jammed under the hood nor did he see any leaks. The contact turned off the vehicle. When he restarted the vehicle, it performed normally. He took the vehicle to the dealer, but they found no failures. The dealer stated that the floor mat could have contributed to the failure. The manufacturer offered no assistance. The current mileage was 43,603 and failure mileage was approximately 43,453. See also 10276445.

I was driving from tucson to queen creek on highway 79. I set my cruise control to 65 and enjoyed the ride. I came around a bend in the road, and there was a pickup pulling a trailer a few hundred yards ahead going much slower than 65. I tapped on the brake to disengage the cruise control, and slowed down to ~ 50 before I could pass due to oncoming traffic. Once the road was clear, I accelerated by pushing the resume feature of the cruise control. The truck accelerated, and I was waiting to feel the overdrive gear kick in but it did not. The truck kept accelerating past 90 mph. I looked down to the gas pedal to see if it was blocked or obstructed and it was not but I could feel gas pedal was flat against the floor. I first tapped on the break again but the truck kept speeding up. I turned off the cruise control, but the truck kept speeding up. At close to 100 mph I put the truck in neutral and tried to get the truck off to the side of the road, but it felt as though the brakes were not working. I got the truck stopped by placing both feet on the brake. The engine was running at ~6000 rpm so I looked at things I thought might be obvious such as an obstruction of the gas pedal, but the pedal was clear and un obstructed. I looked under the truck to look for anything leaking or broken and everything looked fine. I turned off the engine, let the truck sit a minute, then started it again. I drove my wife home, and went straight to the Toyota dealer. The dealer told me they couldn't find anything wrong but said the floor mat was obstructing the gas pedal. I can assure you that this is the first thing I checked when I realized the cruise control wasn't disengaging the engine. I checked it again once I got the truck to stop. If I had seen the pedal was obstructed, I wouldn't be filling out the complaint form and chalked it up to checking the floor mat before driving. This was the scariest situation I have ever had behind the wheel of any vehicle.

I have a 2007 Toyota Tacoma. I have had one experience of the accelerator sticking. I was driving on a highway when all of a sudden the car was going like 80 mph, engine screaming - the brakes didn't respond at all. I was not in cruise control (I never use that) and I have just factory installed mats, which were not stuck under the accelerator. Thank god the road was empty, I pulled over, put the car in neutral and shut it off. It didn't do it again so I forgot about it until all this news about so many people describing the exact same thing. I have a flawless driving record for 34 years, I can drive anything. The fact that Toyota says Tacoma not involved I do not believe for a second. They are lying. Now I have to sell the car because it feels like an accident waiting to happen. Please please investigate further the problem with the Tacoma. Thank you.

The speedometer will start to jump from your current rate of speed to anything below that. It started on Sunday late after noon on Sep. 15, 2008. Then the cruise control would accelerate on its own when in use. Both have continued to happen since then, accept now the truck is not getting very good gas mileage, the gauges stopped working all together, and the check engine light is now on. The truck is at the dealership as I type this being looked into. There is a serious problem from what I can see when I drive it. Something electrical for sure, and possibly elsewhere internally. I am concerned to have my family in the truck with me at times from the way the truck drives. Another concern is the warranty will be up in a few thousand miles and I am concerned that whatever the electrical problem may be, they could try to sugar coat it so it last a couple thousand miles, then they are not responsible for it. I just want it fixed and safe for my family.

I was pulling out of the parking garage at work and made a right hand turn. In the midst of the turn my Tacoma started to accelerate just the right amount to spin the tires. I did not have my foot on the gas because of the fact there was traffic ahead and I was costing around the turn. I have also seen times when my Tacoma will accelerate at lest 10 mph over what I have had my cruise control set to, and there have been cases will it will jump at a light when my foot in on the brake.

Erratic cruise control operation. On slight to moderate uphill grade, the cruise control will often accelerate the vehicle to well over the set speed while holding near full throttle. If not monitored closely, the cruise control will continue to accelerate to 15-20mph over set speed. This has been most noted when the set speed is set to 70mph. This issue can be quite scary when the vehicle can reach speeds of 85-90mph while the throttle is still near full throttle. The system does not seem to be able to back off the throttle in an appropriate manner. If at the beginning of this acceleration sequence, the cruise is cancelled, then immediately re-set, the cruise will behave as expected and hold set speed. This has been addressed by the local Toyota dealer and returned to me with no attempt to resolve with the statement that this is normal operation. The issue was then elevated to Toyota customer care with the same response.

Unintended acceleration. The vehicle started speeding up like cruise control was engaged even after the gas pedal released. The only way to disengage was to pump the gas pedal until it released.

After exiting a freeway, I disengaged but did not turn off the cruise control. The vehicle coasted momentarily, but then began to accelerate. I applied the brake, but the vehicle maintained speed. The harder I applied the brakes, the higher the rpms rose. The anti-lock brakes kicked in, and the brakes began smoking, and the vehicle was still moving at 40 mph, the rpms at 6,000. I shifted into neutral, the rpms pegged the tachometer, but the vehicle stopped. The motor revved until I shut the vehicle down. I took it to victory Toyota, but was told that there was nothing wrong with the vehicle. They had it for 4 days. I took it to them again, with the same results. In March, Toyota sent two engineers to look at it for a day, however I have not been told any results.

Toyota 2007 Tacoma. Reg cab 4x4. Vehicle's accelerator stays at current speed when foot is removed from gas pedal at speeds over 50 mph. This is still occurring even now. It is like the vehicle has cruise control! that was that is turned on. This vehicle does not have cruise control. This has occurred on at least 10-15 times over the last 2 years since it was purchased. The throttle ecu control seems to be corrupt. This truck cannot be safely driven anywhere. I still have payments. The truck is un-usable.

The contact owns a 2007 Toyota Tacoma. While driving approximately 45-50 mph, the vehicle lunged forward on its own. The contact applied the brakes and the vehicle slowed down. Previously, while driving uphill, the vehicle accelerated on its own. The contact heard a grinding noise and felt a lunging motion. She deactivated the cruise control and applied the brakes. The vehicle then slowed down. The contact continued driving and once the vehicle reached 65 mph with the cruise control activated, the failure recurred. The contact deactivated the cruise control again and the problem ceased. The vehicle was taken to the dealer, but they were unable to duplicate and diagnose the failure. The powertrain was unknown. The current mileage was 10,243 and failure mileage was 9,000.

I was driving my new 2007 Toyota Tacoma on the highway. I went to accelerate to pass another vehicle when my truck suddenly went completely out of control(as if the cruise control had taken over) the gas pedal *pushed itself* to the floor. The truck was accelerating as fast as it could go, rpm past 7000(completely red lining). I applied the brake which did nothing, truck just kept accelerating to top speeds. I had both feet on the brake with all my strength to keep from crashing into other cars on the highway. Counterbalancing it at about 60-70 mph(while the brakes were smoking). I tried pumping the brake, but the second I took my foot off, it kept accelerating faster trying to go 120 mph. Somehow riding the brake as hard as I could I weaving in and out of traffic I got into the brake down lane. Still not able to stop the vehicle I threw it in park, which stopped it, but the gas pedal was still stuck to the floor. Engine was screaming, rpm at 7000, and the tires are spinning burning rubber. I then turned the truck off, turned it back on and it was still doing the same thing until I realized the gas pedal was actually stuck so I hit it and it released. Once I unstuck the pedal the vehicle seemed ok so I drove home very cautiously. When I as almost home I accelerated with a little to much juice and it did the same thing a second time. The pedal took over and floored itself, accelerating to top speed and top rpm's. This time I immediately turned the vehicle off, unstuck the pedal and again carefully finished my drive home. Reported the incident the next morning. They said nothing is wrong with it, after a month of fighting traded the truck in.

This e-mail concerns the operation of the cruise control system, and concerns all vehicles that operate this way. I recently purchased a new truck with a 4 cylinder automatic with a cruise control. I was not told and did not know that the cruise will activate the passing gear to help maintain the speed of car. The concern that I have about this is, if you are set at 70 mph and have a blowout before you can tell what has happened the cruise control can activate the passing gear and easily cause the vehicle to go out of control, and when hitting the brake to stopped cruise and the car could loose it. I am telling you about this because there have been a number of cars that have wrecked because of loosing control and jumping the medium and so on. This could have been the cause. Also I have found that the cruise kicked in the passing gear on most hills when set than when it was not set. . I have retraced my path on a given stretch and with the cruise control off there was only one hill that it needed more help to maintain the same speed. Someone of authority needs to investigate these problems. I believe this can be a very serious thing.

The contact owns a 2007 Toyota Tacoma. While driving downhill at 60 mph with the cruise control activated, the vehicle went into overdrive and accelerated forward without warning. The vehicle's rpm accelerated from two to more than five within seconds. The dealer stated that this is the vehicle's normal operation. The current and failure mileages were 1,900.

I was driving on interstate 55. I went to pass a semi truck. My speed at this time was 65 mph. I stepped on the accelerator and started to change lanes, the transmission down shifted to a passing gear and the throttle was wide open and it stayed that way. I shut off the ignition and turned it back on, the throttle was still wide open. I tried this a total of three times, now I am going well over 80 mph. I finally left the ignition off and coasted over to the side of the road. My wife asked what had just happened and I told her that the throttle was stuck open. I asked her to look on the floor so she could she nothing was stuck anywhere near the accelerator pedal. I might add the cruise control was not on. I restarted the truck and cautiously went to our dinner engagement. After dinner we used extreme caution on our way back home. I tried several times to replicate the problem. It never did produce itself on our return trip. I called Toyota on Monday morning and after telling them the problem they wanted me to drive the truck back to the dealer I refused. I made them come tow it. It was checked out by the field engineer and was returned to me. They said nothing was found to be out of order. But went into detail that the floor mats were not installed correctly. This truck had 149 miles on it. It was only 4 days old.

I was driving down hill along about 50 km/h. I noticed stop lights and cars spinning and sliding everywhere. I gently took my foot off the throttle to start engine braking and as usual nothing happens immediately. Worse, truck started to accelerate because of rpm hang problem on every manual transmission equipped model (my complaint to dealer was ignored twice). This is not exactly a place where you can push the brakes even with abs because it also is an off slope turn. Instead of slowing down gracefully, the rpm hang actually acts like a cruise control. Combined with the downhill and the rpm hang I am not decelerating at all! suddenly the ecu finally decides to close the throttle (fuel cut off). At this point truck tail of my truck slide to the right and to the left. Only my 20 year experience and good luck let me avoid a fatal accident. The non-linear throttle response is not safe. This is just dangerous how the ecu is programmed! maybe because only <10% of all trucks have manual transmissions Toyota doesn't want to hear about it. Toyota must issue ecu patch for manual transmission models v6 Tacoma, fj cruiser to eliminate: 1. Rpm hang when shifting 2. High rpm (1450) when rolling downhill in neutral or with clutch depressed 3. Make linear throttle response.