Speed Control Cable Problems of Toyota Tundra

Horn, airbag and cruise control light on do to a bad spiral cable, this is dangerous. This is a ongoing problem with this vehicle.

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Hi, I'm not sure how to address this but I think someone should know. This complaint is somewhat on behalf of a chp officer and family that died and the many others out there like myself, friends and family that have Toyotas. I test cars for the California smog check program. I have tested thousands of vehicles both by driving them on a sensitive dynamometer at various speeds and in place at different motor rpms. When Toyota changed to an electronic throttle control on their vehicles it became very noticeable during the smog tests as the vehicle acceleration and control was more sloppy than the previous direct cable method. I worried about this because with no direct linkage and only sensors to interpret your intended acceleration, it could lead to tragic results without proper fail-safes installed. One necessary fail-safe is when you press on the brakes the engine needs to slow to prevent potentially overriding the brakes or create excessive stopping distances. This would prevent many accidents. It is well known in the automotive repair industry that voltage problems, electrical ground problems, or a malfunctioning main computer or poorly written code, will cause other sensors to behave erratically even if the specific affected sensor is not damaged. Vehicle sensors have problems now and then along with corrupted information being sent to those sensors resulting in unintended results. The sensors / linkage involved in Toyota's electronic throttle control are not immune to these problems as Toyota suggests. A mandatory fail-safe needs to be adopted on Toyotas to override a potentially faulty electronic throttle. Acceleration complaints have risen sharply since the new throttle system was installed. The difficulty with testing a sensor system is that often it can appear to be functioning fine until the moment it misbehaves or it can act normal while good information is received and then with corrupted information it behaves apart from driver's intentions.

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I have had an accelerator problem with my 2008 Toyota Tundra. Last summer my accelerator stuck in full throttle position and almost caused an accident. I was able to put the vehicle in neutral, the engine over-revved, and the pedal finally returned to the normal position. When I contacted the dealer I was told that it must have stuck on the floormat, but this was not possible. The floormat was no where near the pedal. I complained about this happening and the fact the pedal felt like it had pulled itself down more than what I was pushing on it. I also complained of the pedal being hard to push at take off and always jolting forward at take off due to the pressure needed to push the accelerator. The dealer again stated it had to be the floormat and only documented the problem of the pedal being hard to push. When they returned the vehicle they said the pedal was fine and that it was normal to have to push hard on it due to the fact it did not operate with a cable anymore. I contacted Toyota several times via email since the latest recall and finally received a call today from them. The woman who called said to take it to the dealer to be repaired. When I asked her if the incident with the stuck accelerator would be investigated by Toyota , she stated that there only action would be the recall fix and to contact the dealer. I feel Toyota or an independent agency should check the vehicle before Toyota is allowed to touch it, because I don't feel that there shim will fix this problem. I believe it is a problem other than the pedal just being stuck. My vehicle only had approx. 8,000 miles at the time.

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While passing another vehicle on the interstate, truck began accelerating rapidly going from 65 mph to 95 mph in about 3 seconds. Had to apply both feet to brakes to stop truck. It took a half mile to stop and rpms were at 6000, put truck into park -rpms remained, stepped on gas pedal- rpms dropped enough (3500) to get off the road. According to dealership mechanic, the problem was a broken accelerator cable and a factory defect.

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