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| NHTSA Complaint Number: 005022558 | Incident Date: Mar, 28 2005 |
| Consumer's City: WOODBRIDGE | Consumer's State: VA |
| Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO | Manufacturers Name: Toyota Motor Corporation |
| Model Name: PRIUS | Model Year: 2005 |
| Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No | Component's Description: Electrical system |
| Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No | Persons Injured: 0 |
| Vehicle's VIN#: JTDKB22U950 | Date added to File: May, 23 2021 |
| Date Complaint Received: Jun, 01 2005 | Complaint Type: IVOQ |
| Incident Reported To Police: No | Purchase Date: Nov, 29 2004 |
| Was Original Owner: Yes | Anti-lock Brakes: No |
| Number of Cylinders: 4 | Date of Manufacturer: - |
| Was Vehicle Towed: - | Description of the Complaints: While driving my 2005 toyota prius at about 40 mphin left lane on route 158 in kitty hawk, nc, the accelaratorl quit working, but neither engine quit. was able to let car go into shopping center lot (this was dangerous situation and my 8 year old grandaughter was in the car). electirc engine provided the power with out accelerator assistance. had car towed to elixabeth city toyota dealer. mechanic took two days to find a wasy to get accelerator working. he said thatin conjuntion with toyota corporate engineersover telephone he ran tests and many errors showed up not related to the accelerator. the problems sounded to me like it was in the computer's system. mechanic was eventually told to shut down all computers and re-boot them one by one. i asked him about the cause and he said none was discovered. car has not repeasted problem, but i remain concerned. related this problem to my purcahse dealer (lustine toyota in woodbridge va) assistant service manager. i was told they could not do anything unlesss the problem occurred again - this is not reassuring. and i aapeared to know more about the problem that they did or was willing to admit. i even gave them a copy of an artilce (the japan times - 5/16/2005) that i found on the web referred to a wall street journal article about the problem. it said tha ttoyota corp had sent letters to prius owners telling them to take thier cars in for a software upgrade computer. no letter wa sever sent to me! and dealer did not react to letter. |
