2000 Toyota Camry

@45,679 miles, the (plastic) driver door handle popped of the car when lifted without thumb just enough to begin to open the door. This was during the beginning of a big snowstorm. Luckily I was not idling the engine while cleaning the windshields or I could have been locked out of the car with the engine running. Now I must drive with 2 keys. The original owner of the vehicle, my mother was XXX when she bought it on 10/31/1999 for $23, 470 with 8 miles on the odometer; salespeople never mentioned the door handles were plastic. The failure was complete fracture all at once, not progressive; I suspect the plastic strain hardened from repetitive stress, making this a design defect rather than material quality. The driver's door latch is a safety issue; now I must struggle to enter the car, and you never know where you might be when you need quick entry, like in a rain. Paid cash w/ trade in for car. Door handle not yet repaired, but claim filed with Toyota Customer Experience Center (ref. # XXX). Request Toyota replace or repair door handle at their expense, preferably with aluminum handle on driver door lest problem recur. Also the car needs an OE solar panel to keep the battery charged for low mileage use. I replaced previous battery with new 7 yr warranty one on 1/22/25 and despite idling to recharge for 1 hr at a time, the battery now remains recurrently low. The vehicle was not sold for a given yearly mileage use, and my mom, now deceased, bought it for reliable safety during retirement & old age as my father died; the vehicle now belongs to our family trust, of which I am trustee. I request Toyota pay for a solar panel to be installed above rear window deck, on rubber tubed bolts spaced above the speakers, to keep battery recharged. Battery charge is obviously a safety issue, and idling is a pollutive, unforeseen expense. Both these issues should likely be recall issues because of the vehicle purchase price involved, as design negligence.

THE DRIVERS' EXTERIOR DOOR HANDLE BROKE OFF WHILE MY HUSBAND WAS OPENING THE DOOR. I NOTICED THE SAME THING HAPPENED IN NHTSA ID NUMBER: 10720976. UP TO NOW I WASN'T SURE WHAT TO THINK ABOUT IT, BUT AFTER SEEING THAT MY CAR ISN'T THE ONLY ONE IT HAS HAPPENED TO I BELIEVE IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE CAR'S COMPONENTS. AS FAR AS ANY INJURY, HIS HAND WAS CUT WHEN THE HANDLE BROKE OFF AND I CAN'T HELP BUT HURT MY OWN HAND EVERY TIME I TRY TO OPEN THE DRIVERS' DOOR. IT HAS FORCED US TO ENTER THRU THE FRONT PASSENGER DOOR AND SLIDE OVER (WHICH IS NOT PLEASANT NOR COMFORTABLE).

I HAVE OWNED THIS CAR FOR ABOUT 5 YEARS; MY GRANDFATHER GAVE IT TO ME, SO IT'S ONLY HAD TWO OWNERS. LOW MILES (80,000). I AM REPLACING THE DRIVER'S EXTERIOR DOOR HANDLE FOR THE THIRD TIME AND PASSENGER'S EXTERIOR FOR THE SECOND TIME. THE EXTERIOR HANDLES MERELY SNAP OFF. I WISH TOYOTA WOULD OFFER REPLACEMENT HANDLES MADE OF METAL RATHER THAN PLASTIC. THIS MAY ELIMINATE THE PROBLEM. THE STATE I LIVE IN REQUIRES A YEARLY VEHICLE INSPECTION AND DUE TO THE BROKEN HANDLES, MY CAR FAILED YESTERDAY.

UNEXPECTED ACCELERATIONS WITH MY 2000 TOYOTA CAMRY LE. ON DECEMBER 11, 2014, MY GRANDDAUGHTER (WHO WAS DRIVING MY VEHICLE), WAS SITTING AT A RED LIGHT WITH HER FOOT ON THE BRAKE PEDAL. WHILE SITTING AT THE LIGHT, THE CAR STARTED ROLLING FORWARD. SHE PRESSED DOWN FURTHER ON THE BRAKE, AND NOTICED IT SLOWED BUT DID NOT COME TO A COMPLETE STOP. SHE APPLIED ADDITIONAL PRESSURE ON THE BRAKE AND THE CAR CAME TO A STOP. ALL OF A SUDDEN, AND WITHOUT WARNING, THE CAR JERKED FORWARD AS IF SOMEONE HAD HIT THE CAR FROM THE BACK CAUSING MY VEHICLE TO STRIKE THE CAR IN FRONT OF HER. SHE LOOKED INTO HER REAR-VIEW MIRROR AND REALIZED THERE WAS NO ONE BEHIND HER. AFTER GETTING OVER THE INITIAL SHOCK OF THE EVENT, MY GRANDDAUGHTER WAS ABLE TO EXIT THE CAR TO SEE WHAT HAD HAPPENED. SHE EXPLAINED TO THE OTHER DRIVER THE UNEXPECTED ACCELERATION WHILE HER FOOT WAS ON THE BRAKE PEDAL, TO WHICH THE OTHER DRIVER EXPRESSED HAVING EXPERIENCED THE SAME PROBLEM (ACCELERATED WITHOUT NOTICE) WITH THE SAME MAKE, MODEL AND YEAR TOYOTA CAMRY. I HAVE BEEN THE SINGLE OWNER OF THIS 2000 TOYOTA CAMRY LE SINCE 2000 AND MY CAMRY HAS BEEN TO THE TOYOTA SERVICE DEPARTMENT FOR SERVICE ON THREE DIFFERENT OCCASIONS BECAUSE OF AN ISSUE WITH THE THROTTLE. EACH TIME THE THROTTLE WAS CLEANED INSTEAD OF REPLACED. HAS BEEN REPORTED TO MANUFACTURER WITH NO RESOLUTION. ON DECEMBER 29, 2014 I HAD MY TOYOTA CAMRY TOWED TO MARIETTA TOYOTA AND THE ISSUE HAS BEEN REPORTED TO MARIETTA TOYOTA IN MARIETTA, GEORGIA AND TO TOYOTA NORTH AMERICA CORPORATE IN TORRANCE, CALIFORNIA. *JS

DRIVING 70MPH ON THE HIGHWAY, I ACCELERATED SLIGHTLY TO PASS ANOTHER VEHICLE. THE ACCELERATOR GOT STUCK AND THE SPEED KEPT INCREASING. I TRIED APPLYING THE BRAKES, BUT THE CAR STARTED TO LOSE CONTROL. I SWERVED AROUND CARS AND TRIED TO MANEUVER TO AN EXIT RAMP. THE CAR WAS NOW GOING 95 MPH. I WAS UNABLE TO CONTROL THE EXIT AND THE CAR HIT THE GUARD RAILS AND FLIPPED OVER. *TT

2000 TOYOTA CANRY XLE, PURCHASED FROM NEW ROCHELLE TOYOTA, NEW ROCHELLE , NY AS CERTIFIED PRE-OWNED WITH 40K MILES ON 4 SEPARATE OCCASIONS OVER THE COURSE OF 5 YEARS BEGINNING IN 2005 -- I HAVE EXPERIENCED ACCELLERATOR REVVING OR STICKING, AND SOMETIMES BOTH TOGETHER. SOMETIMES JUST KICKING IT STOPPED IT, ANOTHER TIME I HAD TO THROW THE CAR INTO NEUTRAL AND PULL UP THE PEDAL WITH MY FOOT UNDER IT, ANOTHER TIME I THREW IT INTO NEUTRAL AND IT EASED UP. EACH TIME I PULLED OVER, SHUT OFF THE CAR AND RESTRATED AND IT DIDNLT HAPPEN AGAIN FOR QUITE SOME TIME. MENTIONED IT TO TOYOTA AND THEY MORE OR LESS BLAMED ME. TOLD MY INDEPENDENT MECHANIC WHO AT LEAST CHECKED THE BRAKES AND SNESORS, BUT HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO TELL ME BECAUSE THERE WAS NO SERVICE WARNING. NO REPAIR WAS EVER DONE.

MY CAR IS PARKED IN AN ASSIGNED GARAGE SPACE IN AN APT. BLDG. IN MAKING MY USUAL EXIT MY GAS PEDAL STUCK AND MY CAR STRUCK PILLARS, WALLS AND A NEIGHBOR'S CAR. THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT THE CAR WENT OUT OF CONTROL. I THOUGHT I HIT THE GAS PEDAL INSTEAD OF THE BRAKE--DID NOT REALIZE THAT THE GAS PEDAL WAS STUCK UNTIL I SAW TV AND NEWSPAPER ACCTS. OF THE TOYOTA CAMRY RECALL. THE YEARS LISTED IN THE RECALL WERE NOT COMPLETE. MY CAMRY IS 2000, NOT THE YEARS OF 2007-2010 LISTED IN THE RECALL $3000 REPAIRS--4 DAYS--NEEDED FOR MY CAR. NEIGHBOR'S REPAIRS PAID FOR BY MY INSURANCE. *TR