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Celica
| Model | Celica | |
| What things have gone wrong with the car? | Paint Potentially deadly acclerator problem, see review summary | |
| General comments? | Potential Deadly Accelerator Problem With 2001 Toyota Celica I purchased a 2001 Toyota Celica GT-S with the Automatic Transmission on May 15, 2001 and have had nothing but problems with it from the beginning. The major accelerator problem they cannot seem to fix, the other paint problems got fixed, but I had to fight it out with Toyota to even get any action taken for the paint. The Problem: In the beginning I was having intermittent no accelerator when attempt to cross traffic pulling out of shopping centers, etc., but the hotter the weather got the worse it would get. I brought it in to Kay Jennings Springfield Toyota, they drove it, and said they could find nothing wrong with it. Then the weather got cooler and it was fine, but then this summer the problem came back in full force and I find a time when it does it consistently (see does your have this problem), sometimes it would take almost a couple of minutes before I even had any accelerator. I called Toyota and they logged the complaint and had me bring the car in, I took it back in and they replaced the ECU, but this did not fix the problem. I took it back in again and left the car with them for almost a month, not only did the not fix the problem (even receiving assistance from Toyota??™s Technical Advisory), only the Service Manager Bill Banta got it to act up on him once (so they say). Upon picking the vehicle up I was told by the Service Advisor that Toyota did not know what else to do and I would just have to take the car (This is like bringing a car in with no brakes and having them say you still have no brakes but go ahead and drive it). I contacted Toyota again and explained that this is a dangerous vehicle and if they cannot fix the problem they need to give me a new car, and not another Celica, because the Service Advisor told me they have another one with the same problem. After I picked it up the next day the problem was still there, the next day was supposed to be the same type weather, and I had some from work try it and it happened to them. Does Your Celica Have This Problem: I tried a number of different things to see when it would do it consistently and I have found the way to test your vehicle. First, it must be a hot day (above 85) and the more humid it is the better. Second, drive it to work like you normally would, back the car into a parking space that you can drive strai | |