2007 SCION TC Complaints

DRIVING ON DRY ROAD AT APPROX. 35 MPH BEGAN BRAKING TO MAKE TURN INTO A PARKING LOT. ROAD SURFACE WAS SOMEWHAT ROUGH BUT NOT EXTREMELY. BRAKES FAILED TO RESPOND SO I PUSHED PEDAL TO THE FLOOR AND THEY GRADUALLY SLOWED THE CAR. I WAS NOT DRIVING AT AN EXCESSIVE SPEED NOR BEING CARELESS. AS I TURNED INTO THE PARKING LOT AT AN EXCESSIVE SPEED I ALMOST HIT A VEHICLE THAT WAS WAITING TO PULL OUT ON TO THE HIGHWAY. DUE TO TRAFFIC CONDITIONS AND THE SHOCK OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING I COULD NOT SAFELY CHANGE MY DIRECTION OF TRAVEL AND WAS COMMITTED TO COMPLETING THE TURN INTO THE PARKING LOT. *TR

PURCHASE PRE-CERTIFIED/PRE-OWNED SCION TOYOTA, 2007, WITH 40,000 MILES ON MAY 12, 2010 AND ON MAY 25, 2010 OIL LIGHT BEGAN TO BLINK, LOST POWER AND CONTROL OF CAR ON BUSY RAINY ROAD AND CAR STALLED, PUTTING MY LIFE AT RISK. BURNING SMELL AND BRAKES & STEERING WHEEL LOCKED IN MIDDLE OF ROAD. UPDATED 06/03/10*BF THE CONSUMER STATED THE VEHICLE IS CURRENTLY IN THE SHOP WITH SERIOUS ENGINE DAMAGE. UPDATED IVOQ 06/07/10*JB

THIS EVENT HAPPEN 2 TIMES IN THE 3YEARS I'VE OWNED THE CAR, THE 1ST INCIDENT WAS 2009 WHILE I WAS PARKING MY CAR IN A WENDYS LOT. WHILE SLOWING DOWN TO PARK THE CAR ACCELERATED IN THE PARKING SPOT AND WHILE SLAMMING MY FOOT ON THE BRAKES IT FINALLY STOPPED BUT ON TOP PARKING CONCRETE STOPPER (NOT SURE ABOUT NAME AND ALSO ON TOP OF THE SIDE WALK. THE SECOND INCIDENT JUST HAPPEN TODAY (5/5/10) WHILE LEAVING WORK. AS I WAS BACKING THE CAR UP AND GETTING OUT THE PARKING SPOT I PUT THE CAR IN DRIVE AND IT ACCELERATED FORWARD BEFORE PUTTING MY FOOT ON THE GAS, I THEN AGAIN BANGED MY FOOT ON THE GAS AND MADE SURE I WAS PRESSING THE BRAKE AND THE CAR KEPT ON ACCELERATING INTO A PARKED CAR AND I WAS THEN ABLE TO PUT THE CAR IN PARK. THE FIRST TIME THE INCIDENT HAPPEN I WAS IN DENIAL AND SECOND GUESSING MY OWN DRIVING SO I PAID TO GET THE FRONT BUMPER REPLACED. THIS IS THE SECOND TIME THIS HAS HAPPEN AND I REPORTED THE INCIDENT TO MY INSURANCE. NOT TO MENTION WHEN I FIRST PURCHASED MY SCION I HAD SPOKE TO THEM ABOUT MY BRAKES GRINDING WITH IN THE FIRST 1000 MILES , THEY LOOKED AT IT AND TOLD ME EVERYTHING HAS CHECKED OUT. I HAVE SINCE DEALT WITH THE PROBLEM BY ALLOWING MYSELF TO BE PREPARED AHEAD OF TIME TO STOP. I HAVE ALSO HAD MY BRAKES REPLACED WHICH IN TURN DIDN'T SOLD THE GRINDING. IN THE SNOW MY CAR BARELY EVEN STOPS. *TR

2007 SCION TC STANDARD AUTOMATIC. THE RPM WILL DECREASE BY ABOUT 2 NUMBERS RANDOMLY WHILE DRIVING. SPEED DOES NOT SEEM TO BE A FACTOR. HAPPENS ABOUT EVERY OTHER DAY. THIS IN TURN CAUSES MY CAR TO SLOW DOWN WHEN I DO NOT WANT IT TO. IS AN ISSUE WHEN I AM DRIVING ON THE INTERSTATE IN HEAVY TRAFFIC. *TR

LEICESTER, MASS. -- POLICE SAY IT APPEARS THE FOUR TEENAGERS WHO WERE KILLED IN A CAR CRASH IN LEICESTER WERE WEARING THEIR SEAT BELTS, AS WAS THE LONE SURVIVOR. LEICESTER POLICE CHIEF JIM HURLEY SAYS NEITHER ALCOHOL NOR DRUGS WAS A FACTOR IN THE CRASH. HURLEY ESTIMATES THE 2007 TOYOTA SCION WAS TRAVELING ABOUT 75 MILES-AN-HOUR ON A RESIDENTIAL STREET IN THE CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS TOWN LATE FRIDAY NIGHT. HE SAID THE CAR VEERED OUT OF CONTROL AND HIT THE TREE. KILLED WERE THE DRIVER NATHAN PLAZA, 17, OF LEICESTER -- AND THREE PASSENGERS BRYAN ROSSIK, 17, OF LEICESTER, JULIANNE CARON, 18, OF NORTH BROOKFIELD AND COURTNEY BUTCHER, 18, OF WORCESTER. SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD LAUREN BENNETT REMAINS IN CRITICAL CONDITION.

MONTEREY PARK -- A YOUNG WOMAN WAS KILLED AND A YOUNG MAN WAS BADLY INJURED LATE THURSDAY IN A SINGLE CAR CRASH ON ATLANTIC BOULEVARD, POLICE SAID. JASMINE ALEXI GARCIA, 19, OF LOS ANGELES DIED IN THE CRASH, LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF CORONER ASSISTANT CHIEF ED WINTER SAID. THE CRASH OCCURRED JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT IN THE 700 BLOCK OF ATLANTIC BOULEVARD, MONTEREY PARK POLICE OFFICIALS SAID IN A WRITTEN STATEMENT. GARCIA WAS A PASSENGER IN THE CAR, OFFICIALS SAID, AND THE DRIVER, A 19-YEAR-OLD MAN, WAS HOSPITALIZED IN AN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT. THE INVESTIGATION WAS ONGOING, HOWEVER OFFICIALS SAID IT INITIALLY APPEARED THE 2007 SCION WAS SOUTHBOUND AT HIGH SPEED JUST PRIOR TO THE CRASH. "THE DRIVER LOST CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE, CAUSING THE VEHICLE TO TRAVERSE ALL THE LANES OF TRAFFIC IN AN EASTBOUND DIRECTION," ACCORDING TO THE POLICE STATEMENT. "THE VEHICLE THEN COLLIDED WITH A TREE." MONTEREY PARK FIREFIGHTERS USED THE "JAWS OF LIFE" TO FREE GARCIA AND THE DRIVER FROM THE WRECKAGE, POLICE SAID. THE WOMAN WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE, AUTHORITIES SAID, AND THE DRIVER WAS TAKEN TO LOS ANGELES COUNTY--USC MEDICAL CENTER FOR TREATMENT. THE TRAFFIC INVESTIGATORS HANDLING THE INVESTIGATION COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT FRIDAY.

JUSTINE CHANG 23, DIED ON JANUARY 15,2010 IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. HE WAS DRIVING A 2007 TOYOTA SCION. BASED ON NEWS REPORTS, IT IS NOT CLEAR EXACTLY WHAT CAUSED JUSTIN CHANG TO LOSS CONTROL OF HIS SCION. PLEASE LOOK INTO THIS, COULD THERE BE A MECHANICAL DEFECT IN THIS MODEL CAR THAT HAS NOT YET BEEN RECALLED BY TOYOTA?

TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2007 TOYOTA SCION TC. WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 55 MPH THE CONTACT HEARD A LOUD SOUND SIMILAR TO A GUN SHOT ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE VEHICLE. AFTER EXAMINING THE VEHICLE, THE CONTACT NOTICED THAT THE SUNROOF AND METAL SUPPORT BARS HAD FALLEN INSIDE OF THE VEHICLE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 18,000 AND THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 20,000. UPDATED 5/10/10 *CN UPDATED 05/14/10.*JB

TL*THE CONTACT OWNED A 2007 TOYOTA SCION. THE CONTACTS DAUGHTER WAS KILLED IN AN ACCIDENT WERE THE VEHICLE WAS DESTROYED. THE POLICE STATED THAT THE VEHICLE WAS GOING 90 MPH. THE CONTACT STATED THAT THIS FAILURE HAPPENED TWICE PRIOR. THE VEHICLE KEPT ACCELERATING AND WHEN THE CONTACT HAD TO SWERVE TO MISS OTHER VEHICLES, THE CONTACT LOST CONTROL AND HIT A UTILITY POLE. THE VEHICLE HAD 30000 MILES AT THE TIME OF THE FAILURE AND THE VEHICLE HAD 30000 MILES CURRENTLY. UPDATED 003/30/10 *BF ACCORDING TO THE POLICE REPORT, THE DRIVER WAS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL AND DRUGS. UPDATED 09/07/10 UPDATED 9/29/11*CW

SUDDEN ACCELERATION 2007 SCION. I HAD 2 ACCIDENTS WITHIN 3 MONTHS CAUSED BY A SUDDEN ACCELERATION. *TR