2023 TOYOTA COROLLA Complaints

I was driving my NEW 2023 corolla cross home on the side of the toll road (busy road). I stopped at a red light and pressed the brake down for the stop engine. When the light turned green and I let my foot off the brake warning lights went off saying “low steering power” the wheel locked and my car would not go. Kept saying “press brake firmly to restart” which I did several times and nothing happened. Finally I put the car in park and pressed the break with the start button a few times and it turned back on so I could drive away. However, I was stuck in the middle lane on road with a high speed limit between 50-60. I put my hazards on and cars were good about going around but it was very scary. Then the same thing happened when I was in the middle yield section trying to cross a very busy highway. I dont think the stop engine initiated and the car still locked up. This is a huge safety issue.

Just today, I was driving my 2023 corolla when I accidentally rear ended someone. We were getting off the highway and they were taking a right turn and second guessed themselves while I was focusing on the oncoming traffic. Usually my car would notify me of there being an obstacle in front of me as it is equipped with a pre-collision system. This time however, it did not brake or notify me resulting in me rear ending the car in front of me and causing damage to my car.

I came to a stop in traffic. It was raining and my windshield wipers were on. The auto-stop feature engaged. When I took my foot off the brake, the vehicle vehicle failed to auto-start and prompted to put it in park and press the start button.

When stopped at a red light with “auto stop/start” on, in the rain with wiper blades on INT level, my car engine shut off and showed a safety message reading “engine stopped, low power steering” and then “press brake firmly to restart” which also did not work when I tried. I was stopped in traffic for a few moments before I was able to fully turn off and restart my car to clear the warning. Another time this happened was stopped in a driveway, also in the rain with my wipers on.

The auto stop start feature engaged at a red light on a rainy day. When I let off the brake instead of the car automatically starting it stalled and gave me an error message flashing between “Engine stopped, press brake firmly to restart” and “engine stopped steering power low”. I pressed the brake and nothing. Pressed the start/stop ignition and nothing. Had to put car in park and press start/stop ignition again to get it moving. This was on a busy roadway in the rain& is not safe at all! Others are reporting this same malfunction but Toyota pretends it isn’t happening. This is unacceptable.

Car came from factory with non-functional fog lights in 2022. Fog lights are installed and steering column has fog light switch, but lights do not come on. Have heard from other owners that their cars also had non working fog lights and upon inspection at dealership, it was found that a relay was not installed in the factory. This issue has caused reduced visibility in foggy and heavily rainy conditions. It seems that multiple cars are missing the relay, and there may be many more that have not been caught yet. Foglights are not often used during normal driving, and one might go to turn on the foglights during poor visibility and find them to be non functional.

On 4/4/23 I stopped at a traffic light the Stop/Start system engaged. When the light changed to green I took my foot off the brake to put on the gas and as I did so the car cut completely off. I got a check engine light on the dash and a loud beep. As other cars started accelerating I did not know what to do. I eventually figured out that I needed to put the car in Park and restart with the key. The car did restart and I immediately drove it to the dealership. Upon arrival they told me the car did not have any recalls, but it should since this is a serious and dangerous safety issue. The car was put through diagnostic, but no error codes were found. I have seen by information I've gotten from this site and other sources that this appears to be an issue with 2023 Toyota Corolla Cross'.

While stopped, my car randomly displayed a warning saying my engine had shut off, my power steering was low and I needed to get to a safe place. I was stopped at a light and even after putting the car in park I was unable to get the engine started again. I ended up rolling to the side of the road, barely able to steer, and after three tries was finally able to start up the car again. It was very unsafe and happened for no reason.

All corolla cross complaints prior to March 1st are being posted under a 2023 Toyota Corolla 4dr fwd. this is my third time making a complaint, two of which have been posted under a corolla 4dr fwd. I’m hoping nhtsa finally starts posting complaints appropriately so cross owners can get some resolution on this VERY IMPORTANT SAFETY ISSUE! my 2023 Toyota Corolla cross xle turned completely off while waiting in a busy Intersection to make a left hand turn. It was raining. Dash read “power steering low. Engine off. Press break firmly to restart”. Which didn’t work. Surprise, like everyone else I had to put my car in park and restart engine. A car turning off when it rains or snows so dangerous. My car had 340 miles on it and has been at the dealership for the 7 of 8 weeks I’ve “owned” it. Toyota acts like I am a magical unicorn and says they’ve never heard of such a thing, Nhtsa mis filing the complaints for the past year is only helping Toyota staying in denial. This car will kill someone before anyone acknowledges an issue.

The contact owns a 2023 Toyota Corolla Cross. The contact stated while at a stop signal, the vehicle turned off and the power steering and the check engine warning light illuminated. The message to depress the brake pedal to restart the vehicle was displayed. The contact shifted the vehicle into park and restarted the vehicle, and the vehicle started to operate normally. The vehicle was taken to the dealer for diagnostic test, and the dealer stated that no failure was found. The manufacturer was not contacted. The failure mileage was 1,500.