2000 Toyota Echo complaints

CONSUMER STARTED THE VEHICLE AND PUT IT IN REVERSE TO BACK OUT. HE APPLIED BRAKES AND THE BRAKE FAILED TO STOP. THE VEHICLE ROLLED BACKWARD INTO WOODED DITCH. ALSO, CONSUMER STATED THERE WAS A VIBRATION AND HISSING NOISE, ONE PERSON WAS INJURED IN THE ACCIDENT. *YH

CONSUMER HAS A STANDARD TRANSMISSION. AFTER PARKING VEHICLE ON A SLIGHT INCLINE VEHICLE ROLLED DOWN A HILL.DEALER CONTACTED.*AK

CONSUMER WAS INVOLVED IN AN ACCIDENT POSSIBLY CAUSED BY THE BRAKES NOT RESPONDING PROMPTLY. SHORTLY THEREAFTER THE ACCIDENT, CONSUMER RECEIVED A RECALL 01V326000 NOTICE RELATING TO THE BRAKE BOOSTER. *TT

WHILE DRIVING AT STATE SPEED LIMIT APPLIED BRAKES AND AIR BAGS DEPLOYED, COVERING DRIVER'S VISION WITHOUT WARNING, AND VEHICLE CAUGHT FIRE CAUSING ACCIDENT AND MINOR BODY INJURIES.*AK

PRIOR TO RECALL 01V326, BRAKES FAILED TO STOP AND VEHICLE WAS INVOLVED IN 3 DIFFERENT ACCIDENTS, THE CONSUMER WAS INJURED IN ONE OF THE ACCIDENTS. *YD

AT 40 MPH CONSUMER REAR ENDED ANOTHER VEHICLE HEAD-ON. THERE WAS SOME FRONT END DAMAGE, AND AIR BAGS DID NOT DEPLOY. CONTACTED DEALER, AND DEALER/ MANUFACTURER WERE NOT WILLING TO DO ANYTHING.*AK

REPAIRS FOR RECALL 01 V 326 000 CONCERNING INTAKE MANIFOLD DIDN'T CORRECT THE PROBLEM. PLEASE PROVIDE ANY FURTHER INFORMATION.*AK

VEHICLE HAS HAD BRAKE PROBLEMS SINCE PURCHASE IN APRIL 2000. FRONT PADS WERE REPLACED 4 TIMES; IN JUNE/ AUGUST/ DECEMBER 2000, AND JUNE 2001. FRONT ROTORS WERE REPLACED ONCE, AND BRAKES FAILED AND CAUSED CONSUMER TO REAREND ANOTHER VEHICLE. BRAKE PEDAL FELT NORMAL, VEHICLE JUST KEPT GOING AS BRAKE WAS APPLIED. DAMAGE WAS $ 2000.00.*AK

ON 1 OCT 2001 JESSICA TOOK CAR TO LIBERTY TOYOTA FOR GRINDING NOISE. ADVISED BRAKES WERE SO BAD SHE COULD NOT DRIVE AWAY AND BRAKES, FRONT AND REAR REPLACED. LESS THAN ONE MONTH LATER WE RECEIVE SSC -10L - 2000 MY ECHO BRAKE BOOSTER SAFETY RECALL NOTICE THAT BRAKE BOOSTER AND FRONT BRAKE PADS WILL BE REPLACED AT NO COST TO CLIENT. WHEN WE ASKED ABOUT REIMBURSEMENT FOR BRAKES INSTALLED ON 2 OCT 01 ADVISED TO CALL TOYOTA USA.. CALL TO TOYOTA USA ON 12 NOV OPENED CASE #200111120298 WHO SAID THAT TOYOTA WOULD NOT REIMBURSE PREVIOUS BILL FOR BRAKES. AS A 3-CAR TOYOTA FAMILY I FIND THIS TO BE UNFAIR SINCE WE HAD NO CHOICE TO REPLACE BRAKES DUE TO CURRENT SITUATION AND DID QUESTION WHY THIS WAS OCCURING. BRAKES PREVIOUSLY REPLACED WITH NEW AND NOW AGAIN AT 28,878 MILES. GARAGE LOOKED AT OTHER TOYOTA ECHOS IN THE LOCAL AREA. THIS IS THE ONLY ONE CURRENTLY BEING MAINTAINED IN LOCAL AREA. FEEL TOYOTA USA OWES JESSICA FULL REIMBURSEMENT FOR BRAKES REPLACED ON TWO SEPERATE OCCASSIONS AS DEFECT IS NOW SUBSTANTIATED WITH RECALL AND IDENTIFIED AS RELATED TO MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY.

BRAKES ARE STREAKING WHEN APPLIED. ALSO, CD PLAYER IS DEFECTIVE. *AK

WHILE CONSUMER'S VEHICLE WAS TRAVELING AT 30-35 MPH IT REAR ENDED ANOTHER VEHICLE, FRONT WAS CRUSHED IN, BUT NONE OF AIR BAGS DEPLOYED.*AK

MI 16-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER GABRIELA WAS DRIWING AND THE BRAKES DO NOT RESPOND CRASHING AT 30MPH.*AK

BRAKE PEDAL IS TO CLOSE TO THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL. IF DRIVER LET UP HIS FOOT PRESSURE TO REPOSITION IT FURTHER LEFT ON THE BRAKES PEDAL, THE CAR NATURALLY SURGES FROM GAS IN THE SYSTEM. ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS WHEN BRAKES APPLIED, THE GAS PEDAL IS PRESSED ALSO.

NO SUMMARY LISTED FOR ABOV EVEHICLE. *AK

AFTER APPROX 2 HOURS OF HIGHWAY DRIVING AIRCONDITION AIRFLOW DECREASES AND NO LONGER PRODUCES COOL AIR NO MATTER WHERE FAN SELECTION IS SET. COMPRESSOR HOUSING IS SWEATING. NO WATER COMING FROM DRAIN TUBE. REFRIGERANT LEVEL CHECKS NORMAL. AFTER AC IS TURNED OFF FOR APPROX 15 MIN OPERATION RETURNS TO NORMAL - DRAIN TUBE WATER FLOWS NORMAL. *AK

RECEIVED RECALL NOTICE 00V256000 7 MONTHS AGO. TOOK VEHICLE TO DEALERSHIP FOR REPAIRS. INFORMED BY MECHANIC THAT PCV PORT WAS ALREADY REPAIRED. AFTERWARDS, RECEIVED LETTER FROM MANUFACTURER THAT BRAKES WERE NOT REPAIRED. CONTACTED DEALER AGAIN, AND WAS INFORMED HAD NO PARTS AVAILABLE, BUT WILL ORDER PARTS OR LOCATE PARTS TO DO REPAIRS OF PCV PORT. *AK *SLC

THE HORN IS INOPERATIVE. NLM

WHILE DRIVING IN THE WIND, CONSUMER STATED THE VEHICLE WAS SHAKING AND ALL THE SUDDEN HE FOUND HIMSELF DOING CIRCLES AND CRASHING INTO A GUARD RAIL ON THE FRONT PASSENGER SIDE, CONSUMER HAS 2 OF THESE VEHICLES AND STATES THAT THEY PULL FROM THE REAR WHEN THERE IS WIND OR A LARGER VEHICLE THAT IS PASSING, TOYOTA FOUND NO PROBLEMS WITH VEHICLE. *SLC

CONSUMER WAS DRIVING AT APPROXIMATELY 50 MPH, HIT A STOPPED VEHICLE HEAD-ON, DUAL AIR BAGS FAILED TO DEPLOY, CAUSING BRUISES AND INJURIES FROM HITTING STEERING WHEEL. THERE WAS NO WARNING OR INDICATION OF DEFECTIVE AIR BAGS.FRONT END WAS TOTALED.*AK.*JB

WHILE COMING TO A STANDSTILL IN RAIN, ANOTHER VEHICLE HIT CONSUMER'S VEHICLE AT ABOUT 45 MPH, AND BOTH FROTAL AIR BAGS DID NOT DEPLOY. *AK

CONSUMER ATTEMPTED TO BRAKE AT STOP LIGHT, BRAKES FAILED. CONSUMER USED EMERGENCY BRAKE TO SLOW VEHICLE DOWN, BUT STILL HIT VEHICLE IN FRONT OF HER. *AK

VEHICLE IN A FRONT CRASH AT 35 MPH, AND AIRBAGS DID NOT DEPLOY. *AK

CONSUMER INVOLVED IN A FRONT CRASH, AND DRIVER'S AUTOMATIC SEATBELT DID NOT HOLD HER. CONSUMER SUSTAINED INJURIES. *AK

VEHICLE WOULD JERK FROM SIDE TO SIDE WHEN EVER LANES WERE WELL WORN AND HAD GROVES IN THEM. PROBLEM WAS INTERMITTENT, AND WOULD HAPPEN WITHOUT WARNING. *AK

CONSUMER WAS INVOLVED IN A 25 MPH FRONTAL COLLISION IN WHICH DRIVER/ PASSENGER AIR BAGS DID NOT DEPLOY, CAUSE UNKNOWN. *AK SENSOR UNIT BROKEN DURING THE COLLISION. *YH

CONSUMER WAS TRAVELING 55MPH ON HIGHWAY, VEERED OFF TO ROAD AND WAS TRYING TO GET CONTROL OF T VEHICLE. BUT, LOST CONTOL AND RAN INTO MERIDIAN STRIP AND CRASHED. UPON IMPACT, DUAL AIRBAGS DIDN'T DEPLOY. THE DEALERSHIP AWARE OF PROBLEM.*AK

CONSUMER HAD AN ACCIDENT THAT RESULTED BECAUSE DEALER DID NOT REPAIR RECALLED ITEM IN TIMELY MANNER. OVER THREE MONTHS AGO, DEALER SAID THEY WOULD NOTIFY CONSUMER WHEN PARTS ARRIVED, STILL HAS NOT RECEIVED CALL. *AK

WHEN DRIVING IN HEAVY RAIN THE VEHICLE DOES NOT MAINTAIN GEAR CAUSING THE VEHICLE TO LOOSE CONTROL AND SWERVE ALL OVER THE ROAD. NLM

CONSUMER WAS MAKING A LEFT TURN AND VEHICLE STARTED REVVING. VEHICLE WAS PULLING TO LEFT. CONSUMER HIT A TREE & STORE. FRONT PASSENGERS SUSTAINED NECK & BACK INJURIES. VEHICLE WAS A TOTAL LOSS. *AK

ROTTEN EGG SMELL ALL THE TIME, WHILE DRIVING MY CAR.*AK

WHILE APPLYING BRAKES VEHICLE ACCELERATED SUDDENLY AND UNEXPECTEDLY. DRIVER PUT VEHICLE INTO PARK TO STOP IT. DEALER WAS INSPECTING VEHICLE.*AK

CONSUMER WAS TRAVELING ABOUT 10MPH SHE WAS TURNING OUT OF PARKING ALLEY WHEN PASSENGER'S AIR BAG DEPLOYED. *AK

WHEN SHIFTING CAR INTO REVERSE, AND THEN PUTTING IT INTO DRIVE, VEHICLE LURCHED FORWARD WITH A TERRIBLE NOISE LIKE A BACK FIRE, CONSUMER GOT THROWN FORWARD SO HARD THAT ALMOST WENT THROUGH WINDSHIELD. *AK THE DEALER IS UNABLE TO FIND THE PROBLEM. *YH

VEHICLE FEELS UNSTABLIZED. WHEN VEHICLE IS MOVING MORE THAN 50 MPH IT WILL START TO SLIGHTLY SWERVE AND CAUSE CONSUMER TO FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE. IT WOULD FEEL AS IF THERE WAS GUSTY WINDS AGAINST THE VEHICLE, BUT THERE WOULD BE NO WIND OUTSIDE. DEALER HAS NO REMEDY..PLEASE FILL MORE INFORMATION. *AK

WHEN OCCUPANTS SAT IN VEHICLE AND GOT UP, THERE WAS A SQUEALING NOISE, ON THREE DIFFERENT OCCASIONS THE DEALER WOULD OIL AND ADJUST THE ALTERNATOR BELT, AFTER ABOUT TWO WEEKS THE NOISE REOCCURED AND FINALLY THE ALTERNATOR BELT WAS REPLACED, HOWEVER THE PROBLEM REOCCURED AGAIN.*JB

DRIVER'S SIDE, BEHIND THE DOOR, STRUCTURE WAS COMING APART ABOUT 2 INCHES, WHICH SEEMED THAT THIS VEHICLE WAS NOT PROPERLY MANUFACTURERED. PLEASE PROVIDE FURTHER INFORMATION. *AK

DRIVER WAS TRAVELING ON ROUTE 1 AT ABOUT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND ENTERED A SWEEPING CURVE AT 2:00 AM IN STAFFORD, VIRGINIA. THE DRIVER WAS RETURNING HOME FROM WORK AT WALMART. THE ROAD WAS WET DUE TO RECENT HEAVY RAINFALL. UPON ENTERING THE CURVE THE REAREND OF THE ECHO LURCHED WITHOUT ANY WARNING WHICH CAUSED THE REAR OF THE CAR TO SLAM AGAINST THE METAL GUARDRAIL AND TURNOVER ONTO ITS TOP. THE DRIVER WAS WEARING SEAT BELTS (BOTH SHOULDER AND LAP BELTS). THE STATE POLICE INVESTIGATED AND DID NOT CITE DRIVER SINCE THE DRIVER WAS NOT SPEEDING AND IN FACT WAS DRIVING LESS THAN THE RECOMMENDED SPEED DUE TO WET ROADS. THE DRIVER RECEIVED SEVERAL DEEP LACERATIONS NEAR THE RIGHT EYE WHICH REQUIRED STITCHES AND WILL REQUIRE PLASTIC SURGERY, ACCORDING TO THE ER DOCTOR AT MARY WASHINGTON HOSPITAL. I AM CONCERNED THAT THERE MAY BE A HIDDEN HANDLING PROBLEM WITH THE CAR THAT HAS NOT COME TO LIGHT DUE TO THE NEWNESS OF THIS PARTICULAR MODEL. ALSO, WHEN THE REAREND OF THE CAR LOST TRACTION AND SLAMMED INTO THE METAL SIDE BARRIER OF THE ROAD, THE AIR BAG DID NOT DEPLOY (MAYBE IT WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO). BOTTOM LINE: THE CAR LOST TRACTION WHEN THE REAR OF THE CAR VIOLENTLY SWUNG OUT DESPITE THE DRIVER TRAVELING AT A SLOW SPEED WHICH MIGHT INDICATE A PROBLEM WITH THE DESIGN OF THE CAR. *AK

WHILE TRAVELING AT 65 MPH VEHICLE BECAME VERY DIFFICULT TO OPERATE AND DRIFTED OFF THE ROAD, CROSSING THREE LANES. CONSUMER HAS CONTACTED THE DEALER. PLEASE PROVIDE ANY FURTHER DETAILS. *AK