1998 Toyota Prerunner

Routine

Owners filed 2 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the vehicle speed control › accelerator pedal. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Vehicle Speed Control › Accelerator Pedal1
000
Engine and Engine Cooling1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Engine and Engine Cooling
Filed Nov 6, 2009CA

WE HAVE A 1998 TOYOTA TACOMA. SOON AFTER PURCHASING THE TRUCK WE NOTICED THAT IT WOULD SURGE WHEN AT A STOP. IN OTHER WORDS, THE ENGINE WILL REV UP EVEN THOUGH WE DON'T HAVE OUR FOOT ON THE ACCELERATOR. WE REPORTED THE PROBLEM TO THE AGENCY WHERE WE PURCHASED THE TRUCK AND THEY SUPPOSEDLY REPORTED THE PROBLEM TO TOYOTA. THEY REPORTED BACK TO US THAT THEY AND TOYOTA HAD NEVER HAD ANY SIMILAR COMPLAINTS OF THIS KIND AND THEY DID NOT KNOW WHAT MIGHT BE CAUSING THE PROBLEM. WE WERE UNABLE TO DUPLICATED THE PROBLEM WHEN TEST DRIVING WITH THE SERVICE MANAGER AT THE AGENCY. WE NEVER KNOW WHEN IT WILL HAPPEN. WHEN MY WIFE TALKED TO THE SERVICE MANAGER, HE TRIED TO CONVINCE HER THAT IT WAS HER FAULT AND IT HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE WAY SHE DROVE THE TRUCK. HE SAID THAT SHE SHOULD CONTINUED DRIVING UNTIL THE TRUCK GOT USED TO HER DRIVING STYLE. WHAT A CROCK OF CRAP. AFTER THE PROBLEM AROSE AND WE GOT ALL THIS '!@#$%' FROM THE AGENCY, I LOOKED AROUND THE INTERNET AND FOUND THAT MANY OTHER PEOPLE HAVE HAD THE SAME PROBLEM. SOME OF THEM HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN FATAL ACCIDENTS. SOMETHING SHOULD BE DONE ABOUT THIS PROBLEM BEFORE MORE PEOPLE ARE KILLED. I FILLED IN A DATE BELOW, BUT REALLY DON'T KNOW WHEN THE PROBLEM OCCURRED. IT WAS AT VARIOUS TIME SINCE WE PURCHASED THE TRUCK. *TR

Vehicle Speed Control › Accelerator Pedal
Filed Feb 26, 200325,000 milesWV

THE ACCELERATOR BECAME STUCK.*JB

2 of 2 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2001
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20026000Routine
20017000Routine
19997000Routine
1998 — this page2000Routine
19973000Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.