2009 Lexus ES350 Vehicle speed control Problems

“My wife and I experienced an uncontrollable runaway of our new (3 weeks old and less than 200 miles) Lexus es-350 car on 09/27/2009. The car was totaled. At time, both police and ambulance were called. And we were sent to the nearby shady grove hospital for checkup and treatments. Initially, I thought it could be because I mistakenly pressed the gas pedal, instead of the brake, when I tried to slow down the car preparing to make a left-hand turn onto rt. 28. …”

“I put the car on d to drive. I stopped at a red light, I brake the car to stop. When the light turned green, I pressed on the gas pedal to drive forward, but the car reversed without me putting on r. The reverse go was slow. When it reversed, I tried to stop the car car by pressing on the brake pedal, but I could not stop the car that way. I had to turn off the car to stop the reverse. The car reversed like that both times sporadically on two consecutive days - on 11.11.2014 and on the morning of 11.12.2014. My car was under warranty. …”

“When I was going to park my car in the box in front of the hotel room, I touched the accelerator slightly to advance the two meters distant to be properly parked, then the accelerator run in high speed the brakes did not respond. To reduce the impact, I turned the wheel to the right and crashed into the hotel wall. People from Lexus is making an investigation. The question is how confident is that investigation. The car was check the day before for 15,000 miles check. I live now in durango, mexico and just came to have my car checked.”

“My vehicle Lexus ES350 (2009) is under recall for safety as it gas pedal is getting stuck in some cases. I had difficult time for Lexus to take care and to fix this problem. But I want to report that Lexus does still not own its responsibility. I had called Lexus on feb 19, 2010, to check on the status of the recall repair. I was told: car is safe to drive and that 'it is not a safety recall. This was told to me repeatedly, even though I kept telling the Lexus person that their own website is saying contrary to her claim. …”

“On july 22, 2010 I had been traveling from cape cod and was on i84 using my cruise control on my 2009 Lexus es, set to 64 MPH. I would cancel it by pushing the lever towards me when traffic got heavy and push resume when I had an open road. After traveling about 210 mi and using it in the above manner it would not resume as before. The car would surge and accelerate to over 75 MPH. I had to cancel the cruise for it to stop accelerating because it was not stopping. I was not using the pedals at any time. I tried it twice. The same thing happened. …”