2012 Toyota Corolla Brakes Problems

“When I driving was okay, it's only 20-25 miles speeding, I was trying to stop at the signal light, the break doesn't work and I stopped the car with side break. It caused the accident.”

“As I was approaching a stop light, I began applying my brakes & slowing down.as I got closer to the vehicle in front of me I applied full pressure. My vehicle surged forward & I had the brake pedal completely to the floor. I could not swerve due to oncoming traffic. This resulted in me rear-ending the vehicle in front of me. I had only purchased the car a week before! I took the car into the dealership & explained what had happened. They checked out the braking system & said that it was working properly & they could find nothing wrong with it. …”

“While driving northbound on interstate I-75 home during rush hour in the metro-detroit area, the vehicle sped up in excess of 90mph! I almost caused a collision. The gas pedal did not react to my foot not even being on the pedal! I braked and pumped the brake to only control my speed. When I finally got the vehicle to park, the engine was still running at a high rate like the engine was reacting to pressure on the gas pedal. The car smelled like smoke from the brake pad. If it wasn't for the brake pad, I might of been more severely injured or worse. …”

“While waiting for the traffic light to change and my foot on the brakes, the car suddenly accelerated and despite shifting to park and pulling on the emergency brake the car continued to rev very high for several minutes. Just prior to acceleration, the car's brakes became very soft and sunk all the way to the floor of the car as if someone had depressed the power in the brake line. I turned off the engine and waited for about 2 minutes and restarted the car. The engine raced again at very high speeds with the emergency brake on and the car set at park. …”

“Last year I got into a motor vehicle accident which I believe was caused by brake failure on a new 2012 Toyota Corolla le vehicle I had purchased. I informed both my insurance company at the time and the dealership where I purchased the vehicle after the crash that something had gone wrong with my brakes causing the vehicle to spiral out of control. It began to veer in the opposite direction and swerving on the highway into oncoming traffic! I was not intoxicated, texting or doing anything illegal, simply on my way to work.no one took my comment seriously. …”