2008 Toyota Highlander Fuel system Problems

“Highlander hybrid 2008 we were driving on a country back road. In idaho, we had just stopped at a stop sign and went to drive forward after going around 100-200 meters and the car lurched forward while I was driving and then the screen with all the warnings began going off. All of them saying pull over tot the side of the road and that all the systems were failing. All the warnings said things to take the car to dealer. …”

“I was involved in a car accident on 08/17/2010 while driving my 2008 Toyota Highlander that has 23000 miles on it. The accident caused me total damage to my car and put my life in danger due to failure in the break/acceleration system on the car. The car did not stop but accelerated even though when I was pressing the break which caused me to hit a truck that was passing in front of me. …”

“2008 Highlander hybrid limited check engine light came on and showed code p0a1b - drive motor 'a' control module, the code was cleared manually and the check engine light went off, the next day the light came back on after driving about 3 miles then parked. The next day the light went off on its own as we took it to the Toyota dealership and has not been back on since driving it there and back, the dealership said they drove around a little and the light never came on, we brought it home and have driven about 7 miles without the light coming on. …”

“While my wife was driving the vehicle straight (she believes she was traveling under 25 MPH as she came to a red light) on a busy road the vehicle made a beeping alert sound and the display rotated through the following messages: (!) check brake system- have your vehicle checked by a dealer, brake brake malfunction- stop the vehicle in a safe place immediately and contact dealer, ABS check ABS- have your vehicle checked by a dealer, check vsc system- have your vehicle checked by a dealer. Luckily she was within a mile or two of my home and was able to get it there safely. …”

“Leased the car new. On the odometer it had over 60 miles registered. From the first day, the valves were sounding loudly. The valves are still sounding loudly, at 15, 000 miles. I informed the service dept, but really nothing was done. When warming up the car, when I first had it, the car was running very rough. The service dept. Corrected this. At 15,000 miles a fuel injector had to be replaced. Service consultant states he will check this in one year. I wanted to know how come the fuel injector had to be replace and was this normal in other car. New fuel injector was inserted. …”