2014 Toyota Highlander Steering Problems

“My Toyota Highlander 2014 has a huge security and safety issue. Its steering wheel jammed and it become completely disabled while I was driving and the engine wont start again. It has the following messages in the dashboard. 1- 'eps failure. Steering wheel is harder to turn'. 2- 'the engine has stopped. Please put the shift lever to p'. 3- 'trac off' 4- 'brake override system failure'. My car had same issue back aug 2017 but the Toyota dealership claimed that they didn't see such issue and the car started normal. …”

“I was backing out of my parking space and the vehicle jerk. Then a warning sign appear on the dash that said eps failure. The steering wheel was hard to turn. I began to struggle with the steering wheel at that point it was lock. After several attempts; I was able to pull into an empty parking space, parked the vehicle and had it towed to dick dyer in columbia sc. The dealership was not able to confirm what was actually wrong with the vehicle. At this time, they think they found the problem. The technician stated he has never seen such a problem before and was not sure how to fix it. …”

“Vehicle shut off during driving, causing all electrical systems to fail including the electronic steering, which since vehicle also turned off, caused the steering column to lock up. Since the problem occurred at speed and infact while making a turn, a near collision occured. The problem occured multiple times in succession and was also intermittent with much time elapsing between episodes. Two other types of related occurrences during this timeframe were the (1) vehicle also cycling off and on and (2) would also turn on itself if the key was in the vicinity of the vehicle. …”

“Steering column locked on several occasions while driving. Electrical systems blink on and off. Exactly as described in NHTSA recall #15V144000 and as far I can tell the exact same part number.”