The check engine light comes on and car won't accelerate! This has happened four times since November 2918. Only solution to begin accelerating is to turn off the engine for a moment and restart the engine. The check engine light remains on for an undeterminable amount of time; sometimes for 20 minutes, sometimes for the most part of a day. After the initial failure to accelerate, the non-acceleration problem goes away even though the trouble light comes on upon starting the engine throughout the day. By the time I drive from Alaminos city to the nearest Toyota shop in calasiao, the check engine light goes off and Toyota technicians say they can't diagnose the problem unless the check engine light is on.

This problem is dangerous, especially in the Philippines where there is no mercy for a disabled car in traffic. The downside of buying a Toyota is the lack of response to a major problem such as this. If my wife or any passenger is injured or killed because of an accident resulting from the problem of not being able to accelerate, believe me when I say I will own the Toyota dealership and a big part of Toyota if it takes every attorney in the Philippines to bring legal action.

I have been fortunate to have had the problem occur only one time on a busy highway, and I was able to idle off to a shoulder of the highway before I was possibly hit by approaching vehicles, while my car had my wife and two passengers with me. I'm thankful there WAS a shoulder; in many places in the Philippines there is no shoulder or if there is, it's taken up by vendors, or parked vehicles, or people drying rice paylay.

Since the problem doesn't occur on a regular basis, and I have been unable to determine any kind of pattern to the occurrence, it doesn't make sense to drive 65 dangerous km to the dealer in hopes or anticipation of the problem occurring.

Everyday I bring the car going to work (it's an automatic transmission). 1st experience was about 2 years ago and Toyota fixed it by resetting the ECU and erasing the history failure. In this year, a repeated outcome has occur in the month of May, and again Toyota repeated the same routine where they tell me that they see no signs of failure, it's maybe a matter of confusion in the ECU. Afterwards, I experience daily up to this date the removing of battery terminal twice a day for me to proceed to go to work...

I know this isn't normal for a 5 year car and I'm worried for accidents to happen and parts to deteriorate, especially the impact on the ECU.