Numerous times while driving, regardless of speed (sometimes on the highway at 75 mph, others when pulling out from a stop to cross a busy intersection), the vehicle seizes and I lose control of all acceleration and braking mechanisms, while the engine revs and the car slows to almost total stop, with my only hope of swerving into a ditch to avoid being rear ended by the cars and massive mac trucks behind my vehicle, impossible to avoid colliding on the narrow steep rural roads. In the course of one mile, today specifically, the vehicle convulsed and seized four separate occasions, where I could only turn my blinker on and hope people could go around me. I long considered this issue related to slippery road conditions, because that's what it feels like, though experiencing the terror of losing complete control on a hot sunny, dry day last summer put the severity of this issue into perspective- the driver needs to be in control of the vehicle and the full operator of every function to prevent the vehicle from becoming a deadly weapon. This vehicle inhibits my ability to prevent harm. In trying to diagnose this issue, I have spent tens of thousands of dollars, and the vehicle still remains unsafe. On 4/9/18, I spent $2,065.29 to replace wheel bearings for the second time in under a year and a half, as well as serviced the emergency break, purchased new tires yet again, and rebuilt the entire transmission. Back on 11/20/17, the vehicle received brand new lf wheel bearing and brand new spark plugs for $535.29 to cure the power issue, to no avail. Only 8 months earlier on 3/30/17, I spent in excess of $1200 to service the struts, shocks, rear brakes, break pads, rodars, brake callipers, and rear emergency break, and still the issue persisted. The engine, wheels, and brakes of this 2007 Toyota matrix continue to impede my ability to keep the people on the road safe.

- Bow, NH, USA

Maus Toyota refuses to replace "flying hupcaps"! (orlando) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- hi, I purchased a 2007 Matrix new from maus Toyota and all 4 hubcaps came off when driving because they were only held on with plastic clips. I have talked to other Matrix owners and seen many Matrixs with missing hubcaps. Maus Toyota says it will replace the hubcaps for $77. Each! I told maus that Toyota should recall the 2007 Matrixs before someone gets hurt by a flying hubcap coming off at 60mph and there should be no replacement charge because it is Toyota's fault for using weak plastic clips to hold their hubcaps on! I hope wesh can help hundreds of "ugly" Matrix owners get free, safe replacement hubcaps from Toyota and recall the dangerous loose ones now on their 2007 Matrixs. I can send a photo if necessary.

- Orange City, FL, USA

I have had four wheel covers come off at high speeds. In two cases I was able to hear noises and this represented the wheel cover hitting objects as it would have been traveling over 60 miles per hour. The automobile is a 2007 Toyota Matrix without any options. Thus it is factory equipped with plastic covers that slowly work their way loose due to the very little construction of the cover and the flexing of the wheel that will occur. I contacted Toyota. I was told in a somewhat arrogant voice that they do "not" have a problem. This is a problem and at some point in time one of these covers will stick a person. I have now changed to a Toyota camery wheel cover. This cover has a great deal of additional parts to it. It has springs and an additional material that prevents the slow movement of the wheel cover from coming off. I lost a total of the original covers. Toyota is charging in excess of $70 for a replacement. Thus if it was my car I might be delighted that I am profiting from a poor engineering mistake. This experience from having contacted Toyota allows me to have an appreciation for what must be arrogance at the upper level management of this corporation. Strong measures should be applied and the source of this poor attitude should be weeded out of this corporation.

- Stockton, CA, USA