I do not know how to rate this problem, my car has been rattling for over a year. I spent money to get it fixed and it has not stopped. Toyota claims I have recalls but when I went to dealer he told me I had to paid to check it and if it was related to the rattle that the car was recalled on they would fix it.

This past Saturday, I had my car in the driveway in park, running I got out of my car to talk to the postman, I walked around my car to my mailbox, and next thing I saw my car was running like someone had their foot on the gas out of my driveway. I attempted to catch it by I was on the wrong side. It hit a tree across the street and crashed the whole back of my car it totaled.

I am sick of it and I am done with this car. I know there were over five recalls, but I was told the parts were not in, and they would contact me when they came I have never heard anything from the dealer. I do not know what to do now. I have full coverage, but my rates will go up anyway, this is too much I am scared of my own car, time for a new one.

Update from Aug 1, 2016: Also did make a police report the next morning, the postal worker will verify what happened.

Whenever we are traveling at 40 mph and we reach 1500 rpms, there is a rattling noise. It doesn't happen when we are accelerating quickly. Only during a gentle Acceleration. The vibration usually holds for 1-2 seconds. The car has been making this sounds for quite awhile. We took it to a transmission specialist who said that it was a faulty torque converter. The specialist said he hadn't had any luck fixing this issue in rav4s. And replaced transmissions ended up with the same problem in less time. We can't even pay this astronomical repair cost (quoted at 4700) to fix the car because it won't fix the problem. So the car is essentially totaled. At 70,000 miles and 6 years of use.