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2012 Toyota PRIUS Power Train Problems, Complaints and Defects

Issue ID	1056174
Internal NHTSA #	10578554
Manufacurer	Toyota Motor Corporation
Brand	TOYOTA
Model	PRIUS
Model Year	2012
File date	07/04/14
Component	POWER TRAIN
Product type code	VEHICLE
Description of the problem	I pulled up to a car wash and once i was on the track i tried to put the vehicle into neutral and it would not work. The automatic car wash track started to try to pull the vehicle forward. As im frantically trying to make it go into neutral, the vehicle started to hop off the track and was getting violently thrashed around as it was getting pulled forward causing the person running the wash to have to manually hit a panic button to stop it. Fortunately there was no damage to either the vehicle or the car wash but it is very disturbing that it would not work. It took several employees to be able to figure out how it worked. It should be simple... It's not!!! Way to complicated and i'm still not 100% sure after trying to put it in neutral how it works. It just sometimes will go into neutral after trying it over and over.... Very unsafe.
Vehicle Mileage at Failure	16000
Number of Occurences	1
Source of the issue	NHTSA WEB SITE
City and State	SOUTH BEND, IN
VIN pattern	JTDKN3DU1C1XXXXXX
Was vehicle invloved in a crash?	N
Was vehicle involved in a fire?	N
Was incedent reported to police?	N
Was medical attention required?
Was part original equipment?
No. of injured persons	0
No. of fatalities	0
Date of purchase	29/06/24
Was original owner?	N
Anti-lock brakes	N
Cruise control	N
Number of cylinders	4
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Vehicle speed	0
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A recall is when a product is removed from the market or a correction is made to the product because it is either defective or potentially harmful.
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Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success. Product failure ranges from failure to sell the product to fracture of the product, in the worst cases leading to personal injury, the province of forensic engineering.
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Non-conformance of a car component with the specified requirements, or non-fulfillment of user expectations, including the safety aspects.

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2012 Toyota PRIUS Power Train Problems, Complaints and Defects, Recalls and Failures

2012 Toyota PRIUS Power Train Problems, Complaints and Defects

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