Has anyone else experienced the following problem with their Corolla Verso T180?

When started from cold the car has very little power and struggles to accelerate, or rev over about 2000rpm, for the first 2 or 3 miles. After that it seems to quickly come to life! It is so bad that a slight climbing road forces me to drop into second gear to maintain progress, and speeds over about 20mph are difficult. Like I say, it clears after the first couple of miles. Any ideas??

Get in touch with your dealer, it may be subject to an ECU re-flash!

Kingo

Had exactly the same problem last August with the car requiring a new turbo; fortunately £5k worth of work under warranty.
Problem came back again recently - another new turbo, ecu upgrade amogst other things. Dealer could not explain why it had failed twice or the cause of the failure, unheard of fault with the car. Collected today from the dealer £2.3K bill, again under warranty.
Off the road for a week with no courtesy car both times. Not even an apology from Toyota. Had run in parallel with poor fuel economy - low 30's.
Won't buy again

Best of luck, at least Toyota are aware of the problem now.

Thanks for that information. The car is going into my local Toyota garage next Tuesday so I'll post their findings up once I know more......

Well the car has been with my local Toyota garage since Tuesday and they haven't found the cause yet. Apparently they agree the fault is there but the ECU is not displaying a fault so they are scratching their heads and trying replacing things - sounds expensive already! Wait and see I guess.....

Had the same initially with my local dealer - can't track down the fault, errors not logged on the ECU - they ended up talking to Toyota HQ who had them run tests to identify the turbo problem. Even now not convinced they know what caused it, even though it is now fixed.
The ECU fix posted elsewhere did not correct the fault. Insist on getting them to focus on the turbo. Best of luck, hope its covered under warranty.

So the Toyota garage could not prove that the turbo was (or wasn't) the reason for the fault. They gave me the car back as I told them I'd rather get the turbo reconditioned than have a new one fitted becuase of the cost. I am going to get it done and see if that sorts the problem. Thanks for the inputs on this forum which have helped me decide that this is the way to go. Still amazed that a main dealer cannot isolate the cause of a fault but there you go!

[quote name='Jim1758' post='860670' date='Mar 2 2009, 02:52 PM']Has anyone else experienced the following problem with their Corolla Verso T180?

When started from cold the car has very little power and struggles to accelerate, or rev over about 2000rpm, for the first 2 or 3 miles. After that it seems to quickly come to life! It is so bad that a slight climbing road forces me to drop into second gear to maintain progress, and speeds over about 20mph are difficult. Like I say, it clears after the first couple of miles. Any ideas??[/quote]


hiya i have just bought a T180 and mine has the same prob . but also when is has warmed up mine seems to a bit slugish in the lower revs as if its abit luggish when you put yr foot down until you hit the 2000 revs mark

Hello

I had all sorts of problems with my T180, starting, sluggish and losing power when travelling. Been into the garage loads of times.

I took it back after reading on this site of a possible recall and sure enough they said, oh yes we were going to recall because of the problems. Anyway they have done the computer update and the MPG is much better since, possibly because the idle is now set at only 900 when it was 1100. But I do now notice how sluggish it is especially in the lower gears.

Also had new front discs due to the problems with grinding breaks (again a known problem). This was done free of charge. I am fairly happy with my car at the moment.........my fingers are firmly crossed.

[quote name='karjon' post='882318' date='Apr 21 2009, 09:12 PM']Hello

I had all sorts of problems with my T180, starting, sluggish and losing power when travelling. Been into the garage loads of times.

I took it back after reading on this site of a possible recall and sure enough they said, oh yes we were going to recall because of the problems. Anyway they have done the computer update and the MPG is much better since, possibly because the idle is now set at only 900 when it was 1100. But I do now notice how sluggish it is especially in the lower gears.

Also had new front discs due to the problems with grinding breaks (again a known problem). This was done free of charge. I am fairly happy with my car at the moment.........my fingers are firmly crossed.[/quote]


have you noticed a noise from the engine when you excellerate sounds a bit like a rattle . untill you hit the 2000 rev mark. mainley when u poot your foot down hard or going up hill

Argh - I just bought a '55 plate T180 thinking 'need a people carrier, want 180bhp and a smile, what could go wrong?'

Since then, the 29mpg and laggy hills have been worrying me a bit. How do you know if the ECU update has been done, and is it free? I got it from a local non-Toyota dealer but I had them service it at Toyota first - are they supposed to do updates during a service?

Thanks :-(

Z