Safety feature almost got me killed

[Kennyg]

I was exiting a side street onto a major 4-lane road. A car was approacing from the left in the left lane and I was turning right into the right lane. The 2025 4-runner decided on its own that it was not safe to do what I was doing and stopped letting me accelerate around the corner. It just stopped dead as I was entering the right lane! Finally, after about 10 seconds and the car in the left lane had passed, my 4R gave control back to me and let me proceed.

Damn!

Now, I have to find the one driving assist feature that almost caused me to be in an accident and turn that mutha off.

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[HVLA]

ALL of that nonsense will be turned off in the dealer parking lot.

 

[Michaelkael]

I was exiting a side street onto a major 4-lane road. A car was approacing from the left in the left lane and I was turning right into the right lane. The 2025 4-runner decided on its own that it was not safe to do what I was doing and stopped letting me accelerate around the corner. It just stopped dead as I was entering the right lane! Finally, after about 10 seconds and the car in the left lane had passed, my 4R gave control back to me and let me proceed.

Damn!

Now, I have to find the one driving assist feature that almost caused me to be in an accident and turn that mutha off.

I despise those babysitters POSs !
Glad you got out of it safe ! ??

 

[papadop88]

The same thing happened on my motorcycle. That was the first and last time I used any safety features. I disable all that nanny crap the first day.

 

[88fox]

We disabled them as well a few days after getting our 25 4Runner Limited for the same reasons. But a few of them keep coming back on after the 4Runner is turned off and then turned back on for another trip. Is there a way to permanently disable the ones you don't want? I went through all of the Settings and thought I did it right, but if anyone has any advice I would appreciate it. Thanks.

 

[Kennyg]

We disabled them as well a few days after getting our 25 4Runner Limited for the same reasons. But a few of them keep coming back on after the 4Runner is turned off and then turned back on for another trip. Is there a way to permanently disable the ones you don't want? I went through all of the Settings and thought I did it right, but if anyone has any advice I would appreciate it. Thanks.

I will report back in a few days, but I'm reading that the Pre-Collision System, which is what I think stopped me in the middle of the road the other day, can only be disabled until the next time the car is started. If this is so, I guess my only remedy will be to wait until it actually causes an accident then sue the hell out of Toyota.

 

[88fox]

I have driven the 4Runner a few times since my post and I believe you are correct. It does revert back to On each time. Ugh.

 

[Michaelkael]

Hopefully something like Carista can fix permanently ?!

 

[828findadventure]

It's possible an OBDeleven could turn those off. I use one on our GTI to customize all the electronics and they work on newer Toyota's I have heard.

 

[Kennyg]

After driving a few days and trying different ways to disable the PCS, I have concluded there is no way to disable it permanently using the menus on the instrument cluster. It defaults to ON every time you restart the vehicle. But, it will remember the sensitivity setting. I set it to minimum sensitivity and it stayed there after a restart. I'm hoping this will be enough to keep it from getting in my way.

I found a reference to turning it off simply by holding in the Traction Control button for 5 seconds. Yes, this does turn off the Traction Control AND the PCS but is only for the current driving session. It still defaults to ON after a restart. Plus, it annoyingly keeps putting up a large warning on the instrument cluster. I dismiss it with the BACK button but it comes back a few seconds later.

Hopefully, someone will try the aftermarket OBD2 tools and report here if one of those can turn PCS off permanently.

 

[SouthCoast]

Carista does not have an option to disable this permanently, I've looked...

You have to disable it every time the vehicle starts.

I can't find a fuse associated with it either.

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