More Toyota owners who've had their recalled vehicles repaired by dealers to prevent sudden unexplained acceleration are complaining that the fixes didn't repair their vehicles.

The number of such complaints to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 105 according to the Associated Press, are still relatively minuscule compared with tens of thousands of vehicles that have been repaired by now.

But the fact that owners are still reporting that the throttles on their cars seem to have minds of their own doesn't do much to put to rest concerns that some of the problems may be electronic after all and not mechanical, as the automaker insists.

The AP reports it analyzed NHTSA data and found that complaints about unintended acceleration in supposedly repaired cars almost doubled from early March.

An excerpt from the AP story:

An AP review of a NHTSA database found reports of repaired cars
continuing to accelerate on their own had jumped to 105 since March
4, when the government reported 60 such complaints.

The complaints are submitted online or through a NHTSA hot line
and have not been independently verified.

In many of the comments, which can be filed anonymously, owners said the sudden acceleration issue reappeared only days after their cars were fixed at their local dealership.

"I went in for the recall and it seems there is a worse problem now," wrote the owner of a 2008 Toyota Tundra in Boynton Beach, Fla., who reported unwanted acceleration in early March. "I truly believe this is an electronic problem."

 

John Moscicki, of Lake Oswego, Ore., told the AP his 2007 Camry accelerated on its own five times before he got the vehicle fixed under the floor mat recall last month.

On March 4, his repaired Camry took off from a standing stop on the freeway and accelerated to 50 mph before Moscicki managed to stop it by shifting into neutral, hitting the brake with his left foot and pulling back the gas pedal with his right.

"It just went to the floor like some other system had control of it," said Moscicki, who raced high-performance sports cars and previously owned a Porsche restoration business.

His Toyota dealer had the Camry for a week, and Toyota sent in a field engineer to examine the car without finding anything wrong.

Moscicki said he had planned to give the vehicle to his college-age daughter but now intends to get rid of it. "I wouldn't let her anywhere near this car," he said.