Thanks for the analysis, I spent some significant time with the owners manual after this event. Our experience sounds similar, 300+ miles since the incident and okay so far, will keep you posted.
Well, the dealer had the car for two days because they were waiting for a diagnostic computer cable. No codes had been stored. So now I drive it and wait to see what happens. I did see a TSB on the VSC system but no details were available, if it happens again I'll call Toyota Corporate.
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'03 v6. Was at a stop light the other day and as soon as I started to accelerateI heard a thud and the VSC light came on, I was accelerating very slowly on clean dry pavement. I puulled to the side of the road and the light went. I have driven the car twice since then for a total of about 10...