Toyota Recall - Accelerator Pedal may get stuck [merged]

[DonCamote]

US Toyota Recall Report from Reuters

Toyota said its own investigation in recent months had found that some accelerator pedals on those Toyota brand models might stick in a partially depressed position or return slowly to idle.

The latest recall includes the 2009 and 2010 RAV4; the 2009 and 2010 Corolla; the 2009 and 2010 Matrix; the 2005 to 2010 Avalon; the 2007 to 2010 Camry; the 2010 Highlander; the 2007 to 2010 Tundra; and the 2008 to 2010 Sequoia.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKN219690120100122

I hope Toyota Philippines will fully disclose if their units here are affected by this recall. Because even if this is a news in the US, you can't help but worry that they similar design and might even source parts from the same places.

[xda2jojo]

tsk tsk....biglang ganoon ang avanza ko, two times na nagyari sakin, nasa 7k paako ngayon.
Paakyat ako from basement parking,
Noong nasa taas naako then shift to neutral, naiwan ang accelator for around 3 to 4seconds pagtanggal ko sa paa ko then slowly down.
I thought na floor mat lang eto, pacheck ko nga eto sa casa.

[ajOT]

thanks for the info..... this is a good head's up for Toyota owner's

this is kinda scary when you are speeding up then suddenly there's a traffic in front, when the gas pedal get's stuck....

hoping this not happen on my car....

[xda2jojo]

thanks for the info..... this is a good head's up for Toyota owner's

this is kinda scary when you are speeding up then suddenly there's a traffic in front, when the gas pedal get's stuck....

hoping this not happen on my car....

Di naman yata, basta mabilis kalang tapak sa clutch pedal and break slowly,

[dekzee]

Di naman yata, basta mabilis kalang tapak sa clutch pedal and break slowly,

kung manual tranny ok lang. imagine kung matic ang kotse me and the accelerator got 'stuck'. scary

[yapoy86]

dapat mabilis tapak brake then mabilis lagay ang paa sa ilalim ng accelerator para ibalik pataas..

delikado to kahit manual ang kotse

[p_borj]

tsk tsk....biglang ganoon ang avanza ko, two times na nagyari sakin, nasa 7k paako ngayon.
Paakyat ako from basement parking,
Noong nasa taas naako then shift to neutral, naiwan ang accelator for around 3 to 4seconds pagtanggal ko sa paa ko then slowly down.
I thought na floor mat lang eto, pacheck ko nga eto sa casa.

so may nangyari na palang ganito dito amfs! buti nalang sir manual tranny vanzy mo, mas nakakatakot sa A/T yan. sticky pedals tsk3.

[_Cathy_]

Do you think I should postpone buying an Altis? I am planning on getting one next month. I am such a big Toyota fan but this is a serious issue.

[p_borj]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100127/..._toyota_recall

WASHINGTON – Toyota is suspending U.S. sales of eight car and truck models to fix sticking gas pedals and halting production lines at plants from Texas to Canada to deal with the problem, the latest to confront the world's No. 1 automaker.


The suspended sales, announced Tuesday, involve a significant portion of Toyota Motor Co.'s fleet and some of its most popular vehicles, including the Camry and Corolla. As part of the plan, Toyota is halting some production at five assembly plants beginning the week of Feb. 1 "to assess and coordinate activities."


There are 2.3 million vehicles involved in the recall, which was announced last week. Toyota has said it was unaware of any accidents or injuries due to the pedal problems associated with the recall, but could not rule them out for sure.


"This action is necessary until a remedy is finalized," said Bob Carter, Toyota's group vice president and general manager.
The Japanese automaker said the sales suspension includes the following models: the 2009-2010 RAV4, the 2009-2010 Corolla, the 2007-2010 Camry, the 2009-2010 Matrix, the 2005-2010 Avalon, the 2010 Highlander, the 2007-2010 Tundra and the 2008-2010 Sequoia.


Aaron Bragman, an auto analyst for the consulting firm IHS Global Insight in Troy, Mich., said Toyota typically sells about 65,000 Camrys and Corollas a month, and the frozen sales could strike the company's bottom line and reputation for quality.


"That's huge if they can't sell these and they don't have a fix identified. They need to go and get a solution to this fast," Bragman said.
Toyota sold more than 34,000 Camrys in December, making the midsize sedan America's best-selling car. It commands 3.4 percent of the U.S. market and sales rose 38 percent from a year earlier. Sales of the Corolla and Matrix, a small sedan and a hatchback, totaled 34,220 last month, with 3.3 percent of the market and sales up nearly 55 percent from December of 2008.


It was unclear how long Toyota would suspend production of the vehicles. In an e-mail to employees, company officials said, "we don't know yet how long this pause will last but we will make every effort to resume production soon."


Toyota officials did not immediately return phone messages.
The automaker said the move would affect plants in Princeton, Ind., Lafayette, Ind., Georgetown, Ky., San Antonio, Texas, and a facility in Ontario, Canada. About 300 workers who build V8 engines at a Toyota plant in Huntsville, Ala., will also be affected, said Stephanie Deemer, a spokeswoman for the plant.


Deemer said workers there would have the option of receiving additional training, take vacation or unpaid leave.
Toyota said no other North American Toyota facility would be affected by the decision.


Toyota dealers said they were concerned the move would hamper sales and were hopeful parts to fix the problem could be distributed quickly.
"They're going the extra mile to reassure people that they really care about the customers," said Earl Stewart, owner of a Toyota dealership in North Palm Beach, Fla. "It is something that's going to be at least a short-term hardship on the dealers, and especially on Toyota."


The auto company said the sales suspension would not affect Lexus or Scion vehicles. Toyota said the Prius, Tacoma, Sienna, Venza, Solara, Yaris, 4Runner, FJ Cruiser, Land Cruiser and select Camry models, including all Camry hybrids, would remain for sale.


Toyota said last week it was recalling 2.3 million vehicles in the U.S. to fix accelerator pedals with mechanical problems that could cause them to become stuck.


The announcement followed a larger recall months earlier of 4.2 million vehicles because of problems with gas pedals becoming trapped under floor mats, causing sudden acceleration. That problem was the cause of several crashes, including some fatalities.
Owners with questions can call the Toyota Customer Experience Center at (800) 331-4331

[Monseratto]

Is there a similar recall for locally available models?

[p_borj]

Is there a similar recall for locally available models?

tingin ko wala naman hehe Thailand CBU naman ang Toyota dito sa atin. (Vios yata ang locally assembled dito). sharing lang naman since this is global pa rin, at para sa mga naka high end na Toyota models dito like Sequioa (sorry sa spelling kung mali hirap i-spell eh hehe).

[uls]

increasing concern for Toyota's quality standard in the US

Toyota expanded too aggressively in recent years

it's very obvious something was sacrificed

[Monseratto]

Is there a difference between the US Camry, Corolla and RAV4 troubled accelerator pedals to the local version? Also isn't the accelerator problem really more due to use of non-OEM floormats than a real design defect?

[dingch]

to add more info...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Toyota_vehicle_recall

[niky]

Well... if your throttle cable got stuck before, there was no back-up... except common sense.

[A121]

I'd still get a Toyota over other vehicles.

Read these articles...

http://editorial.autos.msn.com/artic...mentid=1128584

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/we...w/07segal.html


and why blame the light steering? if you can't hold the steering wheel properly, you shouldn't have been given a license.

[xda2jojo]

Di lang ang TYT ang may probs, pati na ang Honda,

Honda, Japan's second-biggest carmaker after crisis-hit Toyota, Wednesday recalled more than 400,000 vehicles to fix airbags that it said can explode and spray out potentially deadly metal shards.


Anong brand na naman kaya ang susunod?

[Monseratto]

Another conspiracy theory...

Governors defend Toyota, cite federal 'conflict of interest'

Govs. Steve Beshear of Kentucky and Mitch Daniels of Indiana have jumped to the defense of Toyota, a major employer in both states, in light of looming congressional investigations into recent safety problems in some vehicles.

The Japanese automaker has recalled nearly 8.5 million vehicles around the globe since November for problems that include floor mats that can entangle gas pedals and pedals that can stick, causing sudden acceleration. The recalls have drawn interest in Congress.

The governors say Toyota is being treated unfairly by the U.S. government, which they say in the letter has “an obvious conflict of interest because of its huge financial stake in some of Toyota's competitors,” a reference to the ownership stakes through bailouts of Chrysler and General Motors last year.

Treasury Department has rescued General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group with $65 billion in bailouts, the Obama administration can't be fair in handling Toyota's safety issues. The U.S. government owns 61 percent of GM and 10 percent of Chrysler.

Beshear said in a telephone interview, “That puts a little extra pressure on the government to be fair in … looking at a company that's one of their competitors.”

He said recalls are common, but the reaction to the three Toyota recalls since November is not.

Daniels, speaking to reporters at a chamber of commerce meeting Wednesday in Jeffersonville, said, “It looks kind of fishy when the federal government has gone into the car business” and is investigating its competitors in that industry.

Daniels said the government is treating Toyota more harshly than it has treated other automakers.
A Transportation Department spokeswoman said Wednesday in reply to the governors' concerns that safety is the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's “singular priority.”

http://www.courier-journal.com/artic...407/1008/rss01

[tidus1203]

Toyota actually tried to hide defects as far back as 2003??

Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Former regulators hired by Toyota Motor Corp. helped end at least four U.S. investigations of unintended acceleration by company vehicles in the last decade, warding off possible recalls, court and government records show.
Christopher Tinto, vice president of regulatory affairs in Toyota’s Washington office, and Christopher Santucci, who works for Tinto, helped persuade the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to end probes including those of 2002-2003 Toyota Camrys and Solaras, court documents show. Both men joined Toyota directly from NHTSA, Tinto in 1994 and Santucci in 2003.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=ajWwH9o__irY


Doing a Mitsubishi eh?

[xda2jojo]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Despite a ******* of high-profile recalls that have tarnished Toyota's once stellar reputation, a study published Wednesday reveals that the automaker actually gets fewer customer complaints per car than the majority of its competitors.

Edmunds.com reviewed more than 200,000 complaints filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) over the last decade and found that Toyota ranked 17th among the top 20 automakers in the overall number of complaints per vehicle sold.

The results come amid a series of recalls totaling more than 8.1 million Toyotas worldwide, including 400,000 of the popular 2010 Prius hybrid for problems associated with sticking brake pedals, software glitches and faulty floormats.

The study was based on the percentage of complaints each automaker received versus the total number of vehicles they sold in the United States between 2001 and 2010.

As a result, British carmaker Land Rover had the highest proportion of complaints relative to the number of cars it sold. The company received 0.6% of the total complaints in the database, while its sales amounted to only 0.1% of all new cars sold in the United States.

Meanwhile, Toyota had 9.1% of all the complaints in the database. But the company was number 17 on the list because its sales made up 13.5% of the U.S. market.

According to the study, Toyota had fewer complaints than its American rivals. Ford was number 10 on the list, while General Motors came in at number 11.

The only automakers to receive fewer complaints than Toyota were Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and the Mercedes-made Smart Car.

Among the other automakers that ranked high on the list were Suzuki and Isuzu, which came in at numbers 2 and 3 respectively. German automaker Volkswagen came in at number 4.

The complaints lodged against Toyota ranged from minor problems with lighting to more serious issues such as sudden acceleration and difficulty steering. But the study did not rate the reported incidences for severity.

Edmunds.com said that it found some unreliable reports in the database, including one complaint indicating that 99 people had died in one vehicle as a result of an accident. It also said that about 10% of the complaints appeared to be duplicates.

Quality control: Not just Toyota's problem

While the issues raised by Toyota's recent recalls shouldn't be overlooked, quality control concerns are apparent across the entire automobile industry, said Jeremy Anwyl, Edmunds.com chief executive.

"A broader view shows that consumer complaints reflect an industry issue, not just a Toyota issue," said Anwyl. "It is no longer an option for car companies to dismiss consumer complaints, even if the event is difficult to replicate or diagnose."

Some automakers assume that customer complaints are the result of driver error and not necessarily a reflection of design problems, said Jeannine Fallon, an Edmunds.com analyst.

"It depends on the culture of the car company," she said. "But it's clear now that Toyota has not had very many conversations with NHTSA."

Link: http://autos.yahoo.com/articles/auto...-about-toyota/