Toyota Recall - Accelerator Pedal may get stuck [merged]

[niky]

It has been announced!!!!
TOYOTA is in big trouble!!!!!

http://www.burlappcars.com/2010/02/m...om-toyota.html

This video shows how the sudden acceleration problem can actually be reproduced.
And, unlike what Toyota has been claiming all along, it IS a software problem.
Even worse, the onboard computer cannot "see" it.
So if you go to your dealer, it'll say your car is fine and that nothing ever happened.


Which is what people have been experiencing.


I just wonder how far this will go for Toyota. Sales are down, reputation that took decades to build is getting worse every day.

Yeah, he reproduced the symptoms, but he hasn't said how much he's had to do to reproduce them.

He intentionally short-circuited the car, and used soldered wires and resistor to make a very specific connection between the two accelerator wires. The problem with this is that the resistor makes the ECU see a very specific voltage, which might be impossible to recreate as a failure mode, since short-circuits often create low or high voltage readings from sensors, as well as intermittent and erratic signals, which is what triggers the engine light.

It's like saying he can make an iron catch fire by shorting out the wires leading to the thermostat. Duh. Obviously. The question is, is it realistic to assume that you can get an iron to fail in the same way naturally? Are the wires he's shorting out wires that actually move around and can possibly fray? Or are they relatively far apart? When they short out, will they maintain continuous contact long enough to weld to each other?

Until he releases the schematics and details of how he created this "short", it doesn't mean anything. At least, not yet.