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More owners of Toyota vehicles say recall repairs aren't working

Friday, 12 March 2010 23:25 administrator

More than 60 drivers have complained of sudden acceleration incidents despite the fact that their cars were repaired by Toyota Motor Corp. in the current recalls, new data released Thursday show.

The latest figure, released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, significantly increases the total number of complaints involving repaired vehicles, which was less than 10 on Tuesday. The new complaints allege several accidents and at least three injuries resulting from runaway unintended acceleration despite the vehicles' undergoing a series of modifications at Toyota dealerships designed to resolve the issue.

Runaway Prius driver: 'I was laying on the brakes but it wasn't slowing down'

Tuesday, 09 March 2010 22:33 administrator

Reporting from El Cajon and Los Angeles - James Sikes bought his Toyota Prius in 2008 and 53,000 miles later the car was driving fine. But on Monday afternoon, when he accelerated to pass another vehicle on Interstate 8 east of San Diego, the car kept going.

"The gas pedal stuck open all the way," said Sikes, 61, a real estate agent from San Diego.

For 30 miles, Sikes said, he swerved in and out of traffic, narrowly missing a big rig and trying desperately to slow the vehicle down, at one point reaching down with his hand to pull back on the gas pedal. The brakes were useless.

"I was laying on the brakes," Sikes said, "but it wasn't slowing down."

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Toyota investigates Corolla steering problems

Saturday, 27 February 2010 06:18 administrator

WASHINGTON – First it was gas pedals, then brakes. Now Toyota and the government are looking into complaints that the popular Corolla is difficult to steer straight, raising a new safety concern ahead of next week's congressional hearing about the automakers recalls.

But how worried should drivers be? Or is this an example of how any problem at the Japanese company now gets intense scrutiny?

The executive in charge of quality control said the company is reviewing fewer than 100 complaints about power steering in the Corolla. Toyota sold nearly 1.3 million Corollas worldwide last year, including nearly 300,000 in the United States, where it trailed only Camry as Toyota's most popular model.

Toyota recall hits S'pore

Wednesday, 03 March 2010 04:16 administrator

MORE than 5,000 cars in Singapore could be affected by Toyota Motor's latest recall of close to 1.6 million vehicles worldwide.The exercise, following a string of similar ones in recent months, is to fix faulty engine oil hoses that could develop pinhole leaks with age.If left unattended, the leaks could worsen and lead to engine damage.About 1.3 million of the affected vehicles are in North America, with the rest in 90 other countries, including Japan. The cars were manufactured between 2005 and last year.

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Presentation shows Toyota knew of tougher regulations

Friday, 26 February 2010 03:45 administrator

WASHINGTON – Toyota’s Washington executives warned new U.S. chief Yoshimi Inaba last summer that federal regulators were getting tougher on vehicle recalls, and said the $3-billion cash-for-clunkers plan was a “conquest bill for Toyota.”

In the same presentation given to congressional committees where Toyota’s staff said limiting a 2007 recall of floor mats was a $100-million “win” for the company, the staff warned Inaba that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration had new powers to force recalls, including civil fines.

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