Toyota to Fix 600,000 Siennas; Not a Recall
10-25-07, 01:07 PM
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Warranty enhancement...kind of reminds me of a fish restaurant telling me their fish are freshly frozen (I have heard this more than once in different restaurants).
Warranty enhancement also kind of reminds me of all the little things I do every weekend with my RX300 here and there to keep my little RX maintained out of warranty. I can just imagine my uncle asking me, "Oye Ron, que estas haciendo?" "Tio, un warranty enhancement?" and my uncle replies, "un que????"
Or perhaps warranty enhancement means putting like gold leafing around the warranty document itself. I can imagine walking into a Lexus dealer and asking them, "can you spruce up my warranty, enhance it a bit" and they reply "sure we can put in a frame around it like your college diploma and even have some lights nearby to shine on it like a work of art...there now...your warranty is enhanced...that make you feel better?" and I reply "oh god yes...I don't know what I would have done without my warranty enhancement"
Sorry...it's been a dull morning for me.
Warranty enhancement also kind of reminds me of all the little things I do every weekend with my RX300 here and there to keep my little RX maintained out of warranty. I can just imagine my uncle asking me, "Oye Ron, que estas haciendo?" "Tio, un warranty enhancement?" and my uncle replies, "un que????"
Or perhaps warranty enhancement means putting like gold leafing around the warranty document itself. I can imagine walking into a Lexus dealer and asking them, "can you spruce up my warranty, enhance it a bit" and they reply "sure we can put in a frame around it like your college diploma and even have some lights nearby to shine on it like a work of art...there now...your warranty is enhanced...that make you feel better?" and I reply "oh god yes...I don't know what I would have done without my warranty enhancement"
Sorry...it's been a dull morning for me.
Its been Very Reliable so far, nothing has gone wrong. I Guess he'll have to go in for a warranty check soon.
10-25-07, 07:20 PM
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My wife had a 1991 Celica - there was a recall or TSB on the air conditioner. They added a lubricant to the freon to avoid a compressor failure. Still, hers failed ... at 112K!
Toyota paid the entire bill - said their "fix" was obviously not good enough. I know of no other mfg that would do that - and this was probably back in 1997 or so....
So I'm betting they have always done this - but probably did not make a big deal out of it. The question is, did they do this Sienna campaign for PR purposes or is the Internet so powerful that you can't hide anything these days?
10-25-07, 09:01 PM
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Anyway "warranty enhancement" sounds like "revenue enhancement" a phrase the government uses for raising taxes.
10-26-07, 01:32 AM
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10-26-07, 01:58 AM
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I wonder if any Siennas are included in the 470,000 that had recalls, posted on here a little while ago. If it, and these are totally independent of each other that brings the total in the past few months to 1,070,000?!?! Crap and my g/f just bought an IS350! haha
Wow I just looked for the old post myself and it looks like those recalls in Japan were for different vehicles. So it really is 1,070,000 vehicles in the past month it seems... wow...
Wow I just looked for the old post myself and it looks like those recalls in Japan were for different vehicles. So it really is 1,070,000 vehicles in the past month it seems... wow...
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10-26-07, 10:27 AM
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10-26-07, 01:17 PM
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I wonder if any Siennas are included in the 470,000 that had recalls, posted on here a little while ago. If it, and these are totally independent of each other that brings the total in the past few months to 1,070,000?!?! Crap and my g/f just bought an IS350! haha
Wow I just looked for the old post myself and it looks like those recalls in Japan were for different vehicles. So it really is 1,070,000 vehicles in the past month it seems... wow...
Wow I just looked for the old post myself and it looks like those recalls in Japan were for different vehicles. So it really is 1,070,000 vehicles in the past month it seems... wow...
10-26-07, 02:40 PM
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yup. Apparantly when you sell a lot of cars, you get hammered by the numbers once you issue a recall. One thing with recalls though... when you have a company like Toyota, you know they're going to be sharing parts with other cars. If one problem is found in one model, there is a good chance the same problem might be in another model.