Toyota recalls and related issues: BusinessWeek-Media owes Toyota an apology
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NEW YORK — Toyota recalled 1.33 million Corolla sedans and Matrix hatchbacks in the U.S. and Canada Thursday because their engines may stall, the latest in a string of quality problems at the Japanese automaker.
The recall covers vehicles from the 2005-2008 model years sold in the U.S. and Canada. Three accidents and one minor injury have been reported, though Toyota said a link to the engine issue has not been confirmed.
Toyota's latest recall is one of its largest since it began recalling cars and trucks last October. The automaker has now recalled more than 10 million vehicles worldwide for problems that run from faulty gas pedals and floor mats that can trap accelerators, to problems with its Prius hybrid.
Toyota said Corollas and Matrixes equipped with 1ZZ-FE engines may contain a defective engine control module, the computer that regulates the performance of the engine. In some cases, a crack may develop on the module's circuit board, which could prevent the engine from starting or could cause harsh shifting or an engine stall.
Separately, General Motors Co. is recalling 200,000 Pontiac Vibes in North America due to the same problem, GM spokesman Alan Adler said. The Vibe is similar to the Matrix and was built under a joint venture between Toyota and GM at a now-closed factory in Fremont, Calif.
Both automakers said they will replace the engine control modules on the recalled vehicles at no charge. The companies will begin mailing notifications to owners of the affected vehicles in mid-September.
The engine control module with the possible defect was manufactured by Delphi Corp., a large auto parts supplier headquartered in Troy, Mich., according to documents filed with federal regulators.
The automaker has been more aggressive in its pace of recalls in recent months. Its last recall was in late July, when the automaker said it would fix half a million cars, mostly Toyota Avalon sedans, over a steering issue.
U.S. regulators hit Toyota with a $16.4 million fine earlier this year for failing to promptly tell the government about its car defects. Toyota has been working to overhaul its quality controls and respond more aggressively to customer complaints in the fallout of its recall crisis.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has been investigating the possibility of engine stalling in the Corolla and Matrix models since late November. On Tuesday, the traffic safety agency said it had intensified its investigation.
NHTSA spokeswoman Olivia Alair said Thursday that the probe is ongoing. Toyota spokesman John Hanson said the automaker is cooperating with the safety agency on the probe. He said it was the automaker's decision to issue the recall, adding it was not pressured by NHTSA to do so.
U.S.-traded shares in Toyota Motor Corp. fell 34 cents to $68.72.
The recall covers vehicles from the 2005-2008 model years sold in the U.S. and Canada. Three accidents and one minor injury have been reported, though Toyota said a link to the engine issue has not been confirmed.
Toyota's latest recall is one of its largest since it began recalling cars and trucks last October. The automaker has now recalled more than 10 million vehicles worldwide for problems that run from faulty gas pedals and floor mats that can trap accelerators, to problems with its Prius hybrid.
Toyota said Corollas and Matrixes equipped with 1ZZ-FE engines may contain a defective engine control module, the computer that regulates the performance of the engine. In some cases, a crack may develop on the module's circuit board, which could prevent the engine from starting or could cause harsh shifting or an engine stall.
Separately, General Motors Co. is recalling 200,000 Pontiac Vibes in North America due to the same problem, GM spokesman Alan Adler said. The Vibe is similar to the Matrix and was built under a joint venture between Toyota and GM at a now-closed factory in Fremont, Calif.
Both automakers said they will replace the engine control modules on the recalled vehicles at no charge. The companies will begin mailing notifications to owners of the affected vehicles in mid-September.
The engine control module with the possible defect was manufactured by Delphi Corp., a large auto parts supplier headquartered in Troy, Mich., according to documents filed with federal regulators.
The automaker has been more aggressive in its pace of recalls in recent months. Its last recall was in late July, when the automaker said it would fix half a million cars, mostly Toyota Avalon sedans, over a steering issue.
U.S. regulators hit Toyota with a $16.4 million fine earlier this year for failing to promptly tell the government about its car defects. Toyota has been working to overhaul its quality controls and respond more aggressively to customer complaints in the fallout of its recall crisis.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has been investigating the possibility of engine stalling in the Corolla and Matrix models since late November. On Tuesday, the traffic safety agency said it had intensified its investigation.
NHTSA spokeswoman Olivia Alair said Thursday that the probe is ongoing. Toyota spokesman John Hanson said the automaker is cooperating with the safety agency on the probe. He said it was the automaker's decision to issue the recall, adding it was not pressured by NHTSA to do so.
U.S.-traded shares in Toyota Motor Corp. fell 34 cents to $68.72.
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Its funny to see so many people here breaking their necks to post anti-Toyota news when it was in vogue. Now that reports are coming out of no issues found they are not posting or even reading that news.
The media seems to not care that UA hasn't been found and its quite odd that claimed cases have fallen off the map.
Odd
Of course this didn't make news anywhere. The witch hunt is over, the damage is done. Odd no more runaway Toyota's all over the place right. Just a few months ago they were crashing all over the place.:P
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/toy...k=MW_news_stmp
Which backs up this previous find
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...081006204.html
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The media seems to not care that UA hasn't been found and its quite odd that claimed cases have fallen off the map.
Odd
Of course this didn't make news anywhere. The witch hunt is over, the damage is done. Odd no more runaway Toyota's all over the place right. Just a few months ago they were crashing all over the place.:P
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/toy...k=MW_news_stmp
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Drivers appear to be much less fearful of unintended acceleration these days, Toyota Motor Corp. said Monday in an update on its ramped-up safety efforts.
The Japanese auto maker, still working to recover from a rash of safety recalls, reported that the amount of customers voicing concern over acceleration problems has dropped 80% since April.
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“Toyota has made significant progress in recent months to help ensure that our customers can have complete confidence in the quality, safety and reliability of their vehicles, and our latest initiatives build on those accomplishments,” said Steve St. Angelo, Toyota’s chief quality officer.
He also pointed out that Toyota engineers, after examining 4,200 vehicles, were unable to find a single case in which an electronic throttle system glitch would lead to sudden unintended acceleration.
Overall, Toyota /quotes/comstock/13*!tm/quotes/nls/tm (TM 71.27, +0.08, +0.11%) said it has performed more than 5 million remedies for the three recalls announced in the past year, including 1.8 million to address sticky pedals, 3.1 million to take care of mats that could trap the pedal and about 128,000 to update the antilock-brake systems in certain 2010 Prius and Lexus models.
A Toyota employee works on an engine in Huntsville, Ala.
Toyota came under fire earlier this year and faced congressional lawmakers, after mounting recalls and failing to react promptly led to stinging criticism from U.S. regulators and a record fine of more that $16.4 million.
Consumers, long accustomed to Toyota’s track record for quality, have turned on the brand in the wake of the recalls. Sales have underperformed rivals, with Toyota’s market share dropping to 15.2% so far this year from 16.6% through September 2009.
“Toyota should really be doing better by now, but these lingering effects have been a challenge,” said Nationwide Chief Economist Paul Ballew, who’s a former sales analyst in the auto industry. “They are languishing worse than we’d thought.”
Shares of Toyota closed down 1.4% at $70.79 on Monday and have now lost 16% so far this year.
The Japanese auto maker, still working to recover from a rash of safety recalls, reported that the amount of customers voicing concern over acceleration problems has dropped 80% since April.
Is texting the biggest driving distraction?
A new report suggests that drivers are becoming more distracted by eating, reading or even playing with their animals, but the White House is disputing the numbers released by the Highway Loss Data Institute. Video courtesy of Fox News.
“Toyota has made significant progress in recent months to help ensure that our customers can have complete confidence in the quality, safety and reliability of their vehicles, and our latest initiatives build on those accomplishments,” said Steve St. Angelo, Toyota’s chief quality officer.
He also pointed out that Toyota engineers, after examining 4,200 vehicles, were unable to find a single case in which an electronic throttle system glitch would lead to sudden unintended acceleration.
Overall, Toyota /quotes/comstock/13*!tm/quotes/nls/tm (TM 71.27, +0.08, +0.11%) said it has performed more than 5 million remedies for the three recalls announced in the past year, including 1.8 million to address sticky pedals, 3.1 million to take care of mats that could trap the pedal and about 128,000 to update the antilock-brake systems in certain 2010 Prius and Lexus models.
A Toyota employee works on an engine in Huntsville, Ala.
Toyota came under fire earlier this year and faced congressional lawmakers, after mounting recalls and failing to react promptly led to stinging criticism from U.S. regulators and a record fine of more that $16.4 million.
Consumers, long accustomed to Toyota’s track record for quality, have turned on the brand in the wake of the recalls. Sales have underperformed rivals, with Toyota’s market share dropping to 15.2% so far this year from 16.6% through September 2009.
“Toyota should really be doing better by now, but these lingering effects have been a challenge,” said Nationwide Chief Economist Paul Ballew, who’s a former sales analyst in the auto industry. “They are languishing worse than we’d thought.”
Shares of Toyota closed down 1.4% at $70.79 on Monday and have now lost 16% so far this year.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...081006204.html
No electronic causes of Toyotas' sudden acceleration found so far
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well, typical reaction from a lot of people, they love the voice and tough to admit anything. we have fair share here on CL (both pro and anti toyota/lexus)
but i still say, the fact that toyota "admitted" problem (not saying if it's right or wrong), that put them in such a different position now
but i still say, the fact that toyota "admitted" problem (not saying if it's right or wrong), that put them in such a different position now
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Well if you look at it in a deeper sense, what Toyota really admitted to wasn't that they were to blame for the unintended acceleration issues. Rather, what Toyota actually admitted to were the issues within the company itself.
Toyota taking full blame for the unintended acceleration issues was symbolism for Toyota taking full responsibility for the problems within the company and vowing to change them.
This has definitely put the company in a much different situation. With Akio Toyoda as head of the company, Toyota is now going to be very strong and competitively tough with future models.
Toyota taking full blame for the unintended acceleration issues was symbolism for Toyota taking full responsibility for the problems within the company and vowing to change them.
This has definitely put the company in a much different situation. With Akio Toyoda as head of the company, Toyota is now going to be very strong and competitively tough with future models.
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people claiming unintended acceleration, then toyota admitted problems in gas pedal (potentially getting stuck) and also brake override software. no matter how you look at it, that only tells that toyota "admitted fault". doesn't put them in better position now (when results are out and that no problems found)
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Its funny to see so many people here breaking their necks to post anti-Toyota news when it was in vogue. Now that reports are coming out of no issues found they are not posting or even reading that news.
The media seems to not care that UA hasn't been found and its quite odd that claimed cases have fallen off the map.
Odd
Of course this didn't make news anywhere. The witch hunt is over, the damage is done. Odd no more runaway Toyota's all over the place right. Just a few months ago they were crashing all over the place.:P
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The media seems to not care that UA hasn't been found and its quite odd that claimed cases have fallen off the map.
Odd
Of course this didn't make news anywhere. The witch hunt is over, the damage is done. Odd no more runaway Toyota's all over the place right. Just a few months ago they were crashing all over the place.:P
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Having had a vintage '69 Corvette for years,I'm on the corvetteforum.com and the Toyota problems were better than sex to the GM fanboys.
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Other forum too.
Even on the bob is the oil guy forum's Automotive General Topics forum.The hate for Toyota is amazing.
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people claiming unintended acceleration, then toyota admitted problems in gas pedal (potentially getting stuck) and also brake override software. no matter how you look at it, that only tells that toyota "admitted fault". doesn't put them in better position now (when results are out and that no problems found)
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Toyota is facing a new lawsuit claiming a high-tech gadget on its luxury Lexus is deadly.
The car’s keyless ignition system has been blamed for causing the carbon monoxide poisoning death of a 79-year-old New York lawyer.
It has also been linked to the death of a 29-year-old woman in Palm Beach, Florida.
The lawsuit was filed over a tragedy that happened in February last year when Mary Rivera parked her Lexus in the ground floor garage of the home in Whitestone, Queens, she shared with lawyer Ernest Codella.
She accidentally left the car’s engine running, and the next morning worried relatives went to the house and found Rivera unconscious on the bedroom floor.
Her longtime companion was dead in bed and an autopsy showed his body with lethal levels of carbon monoxide.
Rivera, a former school superintendent and adjunct professor at Fordham University, lived but has trouble speaking and cannot walk.
The couple had only recently bought the car and because the engine was running so quietly, she may not have realised it was still on when she went into the house.
Lawyer Noah Kushlefsky filed the suit in Brooklyn Federal Court, accusing Toyota of failing to install a shut-off button on the cars that would turn off the engine if the car was unoccupied or untouched for a period of time.
‘This is a cool little bell-and-whistle to sell cars, but they have to address problems that have sprouted up,’ he told the New York Daily News.
‘It creates certain safety risks that did not exist with conventional key technology,’ he added.
Detectives in Palm Beach are also investigating whether the carbon monoxide poisoning of a woman motorist in August was caused by the keyless Lexus she had parked in her garage.
Kushlefsky said he has met with National Highway Traffic Safety Administration officials over the issue and a spokesman for the agency said it was aware of ‘some potential safety issues’ linked to the keyless system.
The world’s largest car maker has recalled more than 10 million vehicles over the past year, most notably for faulty pedals and floor mats that were blamed for trapping accelerators.
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Toyota is facing a new lawsuit claiming a high-tech gadget on its luxury Lexus is deadly.
The car’s keyless ignition system has been blamed for causing the carbon monoxide poisoning death of a 79-year-old New York lawyer.
It has also been linked to the death of a 29-year-old woman in Palm Beach, Florida.
The lawsuit was filed over a tragedy that happened in February last year when Mary Rivera parked her Lexus in the ground floor garage of the home in Whitestone, Queens, she shared with lawyer Ernest Codella.
She accidentally left the car’s engine running, and the next morning worried relatives went to the house and found Rivera unconscious on the bedroom floor.
Her longtime companion was dead in bed and an autopsy showed his body with lethal levels of carbon monoxide.
Rivera, a former school superintendent and adjunct professor at Fordham University, lived but has trouble speaking and cannot walk.
The couple had only recently bought the car and because the engine was running so quietly, she may not have realised it was still on when she went into the house.
Lawyer Noah Kushlefsky filed the suit in Brooklyn Federal Court, accusing Toyota of failing to install a shut-off button on the cars that would turn off the engine if the car was unoccupied or untouched for a period of time.
‘This is a cool little bell-and-whistle to sell cars, but they have to address problems that have sprouted up,’ he told the New York Daily News.
‘It creates certain safety risks that did not exist with conventional key technology,’ he added.
Detectives in Palm Beach are also investigating whether the carbon monoxide poisoning of a woman motorist in August was caused by the keyless Lexus she had parked in her garage.
Kushlefsky said he has met with National Highway Traffic Safety Administration officials over the issue and a spokesman for the agency said it was aware of ‘some potential safety issues’ linked to the keyless system.
The world’s largest car maker has recalled more than 10 million vehicles over the past year, most notably for faulty pedals and floor mats that were blamed for trapping accelerators.
Other manufacturers have keyless systems but Toyota will be in the news.
Another issue where people are at fault yet Toyota will be nailed to the cross.
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I thought that cars nowadays emit so little CO that this situation would be extremely unlikely.
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So apparently we need more electronic nannies in our cars so we can do even less, we are incapable of turning off our own cars!! Next headline: car crashes into tree; lawyer sues due to car not veering itself out of danger.
With all due respect to the victim, sorry for the loss. It is tragic, but why prolong it and file a lawsuit?
With all due respect to the victim, sorry for the loss. It is tragic, but why prolong it and file a lawsuit?
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So apparently we need more electronic nannies in our cars so we can do even less, we are incapable of turning off our own cars!! Next headline: car crashes into tree; lawyer sues due to car not veering itself out of danger.
With all due respect to the victim, sorry for the loss. It is tragic, but why prolong it and file a lawsuit?
With all due respect to the victim, sorry for the loss. It is tragic, but why prolong it and file a lawsuit?
What if I want to apply the brake and the gas at the same time? What if I want to leave the car running for a while (to keep the a/c or heat running)?
Before too long, they will limit top speed based on what road you are on (the cars will know), and even limit horsepower, as these things kill people too, obviously...
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filed the suit in Brooklyn Federal Court, accusing Toyota of failing to install a shut-off button on the cars that would turn off the engine if the car was unoccupied or untouched for a period of time.
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seriously, I need it b/c I'm too stupid to turn off my car if it's idling for too long after leaving both of my babies in the car after I go make a cup of coffee....
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