| Apr 29 |
Toyota’s Troubles: Now it’s a Tundra recall
Toyota Motor Sales USA estimates that 0.5 percent of its 2011 Tundras have the defect. The company is recalling 51,000 models. Owners can expect a recall letter in the mail in the next several weeks. In the last year, the company has had to recall 14 million Toyotas to fix defects. Some were deadly. Faulty floor mats and sticky gas pedals are blamed for fatal accidents caused by cars that accelerated suddenly, reaching high rates of speed as they careened off the road with disastrous results. Another Toyota recall involved a glitch in braking software. Toyota is facing dozens of lawsuits in the United States filed on behalf of victims who were injured or killed in its vehicles. |
Attention owners of Toyota 2011 Tundras: Some of the trucks have a potentially dangerous glitch. These 2011 Tundras have a rear drive shaft that can break .
| Oct 22 |
Toyota recalls over brakes, accelerator failures may mandate defective products lawsuits
At this rate, Toyota will be recalling more cars than it continues to sell. It seems like whenever Toyota recalls cars over safety concerns, a slew of new Toyota TV ads run, urging people to buy the cars despite all the bad news. And people keep on buying, perhaps expecting a better deal due to the bad publicity and perhaps guessing the odds are in their favor. |
After Toyota recalled almost 10 million cars in recent months, you’d think that would have about covered the Japan-based automaker’s | Feb 23 |
Toyota stuck accelerator blame may extend to ‘EMI’
In theory, EMI can be caused internally by components of a car’s own systems, or via cell phones or airport radar. EMI essentially disrupts or alters the electronic commands that a car should be receiving from its internal systems in order to brake, accelerate or perform other driving tasks. |
In the SOS over Toyota stuck accelerators causing death to innocent Americans, a new element is entering the sad and disturbing picture: EMI. That stands for electromagnetic interference, which is what some say is causing the fatal bursts of sustained acceleration.| Feb 22 |
Toyota document savors money saving at expense of stuck accelerator safety
That limited recall may have saved Toyota millions at the time, but Toyota’s failure to address the problem fully led to more stuck accelerator car crash accidents and what’s now become the largest recall in its history: more than 8 million vehicles. The month after the Toyota executive boasted about saving money on the limited recall, a family of four riding in a Lexus in California was killed when its gas pedal stuck to a floor mat. It wasn’t until November of 2009 that Toyota issued a full recall to fix the gas pedals of its defective products. |
The negligence of Toyota toward innocent American consumers seems to know no end. The latest sign of Toyota putting profits over public safety is found in an internal Toyota document from July 6, 2009, in which a company executive bragged that it was saving $100 million by negotiating a limited recall for Lexus ES and Toyota Camry vehicles for accelerator malfunctions.| Feb 04 |
Toyota stuck accelerator followed by Prius bad brakes defect
The U.S. Department of Transportation has begun investigating flaws in the 2010 Prius’ brakes, after its safety arm, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, fielded 124 complaints from consumers. Four of those complaints concerned brake-related accidents in the Japanese automaker’s hybrids. It seems some Prius brakes fail to function properly when the vehicle travels over potholes, bumpy roads or surfaces which are slippery or uneven. That’s not good, especially when you consider how common such surfaces are on streets and highways. On them, a Prius’ braking might pause when the car shifts from its traditional hydraulic brakes to an electronic braking system. |
Will Toyota’s defective product failures ever stop? First it was