A snapped steering rod on a moving vehicle can mean instant death. Should Toyota be fined again? There were 16 crashes and 3 deaths. Here is the most recent link for steering link failures on Toyotas. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Toyota-waited-months-to-issue-apf-3957379630.html?x=0
Sounds like 12pleze must have been taken to the laundry by Toyota too!
Pay no attention to the Toyota Robotic Scull. He hates American cars and chants Toyota, Toyota, Toyota, over and over before sleep each night,
What is your opinion, now that additional facts have presented themselves, of the whole Toyota phantom acceleration thing? Basically there are three parties I see.
1) Toyota never had any problems 100% drivers fault every time.
2) Toyota was trying the fix some problems that existed, but didn’t move quickly enough.
3) Toyota knowingly concealed a very dangerous problem with their acceleration pedals that resulted in over 30 deaths.
So I heard about the recall this morning. I own a 09 corolla so it was obviously a concern for me, so I called the dealer right away. They said that because their is not solution for the problem yet, they’re not actually recalling any vehicles, unless there is a suspicion of a sticky gas pedal.
So basically you have to crash or die before they’ll take your car in. Thats crap!
They should recall the vehicles and supply the owners with rentals untill they can get their high paid engineers to figure out a solution.
For those of you who dont know, there’s already been aprox 20 reported deaths and over 1000 crashes related to this problem with the cars.
Carquestions digs into the complaints at NHTSA to find out some details on the 89 deaths reported this week. It doesn’t take long to find some bogus ones, in fact the first one shows the car to be a 2000 Camry on the Police report but NHTSA lists it as a 2002. Big difference since one has a computer controlled gas pedal and the older one has an old style cable. Who do you believe? NHTSA or the Police?
The toyota recall was released after the acclerator became stuck on many models causing 5 deaths. Now I know that you can turn a car off that is still in gear, is there something I’m missing or were these people just too freaked out to think about that?
