Toyotas bungle..., and they keep piling on?! Options

[easternpiro1]

I may be wrong but i havent seen any threads about toyota's collosal $h!t storm thats raining on their heads right now.... does anybody have the inside track as to whats going on? i know what the news says, but theyre often full of it...

I personally thing that the US is going at toyota EXTREMELY hard for their first major flaw in AGES... could this be to weaken toyota while bolstering ford and GM?! SURE SEEMS LIKE IT!


hyprocrites... after all the damn recalls that american cars have REPEATEDLY?!?! pisses me off!

also... i got a letter from toyota about my gas pedal lmao! ITS A CELICA!!

[Hanyo]

Basically it boils down to two problems that toyota is doing a recall for.

1) bad floor mats causing gas pedals to jam on
2) bad gas pedals causing the gas pedal to jam on
3) bad ecu programing causing the throttle to stay open even when the brakes are applied. (infinity and other car makers cut off the throttle when you hit the brakes)
4) toyota denying the problem existed until it was too late, and the fix was slow to come out and some people have doubts that the fix will work. Causing a huge public relations problem.
5) The press made an over the top claim telling people not to drive their cars until toyota had the problem fixed. scaring the **** out of everyone.
6) They traced toyota's records and found out the unwanted acceleration back to 2000 built toyotas, right when toyota started using drive by wire technology.


That is what i have gotten from the news and my own research, more stuff would have came up recently that I am unaware of.

But seriously, stuck gas pedals is something everyone has to deal with. Its not a brand new phenomenon.

This post has been edited by Hanyo: Mar 2, 2010 - 6:24 AM