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!!

[tankd0g]

"Unintended acceleration" is one of the more popular complaints on the NHTSA site, it all kicked off for Toyota a few years ago when some guy in Texas ran his Tacoma through a store front and blamed the ghost in the machine. At the time, the F150 has many more unintended acceleration complaints on the site than the Tacoma, in spite of this the press manufactured an epidemic and Toyota initiated a huge floor mat recall. A few years later and we have a cop and his family in California killed in a loaner Lexus when the pedal sticks due to an incorrect length floor mat being installed. Toyota should have said, hang on right there, this **** isn't our fault, a dealer put a mat from an SUV in that car and that caused the crash.

Instead they recall floor mats in just about everything they make, for the second time. Fine, maybe the clips they were using were not up to snuff, it's worth noting however that no car I have owned from 1989 to 2001 even had any sort of clip to secure the floor mats and I'm still around to tell the tale. The Lexus in question does have one of those stupid push button starts, which should be abolished, but no one is talking about that. If you want a push button start like a race car, then you should have a push button kill switch like a race car.

So the US government now owns GM and suddenly there's a televised senate hearing where Toyota has to defend itself against complaints that GM has just as many of if not more. Coincidence? Farce is more like it. What does Toyota do? Caves in again and releases some sort of product update where they stick a wedge of scrap metal in your pedal to prevent a failure they know doesn't exist. Now the loonies are really coming out of the woodwork, I saw a prius driver in California on TV yesterday who claimed his pedal was stuck to the floor, as he lead police on a 90mph chase while taking to 911. Funny then, isn't it, that the pedal magically became unstuck when the police had him boxed in and he was able to stop without incident. The guy's interview was some of the worst acting I've seen come out of California since Leno claimed he had nothing to do with bumping Conan.

This post has been edited by tankd0g: Mar 11, 2010 - 7:46 PM