Toyota Facing a Major Recall
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Man this is the second Toyota recall i've heard, one effected us when we got the first year of the Sequoia. They had a recall on the brakes of the Sequoia because they were simply Tundra brakes but with all the more weight from the Sequoia they were inadequate for the SUV. 
Oh and we had to pay in full for their mistake like over $3000 or something like that.
Oh and we had to pay in full for their mistake like over $3000 or something like that.
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Unintended acceleration eh? Now where have I heard that before...
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I don't think it would be nearly as funny if it was anything other than floor mats.
Isn't there a thing called neutral that you can put your car into if the throttle sticks?
Anyway, I am actually kinda glad they found some sort of fault with Toyotas. I'm not too thrilled about them taking over the German and American market shares.
Isn't there a thing called neutral that you can put your car into if the throttle sticks?
Anyway, I am actually kinda glad they found some sort of fault with Toyotas. I'm not too thrilled about them taking over the German and American market shares.
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Because they recall anything, regardless of how silly it may seem.
Though, it seems to be more commonly user error casing these floor mat accidents. Still, Toyota will fix it, rest assured, making the Camry/ES/etc more idiot proof.
I was half expecting it to be Brad posting about 6 engines failing in random car and recall being "expected" or something. Instead, its the other Michigan guy, go figure!
Though, it seems to be more commonly user error casing these floor mat accidents. Still, Toyota will fix it, rest assured, making the Camry/ES/etc more idiot proof.
I was half expecting it to be Brad posting about 6 engines failing in random car and recall being "expected" or something. Instead, its the other Michigan guy, go figure!
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Shocking, you can accelerate in a Toyota?
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Man this is the second Toyota recall i've heard, one effected us when we got the first year of the Sequoia. They had a recall on the brakes of the Sequoia because they were simply Tundra brakes but with all the more weight from the Sequoia they were inadequate for the SUV.
If they had an actual recall, there is absolutely NO WAY you had to pay for it. That's what a recall is - an offer to fix a safety problem for free.
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You do realise the only reason I posted this is because I thought it was funny, and to make a point that people can b**** about anything and get it fixed for free. My floor mats in the Blazer used to make my foot slip all the time but you know what I did? Went to AutoZone and paid $35 for some better ones....no problems since then.
And it would have mattered what company it was that did this, I would still have posted it and still made fun of them for it, whether it was GM, BMW, or Toyota. It's a stupid recall no matter where the car maker is from.
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Wow, I heard about this before I was canned, and that was 3.5 months ago. There was warning of a potential recall, but no actual recall appeared. Never had a customer complain about too much acceleration before, although.
Seriously, no safety recall is actually funny.
Wait a minute: If a potential safety problem occured in my car, I'd bitch too, if nothing was being done about it. For every "recall" or "safety campaign", there's a solution. By definition, it means the company who sold the product is withdrawing the bad part(s) and replacing them for no charge. It's usually through their own internal testing and/or independent research that these problems surface, and they are repaired. Think for a minute about the cars that aren't repaired that have known issues, or issues that have yet to occur...
In any case, what are we talking about? 400,000 floormat sets (knowing Toyota, they only sell "sets") at $40 cost per set= $1,600,000. That's chump change to the Big T.
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Like Duke was saying, if you had to pay out of your pocket, it wasn't a recall.Man this is the second Toyota recall i've heard, one effected us when we got the first year of the Sequoia. They had a recall on the brakes of the Sequoia because they were simply Tundra brakes but with all the more weight from the Sequoia they were inadequate for the SUV.
How about Honda? I think most automakers sell those things only in sets.
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There are a lot of factors that go into why your foot slips on a floor mat, I mean if I were wearing my flip flops my foot would slide around quite a bit, but if I were wearing proper shoes I would have a problem. A lot of the times it's the consumers misuse of something that leads to it being unsafe, but since we live in a sue happy country it's probably cheaper for Toyota to just replace the mats instead of having some women wearing high heels have her foot slip on the floor mat when she shouldn't have been driving with the shoes on in the first place.
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You missed the fact that I was being completely sarcastic. Or at least, looking back at my post I just see sarcasm.
This whole thing is a product of consumer idiocy, as has been pointed out. And the "Fight Club" calculation that a6m5 pointed out is probably true, though not quite as extreme since Toyota wants to uphold an image more I would assume.
But people just expect to be able to use a car wearing anything, etc. They get in, zone out, and just kinda find their way around. I got strange looks when I say I need to get my driving shoes (for when I am doing sporty driving) or I say "I don't want to drive with my flip flops on, lemme get some real shoes on."
