Troubles persisting even with fixed Toyotas
by Zuzana Zelenakova
Toyota drivers report they are still experiencing problems with their cars even after these were fixed. In past two weeks, the amount of the post-repair complaints of sudden acceleration has reached over 100. Drivers can submit their complaints to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The Japanese automaker that was forced to recall more than 8 million vehicles worldwide blamed the acceleration problem on gas pedals that, according to them, were sticky and could become trapped under floor mats. Due to the continuing Toyota problems NHTSA has become a subject to quite a lot of criticism at congressional hearings. NHTSA has been dealing with the problem intense! ly contacting car owners who issued complaints. According to the official NHTSA statement from Wednesday the agency came upon "several instances in which a dealer made mistakes in applying one of the recall remedies." Toyota is therefore trying to make the instructions more clear. Many people who submitted complaints said the previous problems appeared just a few days after they got their cars repaired. "I went in for the recall and it seems there is a worse problem now," wrote the owner of Toyota Tundra from Florida. "I truly believe this is an electronic problem." Another Toyota owner, John Moscicki from Oregon reported that his car accelerated to 50mph before he was able to stop it by pulling the gas pedal manually with his right foot from floor-stuck position. "It just went to the floor like some other system had control of it," said Moscicki. The Toyota recall have resulted in several congressional hearings and damaged the company´s reputation with sales falling ! down. Number of lawsuits was filed against Toyota. "It's reall! y an eng ineering judgment call," said Diane Steed, who served as NHTSA administrator when President Reagan was holding office. "The real challenge is not so much the numbers but digging to get to the bottom of what is the problem."
related story (sgx16805): http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100318/ap_on_bi_ge/us_toyota_no...
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1 Comments:
Toyota and others knew they were having issues and attempted to hide it. All Car Companies should have came forward with a full disclosures of what car were dangerous. Instead of waiting for a huge media blitz and tons of public pressure. I never seen so many car companies GM - NISSAN - TOYOTA - HYUNDAI having recalls all at the same time. I had no idea my car was affected until I looked on http://www.carpedalrecall.com and found I had a bad Anti Lock control unit on my 2008 Pontiac G8 , my co workers Ford Truck had a recall also. So be careful
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