Re: Toyota's massive recall woes halt production, ding top quality rep

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>>You mean like cutting off the bottom of the accelerator? > >Temporary attempt to fix an unproven problem - better than doing >nothing, IF it had been the problem. > >To this point in time there is NO PROOF the throttles are sticking. >Much less any idea WHY or WHERE they are sticking. > >Yes, some cars have "run away" and some people have been killed - but >no vehicle has had the throttle stick under controlled conditions or >in the hands of a technician who can then determine what went wrong. >

Nonsense. They just aired a story of a guy whose Toyota did the "runaway" thing several times. The last time it did it he called the Toyota dealer and said he was bringing it in and he did (by shifting it in and out of gear as needed) and left it running for the tech to look at. The tech verified that the throttle pedal was not stuck on anything or sticking but the engine was racing and would not stop till they shut the car off. Toyota KNOWS this is a REAL problem, not some confusion on the customers part, or they would not have stopped selling cars.

VERY perplexing for the engineers, for sure. >> >>>> >>>> Gm would do well to learn from this. Burning Fieros, CV joints wleded to >>>> make a FWD engine a RWD engine, etc. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> Mercedes did the same thing a few years ago with that ugly A class >>> a few years ago. They stopped sales and stopped all manufacture until >>> they got the engineering problem fixed. A lot better move, imo, than >>> the bandaid approach. >>
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