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Re: TRUCK RECALL?!?!?!?

I think I heard they're recalling Toyota trucks because the front

> propellor shaft can separate (probably at the U-joint...) > > Oh, boy...

Here's the lowdown. Take a look at who discovered the problem...

By now, we?ve lost count of how many vehicles Toyota has recalled (it?s somewhere north of 8.1 million vehicles). According to a Toyota spokesman, the Japanese automaker is also voluntarily recalling approximately 8,000 four-wheel-drive Tacoma pickups to fix a problem in the front propeller shaft.

Toyota says that a crack can develop in the rear joint of the Tacoma leading to the driveshaft separating and falling away from the truck.

The issue was discovered by Dana Corporation during the manufacturing process of the front prop shaft.

The recall affects Tacoma models that were produced from mid-December 2009 to early Feb. 2010.

DANA!!! Can you say, "Rusting frames"?

If I were Toyota' I think I'd consider dropping Dana from the list of preferred suppliers.

Reply to
Hachiroku
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hopefully toyota will have learned their lesson - don't trust domestic suppliers.

actually, two lessons: make sure your competition doesn't spend more on political donations than you do!

Reply to
jim beam

I thought CTS was going to be under close scrutiny, but I think Dana is toast! This is not as major a recall as the frames; the first round was

1996 or 97 to 2003, huundreds of thousands of trucks Toyota bought back for 150% of Kelley Blue Book, but a lot of them promptly bought a new Tacoma...

Only to find out a year or two later it ALSO had a Dana frame that could rot prematurely!

This recall 'only' affects 8,000 vehicles, but I bet the guys at Dana are sweating bullets...

Yeah, that too. I particularly liked the ads Chevrolet dealers were running that said, We'll give you $1,000 more than book value!

Sure! Why the hell not? It's *OUR* money!!!

Reply to
Hachiroku

Toyota , on its way to 10,000,000 recalls, Toyota hires retired-former NHTSA employees, they help squash many investigations that would have led to RECALLS. Toyota knew about accererator issues in 2003, just wait this might top 20,000,000 , Twenty Million, is its over?. And you lamely blame Dana on a few, now thats Lame. Toyotas whole modus has been "dont tell" anybody. They should hit toy with a Ten Billion dollar fine.

Reply to
ransley

Dana makes frames for lots of companies. Why does it seem only the Toyota frames are so bad there are recalls for them?

Google the following:

  • rusting Toyota frame recall - 3,420,000 hits
  • rusting Ford frame recall - 478,000 hits, and most were actually talking about the Toyota rusting frames
  • rusting Chevrolet frame recall - 1,840,00 hits, and again most of them were actually talking about Rusting Toyota frames

Try it for yourself...

Given the fact that Ford and Chevrolet have each sold more than 10 times as many trucks as Toyota, don't you think if they had the same sort of problem with rusting frames, there be more complaints about them on the internet?

You guys need to quit drinking the Toyota kool-aid. They have repeatedly shown disregard for there Customer and have to be dragged kicking and screaming into doing the right thing.

Ed

Reply to
C. E. White

That was for the drive shaft. I thought Mike was talking about the rusting frames.

Ed

Reply to
C. E. White

Then why is it only US made trucks?

Read the release: Dana found an error in the manufacturing process.

Reply to
Hachiroku

frod just buries their mistakes. literally.

Reply to
jim beam

OK, so let's say Ford is horrible. Does this excuse Toyota for being worse? For years some people have been sold the idea that Toyotas had exceptional quality. I never believed it (but I don't think Toyotas are particularly bad either). Now, when it has become apparent that Toyota has problems just like every other manufacturer, some people try to defend Toyota by pointing out that other manufacturers have had recalls also. So what? How this make Toyota look good? Throwing mud at Ford or GM isn't going to fix one Toyota. Pretending that Toyota doesn't have problems is encouraging Toyota executives to continue there past deceitful practices.

Ed

Reply to
C. E. White

Because only the Toyota frames were built to Toyota's specifications. Which were obviously inadequate.

The Tundra is deader than 1980's thanksgiving turkey. Stick a fork in it.

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Steve

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