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

According to Automotive News, at this point Toyota does not have a clue as to the cause. At first engineers believed it was caused by certain types of floor mats. That led to a recall and an advisory to dealers to cut off a part of the bottom of the accelerator, until new shorter ones could be made available.

Turns out the accelerator petal was NOT the problem and engineers suspected that it was the linkage itself, because Toyota with cut off accelerator petals were running away.

However after over a dozen deaths it soon became apparent it was NOT the linkage either, because vehicles with fly by wire throttle controls were running away as well.

Most other manufactures have an override that disables the electronic throttle when the brakes are applied, but Toyota does not. That does not take into account the fact that manual linkages on older vehicles are also having the problem.

The fact that both manual and fly by wire systems are going out of control is perplexing, thus the stop selling order, as engineers scramble for the cause.

If Toyota dealers can't sell, Toyota must stop manufacturing and importing vehicles or they will end up in the position they were at the end of 2009 with hundreds of thousands of unsold vehicles still in plant storage lots and at ports of entry.

When Toyota shut down the Tundra plant for three months, because of its dismal sales, it still paid the workers at the Texas plant. Toyota had no comment on whether they would pay it workers around the world during this massive shut down. Stay tuned!

"Toyota Motor Corp. said today it would halt production at five North > American plants and order dealers to stop selling eight models > recalled last week over concerns with sticking accelerator pedals." > > From The Detroit News: >

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