05 camry - two problems

First, bear in mind, i'm writing this for a friend, so its not my car., just trying to help her out

She has a silver )5 camry, bought in late november at the earliest.

1) in an area around the passenger headlight (for the US)a line of point has come off, with assorted spots of rust there. Is this repearable under the warentee? I have a picture that i will try and upload, but the line starts at the leading edge, and goes along the pannel, parellel to the edge of the headlight above it, with rust visable only on the trailing edge of the section, and not near the sharp-edged end where i would expect rust to accumulate first. note as well, this is Georgia, where there has maybe been 5 rainy days since the car was bought.

Second, and more important, The airbags are disabled, and have been since she bought the car. Both the red dash light and the orange indicator at the top center of the dash says the airbags are disabled. the car has been back to the dealership twice, for oilchanges (its now got 13k miles on it) and the dealers say they are mystified.

If anyone could throw some light on these, it would be appreciated. As it is, she's beginning to regret getting this in place of her 85 deville that she's had for the last 15 years.

K`Tetch

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K`Tetch
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Here is the secret for de-mysterfying car dealer service departments. Look in the back the one of the manuals which come with the new car and find the lemon law for your state. In most states it says something that a dealer gets 4 chances to fix the same problem in the car but the procedures do vary. Bring the car back those many times and then enter arbitration which is also tells how to do in the manual and ask for a new car. Usually the arbitrator will agree or give the manufacturer one more shot to let the dealer repair it. If he fails again you get your new car.

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Art

She'd never bought a new car before, i've never bought a car newer than 89 myself (because they're too flimsey nowadays) so i've never had to deal with warentees either. Besidse which, i'm british, and i've had a lot of bad experiance with toyota UK (including a lawsuit thats now gone on for 4 years, and has already cost 3 executives at toyota their jobs)

Griffin area, i think. not sure though where exactly she went.

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K`Tetch

Contact Toyota, log a complaint, demand a rep looks into a fix. Ask for a free loaner. Was the car Flooded? . Remove some carpet to look for rust in the floor and trunk, any sign of water get rid of it. Flooded cars are sold and will never be right .

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m Ransley

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