Toyota Pretense

Toyota is recalling vehicles that have been on the road 10 years.

Will owners of Prius have to wait that long before Toyota fixes the BRAKES?

How many people will die before Toyota corrects the problem?

[The brake pedal of my Prius C traveled to the floor and was demonstrated repeatedly to a Route 44 Technician sitting in the passenger seat.]

Corolla, Lexus models recalled

January 31, 2013

 

Toyota Motor Corp. has announced recalls of 1 million vehicles, including some models of its Toyota Corolla and its Lexus IS sports sedan.

 

About 752,000 Corolla and Corolla Matrix cars are being recalled to fix an airbag control module that is susceptible to short-circuiting that could eventually cause the front airbags and seat belt pretensioners to deploy when they shouldn't.

 

The recall affects Corollas from the 2003 and 2004 model years. There have been two reported accidents and 18 injuries linked to the problem, said Brian Lyons, a Toyota spokesman.

 

For years, the Corolla has played a key role in Toyota's sales success in the United States. It was the second-best-selling compact car nationally last year with sales of 291,000 vehicles, second only to the Honda Civic, which sold about 318,000.

 

Toyota also said it will recall 270,000 IS sport sedans sold by its luxury Lexus division because a nut on the front windshield wiper arms could be insufficiently tight. If movement of the wipers is restricted by an external load, such as a buildup of snow on the windshield, one or both of the wipers could stop working.

 

The recall includes vehicles from the 2006 model year through the beginning of the 2013 model year.

 

There have been 25 reports of wipers not functioning correctly, but no reports of accidents as a result.

 

 

LOS ANGELES TIMES

 

 

http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130131/BIZ/301310323/-1/NEWSLETTER100

CALL Subject : Airbag Inadvertent Deployment
Report Receipt Date: JAN 30, 2013
NHTSA Campaign Number: 13V029000
Component(s): AIR BAGS
Potential Number of Units Affected: 887,709

All Products Associated with this Recall

Vehicle Make - Model - Model Year(s)

• PONTIACVIBE2003-2004
• TOYOTACOROLLA2003-2004
• TOYOTACOROLLA MATRIX2003-2004

Details

2 Associated Documents

Manufacturer: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing

SUMMARY:

Toyota is recalling certain model year 2003-2004 Corolla and Corolla Matrix vehicles and 2003-2004 Pontiac Vibe vehicles. The supplemental restraint system (SRS) circuits are susceptible to internal shorting. The electrical short may create an abnormal current flow and increased heat which can damage the circuits. This could result in an inadvertent deployment of the front airbags and/or seat belt pretensioners.

CONSEQUENCE:

Inadvertent deployment of the airbags or the seat belt pretensioners may increase the risk of injury and the possibility of a vehicle crash.

REMEDY:

Toyota will notify their owners, and General Motors will notify theirs. Dealers will install a supplemental harness containing an electrical filter between the airbag control module and its wire harness, free of charge. A notification schedule has not been provided. For more information, Toyota owners may call 1-800-331-4331 and Pontiac owners may call 1-800-620-7668.

NOTES:

Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.

 

NHTSA link for recalls & defects:

http://www.nhtsa.gov/Vehicle+Safety/Recalls+&+Defects