Toyota suspends sales and production of several vehicles

Toyota has told its U.S. dealers to temporarily stop selling eight models with accelerators that may stick, the AP is reporting.

The company is also suspending production of the models for one week, beginning Feb. 1. Five plants in the United States and Canada will be affected.

The models are the RAV4, Corolla, Matrix, Avalon, Camry, Highlander, Tundra and Sequoia.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/01/toyota-to-suspend-sales-production-of-8-models/1

I hope some buyers will consider purchasing from the US automakers now that the myth of superior quality has been broken.

...then the roads would be less congested with idiots.

...is apparently fine. Perhaps one should make sure of the country of
origin when one buys a car?

Tesha

NO ONE HERE knows if it is an engineering defect, a compromise made in materials by Toyota to reduce costs, NO ONE KNOWS, so stop soft balling for Toyota, they SCREWED UP.


HOW COME THE ACCELERATIOR PEDALS MADE BY CTS FOR HONDA AND NISSAN AREN'T CAUSING PROBLEMS????????


Throttle-pedal assemblies from Toyota's other supplier, Denso,

are not all interchangeable

, eliminating that as a quick-fix solution, Toyota says.

CTS also supplies throttle assemblies to Honda, Nissan and Mitsubishi. Those companies say their designs are different and pose no risk of sticking open.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2010-01-25-toyotalong_st_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip

Or do they not supervise their low bid contracts?

just people who forget what the name of the country is they live in and do web crap instead of real work with their hands..

Toyota fans defend the company no matter what happens. That or they are interesting absent from any threads that show Toyota in a bad light.

I have good friends who own a Toyota dealership, have for over 25 years. It's a great business for them, they sell nearly 200 cars a month in spite of the recession. This will hurt them, and it will hurt everyone involved down the line. And in spite of those who defend the parent company at the expense of American companies, I say, if you have an engineering degree and are privy to Toyota's design blueprints for the throttle assembly WHICH THEY THEMSELVES CANNOT FIND A SOULTON FOR then show us how to fix it instead of saying it's the fault of the American sub-contractor, BECAUSE IF THE DENSO ASSEMBLIES WERE IDENTICAL they would easily replace the CTS one, but apparently there IS a design difference so therein lies the problem.

Additionally I'd like to welcome all current Toyota customers who are thinking about a GM or Ford product. Remember, our frames don't rust, our engines don't sludge up ,and our throttles don't stick. And don;'t give me that crap about the Vega and Pinto. That was then, this is NOW. And Toyota can't get it right.

And I may still be subject to the same problem. So the whole buy American thing is a bit bittersweet for some of us, particularly with this specific recall.

...freeze in the "applied" position. This, BTW, happened to
the rear disc brakes on both sides of my Ford Taurus. Better
steel or better anti-corrosion treatment on that ten-cent
part would have saved two fairly expensive (and safety-endangering
repairs).

And shall I mention my neighbor's garage under their bedroom?
And what their Ford Explorer's defective cruise control release
switch did to that garage?

But hey!, no need to listen to me 'cause I'm a "Toyota fan" and
don't know shit about cars or engineering or nuthin'!

Tesha

I do not now own nor have ever owned a Toyota,
although I might consider a Prius someday.

Tesha

...is that you push the requirements for quality upstream
to the ultimate supplier. You can't "inspect in" quality; you
have to design it in to your products and processes.

Toyota may have put too much faith in CTS.

They probably won't make that mistake again.

Tesha


P.S.: These same quality principles are now used
by companies around the world and not just the
Japanese (although the principles did take rather
longer to set in to US companies, and obviuously
haven't quite reaches all of them yet).

It's a shame because I tended to hold CTS in fairly
high regard as a supplier of electronic components.

60,000 miles and it's the best car I've ever had.

Will this effect the Pontiac Vibe, the identical twin of the Matrix?

There probably aren't any Vibes left to be sold so the sales/production stoppage won't be an issue. But the defect does effect the Vibe.

http://www.caradvice.com.au/54427/pontiac-vibe-included-in-toyota-sticking-accelerator-recall/

Designed together, built apart. Could be wrong.

But if that is the case, then this would seem to be a design issue, not a quality control issue. I still tend to think its a computer program flaw, from all I've heard. The whole "Its the mats" "its the pedal" "its the pivot" seems like it might just be missing the problem. I guess time will tell. So far no problems with my car. And I figure if anything does come up, I will just pop it into neutral. Which is easy to do. At times too easy.

But just in case I suddenly gain a fairy godmother who showers me with funds,

which American cars are entirely manufactured, from raw materials to parts to finished product, in the U.S.?

I'll be happy to check them out.

For good or for ill, it's a global market these days.

Tesha

are assembled right here, by American workers.

It makes loyalty to "American" cars problematic.

n/t