Pinching pennies costs in the long run...

[BusyBadger]

...well, it might. More bad news for Toyota.

http://www.freep.com/article/2...ecall

[MinisterofDOOM]

Thank you, Toyota, for legitimizing yourself as my long-time choice as favorite automotive scapegoat. Even when you were still making a few decent cars you were fun to laugh at. Now I don't think I'll EVER get bored.

[raremotive]

Pinching pennies costs in the long run...

Awesome name for the engineering model for toyota to used.

[f1seb]

Wow this media attack on Toyota is just relentless. If this was an American car company that would be enough to make them go belly up......oh wait.....

It will be interesting to see how bad this company will be hit financially after all is said and done.

[bersh240]

my dads toyota had a sticky pedal. and the floor mat bunched up down there.fixed that a longg time ago.wd-40 every 500 milesand scissors for the floor mat.i dont understand why its such a big deal really.

[snwbrdr435]

^ Because people are to dumb to figure out stuff on their own anymore.

[dusred]

Despite all Toyota's problems they are still the best car on the road (next to Nissan of course )

[joe_yoh]

Thanks for sharing the link.

[Red coupe]

my dads toyota had a sticky pedal. and the floor mat bunched up down there.fixed that a longg time ago.wd-40 every 500 milesand scissors for the floor mat.i dont understand why its such a big deal really.

^ Because people are to dumb to figure out stuff on their own anymore.

Actually, that would be a "big" deal to me.

If you are buying a new (or newish) car, you REALLY shouldn't have to climb into the foot well and lube the gas pedal every couple of weeks to keep the car from accelerating on its own.

Not something that should just be acceptable, or only considered a problem for "dumb people" even if it doesn't have to be life threatening.

[dusred]

Actually, that would be a "big" deal to me.

If you are buying a new (or newish) car, you REALLY shouldn't have to climb into the foot well and lube the gas pedal every couple of weeks to keep the car from accelerating on its own.

I'm with stupid.

If I'm paying $28,000 for a new car I don't want to use WD 40 every week to keep the thing going. Toyota needs to get their s*** figured out.

[Ozzie]

What happened to the little blob of grease they put on the accelerator pivot from the factory?

I don't care if you make 1,000,00 cars, that blob of grease for every car can't cost that much..... probably less than 1 cent per car.

What happened to the idea of making a good car, and not being a tightass about it?Sure you can cut costs in certain areas, like designing a better, stronger chassis that uses less metal, or takes less time to make..... but don't skimp on my accelerator pivot grease! jerks

[Ace2cool]

Seriously, this is just getting rediculous. This is going to hurt them in the long run.

“Our first priority is the safety of our customers and to conclude otherwise on the basis of one internal presentation is wrong,” the company said in a prepared statement. “Our values have always been to put the customer first and ensure the highest levels of safety and quality.”

on that. Quantity over quality in the name of profit has been the name of the game for the past decade or so, as far as I can see.

Toyota has said repeatedly that no malfunction in any of its vehicles’ electronic throttle system contributed to any incidents of unintended acceleration, which has been cited in hundreds of accidents, including 34 fatalities, according to NHTSA.

again! This shows that the fault, (which there is one, and it doesn't get recorded in the ECU, so they don't "read" as a fault) can be duplicated in a lab setting:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/...age=1

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Modified by Ace2cool at 10:14 PM 2/22/2010