Toyota Recall...
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Toyota Recall...
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What is there to discuss, oh look Toyota are rectifying a issue they are aware off, let slag them off, after all its the honourable thing, could always try and ignore it like most of GM with their EPS system failures.
Toyota have had a recall, just like most manufactures have yearly....point being what?
People trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill again!
Toyota have had a recall, just like most manufactures have yearly....point being what?
People trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill again!
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I say good on them. None of them are what I'd call 'dangerous' yet they make it fully public when they have them and do pro-active recalls to put he faults right.
Fiat, GM and others sweep it under the rug and try and do the work as part of your 'dealer servicing'. The customer service you get from Fiat and most of their dealers is shocking. The only good dealer I came across was Reg Vardy Fiat in Croft Road Darlington but it went out of business / got bought out
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Fiat, GM and others sweep it under the rug and try and do the work as part of your 'dealer servicing'. The customer service you get from Fiat and most of their dealers is shocking. The only good dealer I came across was Reg Vardy Fiat in Croft Road Darlington but it went out of business / got bought out
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I'm going to stick my head above the parapet here
I had a Toyota that was subject to a recall due to steering.
I was driving a Japanese grey market import, and the recall was based in Japan, however Toyota made that recall available to all grey market vehicles.
Owners had replacement vehicles supplied whilst the work was carried out, some had champagne and free fuel provided, most had free valets (in my case much to the digust of the cleaner, I'd been playing on Salisbury Plain not long before, playing spot the car's colour was agood game )
I cannot fault them, and bearing in mind the grief they had over not issuing recalls it has to be said that they have done the right thing.
Trev (hiding behind the battlements)
I had a Toyota that was subject to a recall due to steering.
I was driving a Japanese grey market import, and the recall was based in Japan, however Toyota made that recall available to all grey market vehicles.
Owners had replacement vehicles supplied whilst the work was carried out, some had champagne and free fuel provided, most had free valets (in my case much to the digust of the cleaner, I'd been playing on Salisbury Plain not long before, playing spot the car's colour was agood game
)I cannot fault them, and bearing in mind the grief they had over not issuing recalls it has to be said that they have done the right thing.
Trev (hiding behind the battlements)
You wouldn't call loosing steering ability dangerous.
Dom
Big difference between what happened to Chris's car and what's happened to the Toyotas though.
You wouldn't call loosing steering ability dangerous.
Dom
Not if it goes when doing a small parking manovur, which is when according to the link it is most likly to occour, if at all.
I remember my friend had an aygo, brakes failed and he ended up wedged into a tree. Toyota washed their hands of it...
So looks like even Toyota some times try to sweep it under the rug.
So looks like even Toyota some times try to sweep it under the rug.
Yeah that's fair enough and doesn't matter so much but I wouldn't like it to go on the motorway.
Dom
Yeah that's fair enough and doesn't matter so much but I wouldn't like it to go on the motorway.
Dom
When your probably the least likely to need power assistance
mile after mile of long straight tarmac
How did they fail out of interest? No known brake issues with the Aygo, only accelerator pedal issues, and this was only on the automatic versions with Toyota MMT transmission (equivalent of Fiat Dualogic box).
Thats when the splines break, you still have a nut so loss may not happen till later
Think it means the crank shaft aux pully John cant see where they got gear box from unless its driven off the gear box input shaft
it mentions loss of cooling ability as well so i Assume (probably wrongly ) that the Crank shaft drives the water pump / Power steering pump / Alternator which is splined and it strips leaving a slipping pully which will do so much for a while till it self bores itself out then gets rather loose
it mentions loss of cooling ability as well so i Assume (probably wrongly
) that the Crank shaft drives the water pump / Power steering pump / Alternator which is splined and it strips leaving a slipping pully which will do so much for a while till it self bores itself out then gets rather loose
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i thought it was 2 seperate faults and by gearbox they mean steering gear
"insufficient hardness of the steering shaft".
you just couldn't make it up [or get it up apparently]
you just couldn't make it up [or get it up apparently]
