Sudden Acceleration & Safety Problems

[red2002solara]

When Toyota announced the first recall, they claimed the problem had to do with the floor mats. The NHSTA actually chastised Toyota for not being forthright about the issue.

With the second recall, Toyota has something like 6.5 million vehicles under the recall. There is no way this is a floor mat issue. There are reports of acceleration problems in vehicles with the floor mats removed.

Toyota is now acting like GM, Ford, and Chysler did: build substandard cars and deny any problems with them.

I would not be surprised if the Solara eventually gets included in the recall.

[Sparky5e]

First we have throttle lag and now this to look forward to

[.onetohate]

fkn yota, they did awesome through out the 90's - .. but now it surprises me how they won't take responsibility of admitting what the real problem is. People are dying and they're still on floor mats and gas pedal story. What a damn shame.

[SoLarry]

TORRANCE, Calif. - Toyota Motor Co. said Tuesday it was suspending U.S. sales of eight recalled vehicle models to fix accelerator pedals that stick, the latest quality problem to confront the world's No. 1 automaker. ...........The auto company said the sales suspension would not affect Lexus or Scion vehicles. Toyota said the Prius, Tacoma, Sienna, Venza, Solara, Yaris, 4Runner, FJ Cruiser, Land Cruiser and select Camry models, including all Camry hybrids, would remain for sale.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35086922/ns/business-autos

[wkbrdr91]

im not sure if this is normal or not, but alot of times, especially when my engine is cold, my car when at a dead stop with car in drive, will lurch fowards a little bit even with my foot on the brake, now if im pressing hard it wont go anywhere, but when lightly pressing it this happens occasionally.

[GzNutz]

im not sure if this is normal or not, but alot of times, especially when my engine is cold, my car when at a dead stop with car in drive, will lurch fowards a little bit even with my foot on the brake, now if im pressing hard it wont go anywhere, but when lightly pressing it this happens occasionally.

That is just torque building up because your engine is still idling high to warm up to operating temp. Also could be due to our weak ass brakes.

[DriDed]

If you are sitting idle at a stoplight, it helps if you shift to neutral, the car won't likely to roll forward as much if your foot is on the brake.

[SoLarry]

excerpts from: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100129/ap_on_bi_ge/toyota_recall

DETROIT – Toyota has begun shipping parts to fix the faulty gas pedals that led to a still-expanding recall and an unprecedented decision to stop selling and building some of its top-selling models, but it still could not say Thursday when millions of its drivers would get their cars fixed. ...... Toyota said the maker of the faulty gas pedal systems, CTS Corp. of Elkhart, Ind., was cranking out replacements at three factories, and that some of them already been shipped to Toyota.

At the same time, Toyota engineers are working with CTS to develop ways to repair, rather than replace, the pedal systems in existing cars and trucks, said spokesman Brian Lyons.

Toyota offered its most detailed description of the problem: Condensation can form in the mechanism that connects the foot pedal to the car's engine, causing friction that prevents the pedal from smoothly springing back when the driver eases up.

Jake Fisher, senior automotive engineer for Consumer Reports magazine, said the water probably causes corrosion.

The parts produced by CTS include the plastic pedal on which the driver's foot rests and the plastic arm beneath it, which runs through a hole in the floorboard and ultimately into a box in the engine compartment. Inside the box are springs that push the pedal back to its resting position when the driver takes his foot off the gas.


CTS has said that the problem is rare — occurring in fewer than a dozen cases — and that no accidents or injuries have been linked to the pedal. The head of CTS, Vinod Khilnani, said his company built the pedal to Toyota's specifications.

A consumer group, Safety Research and Strategies, has said it identified 2,274 cases of unintended acceleration in Toyotas leading to at least 275 crashes and 18 deaths since 1999. Toyota would not confirm those figures.