PEDAL GATE UPDATE: Toyota To Send First Gas Pedals To Factories NOT Cars Posing Risks On The Road

is that a bad thing? if toyota goes bankrupt tomorrow (not selling cars), none of the customer will get their pedal replaced for free, ever.

by the way. i am very interested in the failing rate of the pedal. i still recall every article in autospies mention GTR's transmission problem, make it sounds like there is not tomorrow and your GTR's tranmission will break as soon as you floor the gas, while in reality there are less than 20 GTR tranmission was affect out thousands they sell.

— ghosthunter (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2010 3:13:51 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

oh. it is agent 009 post. i got it

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Posted on 1/29/2010 3:14:32 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4   

you are a disgisting liar. these cars are killing people. how many thousands of people have been killed by these cars that didn't get recorded by 911?

shame on you both; toyota and whore

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Posted on 1/29/2010 10:06:44 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

AGENT009
I dare you saying that it is like the audi 5000 in the 80's. Do your diligent research before posting such a ignorant comment.
There was nothing wrong with the pedal in the Audi. it was operator error. This was proven by the NHTSA and independent research from Japan and Canada. The 60 minutes piece sent a lot of unbased complaints to the dealers. Audi never paid a dime in any settlements and all lawsuits were lost by the plaintiffs or dismissed.
Besides the life of that poor little kid, no other lives were lost, i do not recall if there was any and how many injuries it would have created. But nothing compare to 20 deaths and at least 2000 injuries. And toyota is admitting already their wrong doing and you can expect the settlements to be in the hundred of millions of dollars.

Good day

— 1evlaudi (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2010 4:12:39 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

How many people are not around to tell us that it was a sticky pedal that cause the accident that caused their death!

This is a very serious design flaw by toyota!

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Posted on 1/29/2010 4:24:16 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

CTS Pedal VS. Denso Pedal - Image - Toyota Recall - Shows the good pedal by Denso and the bad pedal by CTS

http://www.tuneyfish.com/blog/cts-pedal-vs-denso-pedal-image-toyota-recall/

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Posted on 1/29/2010 4:29:17 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

Pedal Gate ? Don't think so.
Toyota is at least making sure no new car comes off the line with a bad part. You can easily check the operation of the pedal when the car is off. Braking is not affected.

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Posted on 1/29/2010 5:22:09 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Toyota is at it again why is it a problem for them to fix the cars on the road that could potentially could kill instead of cars they have yet to sell?




The answer again and time and time again is profits the very thing that declined them over the last decade and brought them to this point. So selling new cars before fixing customers that already bought thier cars. This certainly is not a good businesses practice or is it safe for the customers and the public.

— upwards (View Profile)

Posted on 1/29/2010 8:50:08 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4   

Yes the other point is that the supplier claims that they made the pedal to Toyota's specifications. What that sounds like to me is that Toyota has been diligently working to cut costs in many parts that the consumer never sees. Perhaps their specifications went a little too far. Another point this is not the first problem Toyota has had with treliability. What about the rust problems on the chassis rails of some Toyota trucks. This seems to be the result of Toyota expanding too rapidly for it's own structure to handle. Their drive to be the largest auto maker may have simply backfired. One does not have to be the largest to make money.

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Posted on 1/29/2010 11:49:09 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4   

"...the supplier claims that they made the pedal to Toyota's specifications."

they were obviously just trying to DODGE a bullet by passing the buck back to toyota.

toyota's other supplier, Denso, had the SAME SPECS. but none of the Denso pedals were faulty.

goes back to what i've said and many others have long believed: toyota's problems escalated as they used more AMERICAN parts to replace previously sourced parts from japanese suppliers.

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Posted on 1/30/2010 2:06:59 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: -3   

Turn off the key or put the car in "N" dumb ass americans

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Posted on 1/30/2010 12:09:58 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

This article proves nothing.

Sounds like a bunch of happy horse $h!t.

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Posted on 1/30/2010 12:32:21 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

Why would the factory distribute them instead of shipping them directly to dealers?

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Posted on 1/30/2010 5:36:35 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

Further Toyota still is talking about being #1. This goes against the very grain of selling quality. As someone else said CTS took the exact specs from Toyota. What ever parts they used in the pedel you better believe that Toyota specified parts,material etc.The only way CTS could be at fault is if they did NOT build the part to Toyota's specs or did NOT use the right materials in a part. I seriously doubt this. I believe this was Toyota's screw up and Toyota's alone.

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Posted on 1/30/2010 7:01:57 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

yeah, toyota does the right thing, and people STILL BITCH!

so how many "casualties" were there altogether? LESS than 10 died; less than 20 injured. so toyota does a conservative action by recalling nearly SEVEN MILLION in response. how many of those MILLIONS of vehicles were actually at risk?

the media hype has WAY overblown this whole thing. and the haters just pile on, making like EVERY ONE of the millions is a time bomb!

— XYZZ (View Profile)

Posted on 1/31/2010 3:41:14 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

and among those killed or injured, well they were likely more victims of social Darwinism than an evil, money grubbing toyota. they screwed up in at least TWO ways:

1) they likely STOMPED ON THE GAS, rather than just gently accelerated. what else would make a gas pedal get STUCK against totally passive floormats or sticky pedal return mechanisms?

2) they were too ignorant to simply FLIP the gear selector to N. in this situation, EVERY driver who ever drove a stick would push in the clutch as a near REFLEXIVE ACTION. shifting to N is the equivalent with an autobox.

at the very BOTTOM of the IQ totem pole, some drivers may not even KNOW what N is for. they go from P to D, and sometimes R. that's all. the FULL extent of their knowledge of making the car move.

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Posted on 1/31/2010 3:54:27 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

i nominate the drivers in the fatal crashes for DARWIN AWARDS.

they ingeniuosly managed to take perfectly safe cars which TENS OF MILLIONS of other drivers never had problems with, or at worst had just MINOR problems easily handled by competent drivers, and somehow MANAGED TO KILL themselves and their passengers.

yep, DARWIN AWARD time again!

— XYZZ (View Profile)

Posted on 2/2/2010 8:18:30 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1