Another Toyota Tundra Recall, This Time Driveshafts.
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Another Toyota Tundra Recall, This Time Driveshafts.
Bloomberg News
Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling 15,600 of its new Tundra pickup trucks to fix a rear driveshaft that could separate, causing the wheels to stop turning.
The recall covers four-wheel-drive versions of the 2007 Tundra, Toyota's Torrance, California-based U.S. sales unit said Friday in an e-mailed statement.
There has been one occurrence of the problem, with no accidents or injuries, the company said.
"The rear propeller shaft in some of the vehicles may not have been sufficiently heat-treated by the supplier," said Bill Kwong, a Toyota spokesman. "If it separates, it would be like the vehicle went into neutral, with a lot of noise."
The recall follows an earlier announcement by Toyota that it would replace V-8 engines in 20 of the 2007 trucks because of defective camshafts.
The large pickup, which went on sale in February, also failed to win top safety scores for all model types in National Highway Traffic Safety Administration tests.
The revised Tundra is Toyota's challenge to the dominance of General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC in U.S. sales of large pickups.
Toyota is second, behind GM, in total U.S. and worldwide sales of cars and trucks.
Notification of owners starts late this month. Toyota said.
Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling 15,600 of its new Tundra pickup trucks to fix a rear driveshaft that could separate, causing the wheels to stop turning.
The recall covers four-wheel-drive versions of the 2007 Tundra, Toyota's Torrance, California-based U.S. sales unit said Friday in an e-mailed statement.
There has been one occurrence of the problem, with no accidents or injuries, the company said.
"The rear propeller shaft in some of the vehicles may not have been sufficiently heat-treated by the supplier," said Bill Kwong, a Toyota spokesman. "If it separates, it would be like the vehicle went into neutral, with a lot of noise."
The recall follows an earlier announcement by Toyota that it would replace V-8 engines in 20 of the 2007 trucks because of defective camshafts.
The large pickup, which went on sale in February, also failed to win top safety scores for all model types in National Highway Traffic Safety Administration tests.
The revised Tundra is Toyota's challenge to the dominance of General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC in U.S. sales of large pickups.
Toyota is second, behind GM, in total U.S. and worldwide sales of cars and trucks.
Notification of owners starts late this month. Toyota said.
They just keep on coming.........Toyota quality
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Just when you thought it couldn't get ANY worse for this truck. Wow. They really dropped the ball on this one... I guess that's what you get for rushing into a market that you have zero experience in. They should have done a little bit better homework.
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I smell another T100 fiasco on the way. Tundra is becoming a tainted name.
Could it be, Toyota's reached its limit, on growing market share? Its growing quality problems sure seem to indicate this.
Could it be, Toyota's reached its limit, on growing market share? Its growing quality problems sure seem to indicate this.
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It's obvious Toyota quality is not at all what it once was. Not just with the Tundra but some of their other models, too.
The question, now, is - will they take 15-20 years to fix those problems like GM did, or will they recover more quickly before too many people in the general public start to notice and their hard earned reputation is permanently damaged?
The question, now, is - will they take 15-20 years to fix those problems like GM did, or will they recover more quickly before too many people in the general public start to notice and their hard earned reputation is permanently damaged?
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Like people who know anyhting about a car besides how to drive know how limited this really is, they'll see recall and then stay away, even if it doesn't concern that model.
Also, notice how the article states Toyota blames the issue on a supplier...
Also, notice how the article states Toyota blames the issue on a supplier...
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I just find it interest that, even though the recall is a relative low number, it represents the same percentage of so called problems that are alleged recalls in domestics. Its just the Toyota hasn't built million of these trucks. If they had, we would be see a recall in the millions. Then it would be all over the news....maybe.
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BUT, to lay the blame on the suppliers is really a swipe at the Toyota 'System' because in order to be a Toyota supplier, that company must pass stringent Toyota company standards/methodologies.
Let me ask you this, if GM were in the news for a recall, does John Doe out there blame the supplier or GM? I'd say that GM would get the negative publicity. Ditto Toyota... so you can't really split hairs.
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The supplier shouldn't get any of the blame. Toyota designed the part, they spec-ed out the part, they selected the supplier, they should have tested the part, and quality control should have cought any problems with the part. It is easy to see where the blame lies.
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Put it this way, do you blame all the dash parts suppliers for the ****ty dashes of the 80s/90s GM vehicles? Or do you blame the GM Bean Counters for deciding to cheap out and use those suppliers.