Toyota to fix 1.27 million cars in Japan's largest recall

TOKYO -- Toyota Motor Corp., the world's second-largest carmaker, will fix defects in 1.27 million vehicles in Japan's largest one-time recall.

The recall will cover 16 models including the Corolla, the RAV4 and the Vitz, Toyota said in a filing to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport today. The recall will cost 15.49 billion yen ($134 million), 14.8 billion yen domestically and 690 million yen overseas, said Toyota spokesman Paul Nolasco.

There have been no reports of injuries from the defects, the Tokyo-based Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said on its Web site today. The affected vehicles were built between May 10, 2000, and Aug. 31, 2002. The carmaker is repairing faulty headlamps in all of the vehicles and faulty brakes in 3,722 units, Toyota said.

Automakers fix the vehicles at no cost to customers. They typically pay for recalls out of reserves set aside for that purpose. A defect in headlamps may turn lights off, Toyota said.


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See Japanese make ****ty cars and all foreign cars suck.
Ha where are the media bias people? I found it on 9587 websites. American cars suck.
Your stupid.
Youre stupier.
I hate foreign cars. They suck and have recalls.
Media bias hahahaha it was all over the news.

And so will die a thread that could have had value.

 

Cliff's notes please.

 

Just because they are starting to get more coverage now does not mean they always were receiving such coverage.

The media appears to be having its moods as well. They swing from favouring one manufacturer to another, and likewise they swing from disliking one manufacturer to another. Not too long ago you wouldn't read too many great things about Audis, pick up any of the big 3 car magazines now (MT, R&T, C&D) and they are absolutely the most wonderfully put together cars, although there is hardly any improvement from previous models that were trashed.

Maybe they got tired of picking on the same manufacturers for so long, maybe it's time to find a new victim. And maybe they are not allocating as much money to advertising as they used to.

 

Why do they keep calling Toyota the 2nd largest manufacturer? Last I checked this year Ford and Chrysler was out selling Toyota. So you sell the 4th most cars and become the 2nd largest manufacturer? I though Calc 2 was hard.

 

A defect may cause the headlights to turn off. Wow... catostrophic! I had 3 recalls on my Silverado worse than that and never even saw them mentioned in the news, nor did I get too bothered by them.

Toyota is the second best selling manufacturer in the world, second only to GM.

 

You forgot the good ole "I had a recall on my American car. It involved a completely different part and was years ago. It has absolutely nothing to do with this but I'll post it anyway. Now to wait until the next American car recall thread and yell at anyone bring up a recall on a Japanese car as being off topic and biased."

Oh wait, seems someone already covered that one

Chris

 

Would you want that in midtown Memphis after 10pm?

 

Sorry if I've blown your fuse by reporting what the media chooses to air...but the media seems content to steer clear of Toyota issues even though most of us mere mortals are aware that recalls are most definitely part of the automotive business. The media only sometimes discriminates... now its Toyotas turn.

It wasn't that long ago ... as reported on autoweek that Toyota were neglecting to recall issues relating to the Scion's low speed bucking (if I recall)... "all normal" was Toyota's response to Autoweek staff!

 

ok thats enough of a useless post-whoreish post for me



btw: SSbaby i cant get any of the threads on ls1holden.com to work. i get this message
"Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/aust/public_html/forum/includes/template.php(127) : eval()'d code on line 117"
just thought id let you know.

 

Yes, thanks for the feedback. Apparently a database issue... all fixed now.

 

Blown my fuse? I'm not upset.

As I don't think I need to continue to prove, the media doesn't steer clear of Toyota's recalls. Supposedly they used to. Amazingly enough people finally stopped making that claim as soon as I started bothering to post news.google.com links. I wonder if I'd started doing that oh, maybe, a year or two earlier (though that far back I'm not sure if news.google.com was running?) if the claims of media bias would have stopped all that much sooner?

Convenient that the 'media stopped their bias' right about the time that I decided to pull up some real stats.

 

If this announcement is made on both my local NBC news and also on the NBC Nightly News this evening - as almost every Ford or GM notice seems to be, I'll be both satisfied (and impressed).
Stay tuned... I'll let you know.

PS - You hold your breath... I'm not going to hold mine.

 

I can't ever see buying a foreign car (the wife is a different story). However, I think some of you really overblow this "media bias" thing. A LOT.

Smells like excuses.

PS...I wouldn't expect a recall in Japan on a Toyota to be on our local news anymore than I would expect a Ford recall in the US to be on Japan's local news.

 

You might refer to Bob's comment below your post.

Do you honestly expect the nightly news to report a recall as minor as a recall on headlight switches in Japan?

I sure wouldn't expect the Japanese news to give a damn about a US company with a minor, though widespread, US-only recall.