Well with two people that would only be mutual ************.

 

There was a third one in the thread.

 

there are always two distinct circle jerk groups in these types of threads

 

Well this is no suprise. Another thread about media bias. Can I take a stab as to why this made it into the news? Might it be because there are over a million vehicles involved in the recall? How many cars were involved in the Mazda recall? A few thousand? Almost everyone was irate because it didn't make front page news . Maybe because it was an insignificant recall. Now Toyota makes it into the news and people are still bitching about media bias. The media definetly has their biases, but too many people here are playing this crap up.

 

oh geeze

 

 

Sorry but your first statement is incorrect. My dear old mother-in-law has received a recall notice for her Corolla (RAV4 built in Japan, too)... in far out Australia. The recall has also received media airing. The problem appears to be isolated to cars produced between 2002-2004. It could be just a precautionary check... but a recall is a recall and the owner needs to make allowances to have their car checked.

 

posts like that get people angry

 

Oh well. Threads like these get me angry.

 

I have my person opinions on this, but I'll leave it out. I just thought that I heard something interesting last week. My teacher at school is going to Toyota tech training so the school can be certified. He made the comment that on a Toyota's that there has been a problem with a mildew smell coming from the evaperator. Toyota's fix, I don't think they will cover any work under warrenty, and that owners that have that problem should turn the A/C off and let the fan run a little bit to dry off the evap. I'm sorry, but my family and relatives have yet to own a vehical that have had that kind of problem. If I owned a Toyota, I would expect them to come up with a fix for it, not to tell me it is my problem. BTW, replacing the evap doesn't fix it.

Just thought that if that was the first I have heard about it, how much else have I not heard about. Makes me hesitant to buy anything Toyota.

 

Mildew smell coming from the vents when first starting the car after it sat for a while with the A/C being on right as it was shut off... that has been a common 'issue' with just about every make and model of car I've encountered since I started driving. For some reason it seems to be much more prevalent in cars with manual climate control than ones with automatic climate control, but regardless. The car that did it the worst was my mom's 96 Ford Taurus. Wife's old 99 Accord did it pretty bad too. Just turn the A/C to vent the last 10 seconds or so before you park and it won't do it. Either that or just spray some lyson and ozone into the air intake for your climate system and let it sit for a while... do that about once every 6 months. Either way it's fine.

 

I remember reading something about weird smells in just about every Toyota vehicle in their lineup in their TSBs, but those TSBs could have been only for vehicles that are a few years old now. I have heard about this problem though before with Toyota. I find it interesting someone brought it up. I don't recall if the smell was AC related though. It was awhile ago, and I didn't pay it much attention to it.

 

there is the same TSB for the f-body

i forget the exact years, but the fix was to use some sort of foam to kill off the bacteria then install some fan of some sort that ran for 2 minuites after the a/c was turned off. later cars, i believe the 97+ interior, had this fix already.

this is going off long ago memory though, so i might be off a bit.

 

The only other smell related problem I can recall is a sulfur smell from certain types of cat converters... this affected makes from all three continents. Nobody really saw it coming. Never was that big of a deal; just some people got offended by a sulfur-like smell from their cat after spirited driving IIRC.

Kinda like the knocking noise from the 4.8 and 5.3 on cold startup. Never caused any problems but still became a big ordeal because it bothered lots of people.

 

You know, now that I think about it, I think you may be right. I believe it was a sulfur like smell, and it may have been from the cat. Since I seldom see Toyota drivers driving spiritedly, I doubt this is something they affected that many people