Posted on 02/03/2010 8:06:20 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Transportation Secy: Don't Drive Recalled Toyotas WASHINGTON (CBS) ―
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood advises owners of recalled Toyotas to stop driving them and seek repair.
Federal safety officials meanwhile widened their investigation of Toyota's sticky gas pedals Wednesday to see if the same problem could exist for other automakers.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has sent a letter to CTS, the Indiana company that made the pedals behind Toyota's recall of millions of vehicles.
The safety agency wants to know more about pedals that CTS made for other auto companies.
CTS says it makes pedals for companies like Honda, Nissan and a small number of Ford vehicles in China.
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THIS IS A UAW - OBAMA PLAN TO PUT TOYOTA OUT OF BUSINESS.
Imagine how this sticking gas pedal problem would be handled if it occurred in a car made by government owned GM or Chrysler.
If there is an angry reaction in the Japanese newspapers could you ping me?
Doesn’t toyota make the avalon for chevy?
Thought to call 911 (like what is 911 gonna' do for you right now?) but nobody thought to turn off the ignition?
“If an Indiana company makes the pedals that caused the recall, shouldn’t they bear the burden of all the cost of the recall? Shouldn’t it be their reputation that is sullied, rather than the auto manufacturer that trusted them?”
That would depend on whether the parts were made to print. It the parts were made as Toyota designed them, then Toyota would be at fault. If the parts are defective, then thee parts company is at fault.
Chevy Cobalt has a serious steering issue. No demands for a recall. No demands that people take them back...
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cobalt-probe3-2010feb03,0,2544439.story
“The NHTSA launches an investigation into owners’ complaints of system failures that make the car tougher to control at low speeds.
The Chevrolet Cobalt could be the next car in trouble because of mechanical problems.
General Motors Co., which makes the compact car, said Tuesday that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into complaints of failing power steering systems in the Cobalt, making it tougher to control at low speeds.
GM and the federal agency have received a total of 1,132 complaints about the car’s power steering system, including reports of 11 accidents, said Tom Wilkinson, a GM spokesman.
One of the accidents resulted in an injury, but Wilkinson said he had no further information on the incident.
There is no recall of the car at this point, and Wilkinson said the company was cooperating with NHTSA in the investigation.
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Buy American. Buy Toyota.
Did you know how to turn off the ignition in that car before the story?
I didn’t.
In case anyone is wondering, this is called Facism.
How many ulterior motives? Let me count the ways...
- drive-up sales at Government Motors
- depress oil prices to help economy and Barry’s poll numbers
- drive down oil consumption to please global warming crowd
- send message to Japan, keep buying T-bills or we can really
screw you good
Absolutely right, ncfool. This is yet another outrageous example of Obama and his goons in their unceasing quest to wield their perceived power in order to destroy the American free enterprise system.
They think Toyota is an easy target because they are foreign and they are non-union. What they’re finding out is that Americans who actually own Toyotas (myself included) LOVE the cars and are seeing right through this ham-handed effort.
Obozo promised transparency; what he’s getting, thanks to the internet, is a kind of “transparency” he neither expected, nor welcomes.
Cut these thugs off at the knees by ousting their accomplces in congress. REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER!
That’s true.
Depends. If the Indiana company designed the defective part then there's liability there, but if they're just building to Toyota's spec then it gets complicated. CTS could share some liability with Toyota if CTS delivered faulty non-spec parts and Toyota's quality control didn't catch it.
All speculation aside, what typically happens in these cases is some flunky test or quality engineer is found and all blame is placed on him for not catching the error. It makes for a nice, neat "fix" and everyone declares victory and goes about their business.
“Thought to call 911 (like what is 911 gonna’ do for you right now?) but nobody thought to turn off the ignition?”
You can’t turn off the ignition until it is in neutral or park.
Until you get to a lower speed you cannot take the car out of drive.
The only thing you can do is to stomp on the break as hard as possible and hope you can lower the speed far enough to get the car into neutral.
After that you had better not shut off the ignition because you lose your power breakunit and probably won’t have enough breaking power to stop the car.
Wonder how many Washington politicians shorted Toyota stock before this testimony?
Turning off the ignition would make the car hard to steer. The driver should have applied the brakes and shifted to neutral.
Just heard on the news this morning that the co-founder of Apple said he thinks it’s the software.
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