Why drive a rice-burner P/U when you can drive one of these! :-]
Posted on 01/19/2007 6:14:25 AM PST by eraser2005
Because if they put latches in, they have to be certified by NHTSA - and that takes 9 months. And the Feds wouldn't give them a waiver or allow any time for certification, so out the switches went (I do some work for a company here in Dallas tha makes parts for the switches). Should also be noted that the Tundra is being replaced this year anyway, and it DOES have the certified latches in it.
Of course, they could still have done things the right way - or easier yet, do them the right way the first time. This isn't rocket science where you have some unknown combination of factors that result in a problem - it was clearly spelled out in the law.
So their workers here in the states work for free?
Love my 2004 Tundra Limited!
And in my experience, Toyota does a terrible job of stepping up to the plate....
BTW - I know someone who had a "cruise control fire". At least that's what the fire department claimed.
Until, that is, it was pointed out to them that they identified the source of the fire as near the firewall on the passenger side, which is NOT where the master cylinder is located. Still, it got reported to NHTSA as a suspected fire as the fault of the cruise control switch.
But, you know, jumping on the bandwagon can be fun!
btw - that fire ended up being the result of some gadget they'd jammed in the glove box, which overheated and lit paper in the box on fire.
Not at all related to anything Ford did...
Guess what DFD reported as the source of ignition?
See post 20.
Actually, Toyota is at least 50% owned by USA citizens or companies.
Hard to say exact percentage, but somewhere in the 40-60% is the range.
I buy a lot of fleet trucks (about 100/year)
With some reluctance, I started bying a few Nissan Titans, but they have proved so good, that's all I'm getting next year.
Well, that's one of those oversights that simply can't be fixed; I'm willing to bet whoever was responsible for not pointing this out in the legal department got fired.
FYI, any time you change the general design of a safety restraint (or add one) to a vehicle, NHTSA makes you go through the entire crash testing certification again, from zero.
What's the gas mileage on those, I heard it wasn't too good?
At least one of our Dallas-area construction companies has already done that. They're working on a building next to one of my clients, and as of last year all their F-150s have vanished. They replaced them with Titans.
Considering that it's got a high-output 5.6L V8, it's not bad. It *is* worse than the Ford 4.6 V8 and V6 trucks, about the same as the 5.4 trucks in some configurations. Comparing to GM, worse than the 4.8 and 5.3, better than the 6.0. I don't know how they compare to the Ram because Dodge only makes one engine worth considering, the Cummins Turbo Diesel.
"These were made in Indiana."
A BigMac made at a Tokyo McDonalds is still American food. A riceburner assembled in Indiana is still Jap junk.
No, it's Japanese food. It's sometimes made with Kobe beef.
Probably 18. It's hard to tell.
These are oilfield trucks and spend most of their (brutal and short) lives on "lease" roads --- dirt roads -- hauling roughnecks and very heavy pieces of iron.
They don't break as much, which is all I care about.
I do have F-350s for the heavier stuff.
Nissan also lets me order them like I want: white, no carpet, vinyl seats, automatic, 4x4 with skid plates et al, and an AM/FM radio, cancel step rails. A real work truck.
This will offend the riceburner religion. You should know by not that the Jap car worshippers can't stand when anything negative insults there stinking vehicles.
So I guess Chevy's should be called burrito burners, since the frame and chasis and engine are all made and assembeled in Mexico?
I think they screw on the chinese-made plate that says "Made in USA" in Indiana and that's about it.
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