Just make sure that it stays in front - Toyota is to recall 1.8million of their cars in Europe due to a "sudden" acceleration problem. Recall affects 200,000+ cars in the UK 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Last edited by Tim in Scotland on Fri Jan 29 2010 9:51pm. Edited 1 time in total

Good on them

you read about companies not doing recalls due costs against accident payouts

takes balls to do such a big recall Especially in today's climate

have a 2008 Avensis the auto choke has a mind of its own and sometimes in a morning it just accelates at a whim and have to reign it in, would like to swop it for the Skoda i traded in for it purple people eater

There are no good days, just some days that are not as bad as others!


Gone RR 4.0 P38 Autobiography MY99 Red ( money pit)
Gone RRS MY06 2.7TDV6 HSE Rimini Red
Gone RRS MY10 3.0TDV6 HSE Bali Blue with lots of bits (never grew to love it)
Here Now - 3.6 TDV8 FFRR OVERFINCH Stornoway Grey - loving it x
My work car Ford Mondeo 2.0 TDci Zetec auto Estate in Silver

It affects 8 models out of the 11 Toyota produces and is an accelerator pedal design fault - they have already recalled some 3million car in the USA - the component involved are made by one subcontractor for all the cars! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

can imagine someone spotting it in design or manufacture and declaring "it'll be reet" "whats the worse that can happen" purple people eater

There are no good days, just some days that are not as bad as others!


Gone RR 4.0 P38 Autobiography MY99 Red ( money pit)
Gone RRS MY06 2.7TDV6 HSE Rimini Red
Gone RRS MY10 3.0TDV6 HSE Bali Blue with lots of bits (never grew to love it)
Here Now - 3.6 TDV8 FFRR OVERFINCH Stornoway Grey - loving it x
My work car Ford Mondeo 2.0 TDci Zetec auto Estate in Silver

The numbers don't include the several million cars that Toyota have built and sold to the Chinese and are subject to the same recall............ guess that's one supplier of Toyotas Christmas card list at the end of the year! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

this may be game over for Toyota - seriously - the US government are now considering legal action against Toyota on behalf of the American people - The US is Toyota's biggest market and if they loose confidence there then it may cripple them

That will be the US Govt shooting itself in the foot (not that it would be the first time!) seeing as Toyota have several factories building US market cars in the USA! They have enough unemployment problems in their auto-industry as it is. I hear that Honda has a similar problem as well! Hey and Ford made it 1st corporate profit in decades in 2009 - once they started to produce smaller European style sedans over there! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Tim - its definintely an interesting story unfolding for sure - Toyota have been slowing moving production from the US to South America over the last few years too