Toyota Recall Misses Tacomas, Hits Tundras

Caught this on CNN online this morning. Us Tacoans are good, but our Tacoma brethren not so much:





April 11, 2013
Toyota Announces Voluntary Recall of Certain Vehicles for the Front Passenger Airbag


TORRANCE, Calif., April 11, 2013 – Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. today announced that it will conduct a safety recall involving approximately 170,000 front passenger airbag inflators installed in several vehicle models.

The involved vehicles are equipped with front passenger airbag inflators which could have been assembled with improperly manufactured propellant wafers. Improperly manufactured propellant wafers could cause the inflator to rupture and the front passenger airbag to deploy abnormally in the event of a crash.

The vehicles involved include certain Toyota Corolla, Corolla Matrix, Sequoia, and Tundra, and Lexus SC 430 models manufactured from 2001 – 2003. More precise vehicle information is being developed, but about 510,000 vehicles may have to be inspected to locate the suspect inflators.

Owners of vehicles subject to this safety recall will receive an owner notification letter by first class mail. The recall remedy will involve inspection of the front passenger air bag, and, if it is equipped with an affected inflator, the inflator will be replaced with a newly manufactured one at no charge to the owner.

Detailed information is available to customers at www.toyota.com/recall, the Toyota Customer Experience at 1 800-331-4331, www.lexus.com/recall and Lexus Customer Satisfaction (1 800-255-3987).


Media Contacts:

Vehicle Safety and Quality Communications
Cindy Knight (310) 468-2170
John Hanson (310) 468-4718
Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. Media Line (310) 468-5297

 

It seems odd that it took in the range of 9-11 years to discover a need for this recall.

 

This reminds me of the scene in Fight Club.

"A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."

Must have taken them a while to figure out X.

 

perfect +1 for you

 

Thanks!

 

Think of how many threads we would have if everyone posted everything they found but said how it was irrelevant to Tacomas as their qualifier. This is TACOMAworld.com