Toyota faces second fine for slow disclosure of accelerator pedal defect

And I hope your comments about Toyota are a joke, because they are ridiculous...Toyota did not manufacture the pedals that got recalled, CTS did. But do you hear Toyota passing the blame? Do you even know what they are doing for the recalls? Did you know that the floormat recall has to do with stupid people putting a floormat on top of another floormat? Do you hear Toyota blaming driver error? Before you start bashing someone, you should get your facts right.

quick, I think you're jumping to conclusions too quickly. CTS may have manufactured the pedals, but Toyota designed them, and approved of their manufacturing. Secondly, do you know how Toyota fixed the floor mat problem? with zip ties! haha talk about cheap. I guess the price of a new car doesn't get you much these days from Japan. And finally, pedals don't automatically pin themselves as most of the reports indicate. I'd say there is a 95% chance this is an electrical gremlin. After all, these "fixed" cars are still accelerating unintendedly. Toyota isn't jumping on the fix because it wasn't as cheap as a pin, or twist ties.

Joe, I am not jumping to conclusions, I work in Toyota Service, so I just simply know what is going on. There is a ton of bad information out there, just like your exact comment. Zip ties??? What is your source on that? That is absolutely insane if you believe that. The 90L potential floormat interferance recall is this exactly: shaving off about 1/2 an inch off the bottom of the gas pedal, replacing the tibia pad with a thinner one, and programming the brake override on vehicles that don't already have it. All of this makes more clearance for a sliding floormat, and gives drivers the ability to override the gas pedal input. This is all because people don't use the Toyota floormat with the clips that hold it in place, they buy a cheaper on from Walmart, then put another plastic one on top that will slide up to the pedals... Don't believe everything the news tells you.

http://jalopnik.com/5376828/toyota-fixing-deadly-killer-floor-mats-with-zip-ties

Ok Joe, I take it that you don't go to the source for answers. Just like when your PS3 has a problem, you don't contact Sony, you would rather ask your cheat code website instead....not smart. Well, I don't think you all can access this website without a login and password because it is only availible to Toyota employees, but here it is anyway: http://tis.toyota.com/t3Portal/resources/jsp/siviewer/index.jsp?href=cp/T-CP-90L-B510-D/xhtml/T-CP-90L-B510-D.html&locale=en&t3id=T-CP-90L-B510-D&User=false&publicationNumber=T-CP-90L-B510-D&objType=cp&docTitle=Safety+Recall+90L+-+2007-2010+Camry+%28CTS+Pedals%29%3A+Potential+Floor+Mat+Interference+%28Technical+Instructions%29&docid=2655533&context=int

It depends, is hiding life threatening defects a crime? I think Toyota should have just issued a recall when they discovred the defect a few years ago.