Recalls
| Campaign | Manufacturer | Manufacturing date | Type | # of units affected | Date Owner notified Mfg | Recall Initiated by | Manufacturers of recalled vehicles/products | Report Recieved Date | Record Creation Date | Regulation Part Number | FMVSS Number | |||||
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| 10V035000 | GULF STATES TOYOTA, INC. | V (Vehicle) | 271417 | 05/27/2010 | MFR | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 02/03/2010 | 02/03/2010 | 571 | 110 | ||||||
| Defect Summary | Gulf states toyota is recalling certain model year 2005-2010 vehicles for failing to comply with the requirements of federal motor vehicle safety standard no. 110, tire selection and rims. these vehicles were sold between september 1, 2005 and june 2, 2008 without the requisite load carrying capacity modification labels. | |||||||||||||||
| Consequence Summary | This does not meet the standard requirements. | |||||||||||||||
| Corrective Summary | Dealers will mail to consumers the corrected label or the customer will have the option for dealers to install the label free of charge. dealers will also correct the owner's manual. the safety recall began on may 27, 2010. owners may contact gulf states toyota at 713-580-3300. | |||||||||||||||
| Notes | Owners may also contact the national highway traffic safety administration's vehicle safety hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (tty 1-800-424-9153), or go to http://www.safercar.gov . | |||||||||||||||
| 09V332000 | TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC. | from 05/19/2009 to 06/01/2009 | V (Vehicle) | 1309 | 09/03/2009 | MFR | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 08/19/2009 | 08/19/2009 | 571 | 208 | |||||
| Defect Summary | Toyota is recalling certain model year 2010 corolla vehicles for failing to comply with the requirements of federal motor vehicle safety standard no. 208, occupant crash protection. the air bag label installed on the driver side sun visor can separate from the surface of the visor. | |||||||||||||||
| Consequence Summary | This does not meet the standard requirements. | |||||||||||||||
| Corrective Summary | Dealers will inspect the label and exchange the driver's side sun visor free of charge. the recall began on september 3, 2009. owners may contact toyota at 1-800-331-4331. | |||||||||||||||
| Notes | Owners may also contact the national highway traffic safety administration's vehicle safety hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (tty 1-800-424-9153), or go to http://www.safercar.gov . | |||||||||||||||
| 10V036000 | SOUTHEAST TOYOTA DISTRIBUTORS, LLC | V (Vehicle) | 153418 | 05/27/2010 | MFR | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 02/03/2010 | 02/03/2010 | 571 | 110 | ||||||
| Defect Summary | Southeast toyota is recalling certain model year 2005-2011 passenger vehicles for failing to comply with the requirements of federal motor vehicle safety standard no. 110, tire selection and rims. these vehicles were sold between september 1, 2005 and june 2, 2008 without the requisite load carrying capacity modification labels. | |||||||||||||||
| Consequence Summary | A driver may overload a vehicle which may increase the risk of a crash. | |||||||||||||||
| Corrective Summary | Dealers will mail to consumers the corrected label or the customer will have the option for dealers to install the label free of charge. the safety recall began on may 27, 2010. owners may contact southeast toyota at 1-954-420-2000. | |||||||||||||||
| Notes | Owners may also contact the national highway traffic safety administration's vehicle safety hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (tty 1-800-424-9153), or go to http://www.safercar.gov . | |||||||||||||||
Investigations
| NHTSA ID | Manufacturer | Date open | Date close | Subject | Recall campaign | |
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| RQ10003 | TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION | 02/16/2010 | UNINTENDED ACCELERATION | |||
| On september 26, 2007, toyota filed a defect information report and notified nhtsa that some of its model year (my) 2007 and 2008 lexus e350 and toyota camry vehicles could experience unintended and uncontrolled acceleration due to interference between the optional all weather floor mat offered on those vehicles and the vehicles' accelerator pedal.this decision was influenced by an office of defects investigation (odi) engineering analysis.this recall was designated 07e082.two years later, on october 5, 2009, toyota filed a defect information report and notified nhtsa that a number of its my 2004-2009 lexus and toyota vehicles may also experience unintended and uncontrolled acceleration due to interference between the accelerator pedal and the driver's floor mat.this recall was designated 09v388.several months later, on january 27, 2010, toyota filed an amended, or supplemental, defect information report and expanded the population of vehicles to include additional my 2008-2010 toyota and lexus vehicles.since this expansiontook place in a different calendar year, this recall was designated 10v023.separately on january 21, 2010, toyota filed a defect information report and notified nhtsa that certain toyota vehicles and certain pontiac vibe vehicles contained a safety defect in the accelerator pedal assembly that may cause the accelerator pedal to become harder to depress, slower to return, or in the worse case, mechanically stuck in a partially depressed position.nhtsa designated this recall 10v017.in total, the four recalls cover over 7.6 million toyota and lexus vehicles as well as the pontiac vibe product made by new united motor manufacturing, inc., a venture of toyota and general motors corporation.nhtsa requires additional information from toyota to more fully understand and evaluate, among other things, whether the scope of the recalls identified above (makes, models and model years) is sufficiently broad.the agency is seeking to determine whether toyota viewed the underlying defects too narrowly as interference between the accelerator pedal and the driver | ||||||
Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
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| 05/21/2010 | 1400 | ||
| Purchased a new 2010 corrolla. driving home from work last week, i had two service lights on (my car has 1400 miles on it). the steering in the car seemed loose as i drove home, but when i went to turn on my street, the steering wheel did not turn and the abs failed. i hit a curb on the opposite side of the road damaging a strut and an alloy wheel. my local dealer, lakeland toyota, told me it was not their problem but that i needed to figure out how to pay for the repairs. they told me that they had no idea why those two warning lights were on. i am currently trying to work with toyota corporate to get this resolved in a manner that i will feel safe driving the car. kind of hard to do when they refure to accept that there is a problem. | |||
| 03/05/2010 | 3711 | ||
| My car engine revs up to about 3000 rpm while in park, has happened twice since the pedal was fixed due to a recall. recall pedal work completed 02/11/10 first incident of unintended acceleration on 3/5/10 took car to dealership no problems found, second incident of unintended acceleration on 4/3/10 took to dealership no problems found. | |||
| EQUIPMENT ADAPTIVE | |||
| 11/12/2009 | 0 | 1 | |
| I bought a 2010 toyota corolla for my away-from-home college-student daughter. we were aware of the floormat problem when we bought the car and took delivery on october 28, 2009. the accelerator issue became known in january, 2010. the power steering issue just became public this week. i drove the car for two weeks after taking delivery to check it out for any manufacturing defects and to break it in. i did not notice any unusual behaviors for any of these problems while driving around town during this break-in period. however, i did notice when i was on the interstate while delivering the car to my daughter that the electrically-assisted power steering had an unusual vagueness to it. the car felt like it was being buffeted by high wind or turbulence from following a tractor-trailer too closely, even though the wind was calm and there were no trucks within one mile of me. as i made very minor course corrections as the road curved or to change lanes, it felt like the steering was being over-boosted, which caused a bigger path correction than intended or expected. then i got a similar reaction in the opposite direction when i tried to correct the over-correction. i think it would be fair to say that the steering wheel felt as if it was connected to the front wheels with a rope. the car has goodyear eagle rs-a tires; i have had several sets of these tires of different sizes in the past, and don't believe they are a problem. i have driven other vehicles with electrically-boosted power steering and and i don't recall such behavior. indeed, i have a class b cdl to drive motorcoaches and the older ones with over 1/2 million miles on them have more direct steering. this situation has not caused an accident; i just want to weigh in on the potential problem. i have offered my daughter another car to drive, but she insists on driving the corolla. *tr | |||
| 08/05/2009 | 125 | 1 | |
| 2010 toyota corolla loose driver's side floormat between lodged between brake pedal and accelerator causes car to accelerate while trying to stop. already caused two rear-end collisions. factory-provided floor mat and holddown clips were never installed by the factory or the dealer. we were unsuccessful in getting any help from toyota sales, usa, or rice toyota, local dealer. *tr | |||