Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Corolla Recall

Corolla Recall

Corolla Recall : Toyoda, president of the company says that the auto industry is ‘ready to respond’ to the power steering Corolla complaints. Toyota’s chief of operations for U.S. forces preparing to hold hearings in Congress.
Reports from Tokyo – and declared that Toyota considering recall of the popular Corolla model secondary, and the President Akio Toyoda, the company said on Wednesday its full support to the President of the company’s U.S. operations, who said he would not attend hearings on Capitol Hill in Washington next week.

Toyoda, Executive Vice President Shinichi Sasaki, Toyota also confirmed to complete the preparations for the reforms little Sai – hybrid luxury sedan – and HS250h for Lexus in Japan.

The company’s dealers and an estimated 70% to 80% of the vehicles will be recalled model successfully by the end of this month, said Toyoda. Toyota to recall possible Corolla comes after customer complaints ofpower steering.

Toyoda Sasaki addressed the media at the headquarters of Toyota Motor Corporation in Tokyo a day after the United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigation into the fast-Japanese company to determine whether they acted quickly enough to address the problems with sudden acceleration.

The company says its investigations so far indicate that the electronic throttle control technology can not be accidentally stimulate acceleration, and a source of major concern in the U.S. market.

Toyota has 30 to 60 days to provide NHTSA with papers required to achieve them. There is a third-party investigation into the system will follow.

All models in the future, “said Toyoda, will include a brake, bypass system, which cuts the engine when both the accelerator and brake pedals are pressed simultaneously.

The new vehicles will also include improvement in the board event data recorder, a kind of “black box” for Toyota. “We have the ability to investigate were not fully satisfactory,” said Sasaki.

Toyoda said he had full confidence in Toyota’s North America president, Yoshimi Inaba, who added that he would appear before the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee in Washington on Feb. 24. Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives held hearings in the next day.

Inaba Toyoda was “the highest level of personal trust,” said Toyoda, and it is “qualified to respond to questions and concerns of members of Congress …. and we will give our full support to those in the hearings.”

Toyoda, grandson of the founder of the company, and spoke briefly about the possibility he would travel to the United States

To respond to what he described as “a misunderstanding in the press,” Toyoda said: “I’m not saying I will not go to the United States and I have a modified schedule to prepare for my visit … but can not be specified.”

Sasaki said Toyota “is ready to respond” and wait for information from the NHTSA on the Corolla. He said the company is aware of the “under 100″ complaints and trying to narrow the causes.

Traders has begun notifying customers to remember on February 5, Toyoda on the first official appearance at a news conference to address the company’s multi-remember. Toyota has recalled about 8.5 million vehicles in the world.

Toyota sales fell by 16% since the third week of January. To reduce the growing inventory of Toyota vehicles, many of which he was sitting in the dealers lot after the recall, the company plans to stop manufacturing operations in factories temporarily two of the United States.

Toyota will be the largest facility in North America, at the University of Georgetown, Kentucky, to be closed for a week in March and April. The Tundra truck plant in San Antonio will be closed on 26 February, and additional days in March.

Toyoda has announced his intention to head up the company’s newly created Special Committee of international quality, which will coordinate the quality of regional measures to control quality with a senior officer. The first meeting scheduled on March 30.

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