REPORT: Toyota may offer to fix 4 million accelerator pedals

REPORT: Toyota may offer to fix 4 million accelerator pedals

Filed under: Recalls, Safety, Lexus, Toyota

While Toyota maintains its position that recent accelerator issues have only to do with floor mats, the company has reportedly agreed to "make changes to gas pedals in certain U.S. models under an agreement with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration." That means that 3.8 million Toyota products - among which are the Camry, Avalon, Prius, Tacoma, Tundra, and Lexus IS250, IS350, ES350 - will be recalled to address the accelerators.

With negotiations said to be ongoing between the NHTSA and Toyota, the automaker hasn't said what those changes will be, nor has it stated exactly when the recall will begin. According to Reuters, Toyota has a $5.6 billion slush fund to pay for recalls so the repair costs, while sure to be intergalactic, shouldn't affect earnings. The company can only hope now that the rumors, current lawsuits, other current lawsuits, yet-to-be-filed lawsuits, and the 24-hour news cycle don't do the kind of damage that is much worse than merely financial.

[Source: Reuters, MarketWatch]REPORT: Toyota may offer to fix 4 million accelerator pedals originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.



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Waste of money......COMMON SENSE would fix this problem without the 5.6 billion dollar bill

Simple fix. Use rubber mats instead of plastic or take some cutters to the existing ones. Remove the section snagging the gas pedal. Easy. Takes 1 minutes and saves lives. lol

not worth much your life if you can't just neutral the car...

still, I'm saddened by the rest of his family, wife and daughter, the other guy was no help either

You can shift into neutral, even in the new Lexus. The brake still works too.

Oh boy, putting tie straps on driver's floor mats to the seat rails as a semi-permanent fix or removal of the mat and now this? WTF!!! Theres still many ppl "stacking" floormats when they shouldn't on the affected vehicles but also the owners are also denying to have the dealership remove or do a semi-permanent fix on their vehicles. Some owners dont have the original floormats either and they want to make a complaint to TMC.