Why did toyota recall cars. To conduct a study that dragged on for 10 months to study toyota electronics. Some of the cars affected by the recall are listed below. Toyota is recalling 65 million vehicles worldwide over a faulty window switch that could short circuit and catch fire. Toyota did recall almost 8 million vehicles worldwide to correct issues with ill fitting floor mats that could trap the accelerator pedal and for adjustments to throttle pedals that had a tendency to stick or were slow to return to idle.
Toyota like all other car manufacturers standardizes components and uses these in more then one car type. A few days later nissan recalled 2 million cars for ignition problems. What did we learn on. And this week after two separate recalls covering 75 million vehicles toyota was forced.
Fast forward 5 years and you find gm recalling over 27 million cars in less than six months. Policies relating to how runaway cars are shut off in. Toyota wednesday said it was recalling about 58 million cars at home and abroad over potentially faulty air bag inflators made by takata. The toyota recall crisis started with a single horrifying car crash in southern california last august.
Spurred in part by the death of a teenage toyota driver the federal government is investigating why toyota delayed a recall of almost one million trucks and suvs over defective steering rods.