XPost: rec.autos.tech
From: demi@moore.net
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:52:39 -0500, clare@snyder.on.ca wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:19:55 -0500, "Mike Hunter"
> wrote:
>
>>You mean like cutting off the bottom of the accelerator?
>
>Temporary attempt to fix an unproven problem - better than doing
>nothing, IF it had been the problem.
>
>To this point in time there is NO PROOF the throttles are sticking.
>Much less any idea WHY or WHERE they are sticking.
>
>Yes, some cars have "run away" and some people have been killed - but
>no vehicle has had the throttle stick under controlled conditions or
>in the hands of a technician who can then determine what went wrong.
>
Nonsense. They just aired a story of a guy whose Toyota did the
"runaway" thing several times. The last time it did it he called the
Toyota dealer and said he was bringing it in and he did (by shifting
it in and out of gear as needed) and left it running for the tech to
look at. The tech verified that the throttle pedal was not stuck on
anything or sticking but the engine was racing and would not stop till
they shut the car off. Toyota KNOWS this is a REAL problem, not some
confusion on the customers part, or they would not have stopped
selling cars.
>VERY perplexing for the engineers, for sure.
>>
>>"hls" wrote in message
>>news:boydnQXttfoAyv3WnZ2dnUVZ_vSdnZ2d@giganews.com...
>>>
>>> "Hachiroku ????" wrote in message
>>>>
>>>> Instead of 'slowing down' when an error is realized, Toyota stops
>>>> production.
>>>>
>>>> Gm would do well to learn from this. Burning Fieros, CV joints wleded to
>>>> make a FWD engine a RWD engine, etc.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Mercedes did the same thing a few years ago with that ugly A class
>>> a few years ago. They stopped sales and stopped all manufacture until
>>> they got the engineering problem fixed. A lot better move, imo, than
>>> the bandaid approach.
>>
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