Another thing reputation, Toyota announced Wednesday the recall of 420,000 vehicles in the United States, part of a larger global recall.
Toyota is recalling worldwide 550,000 vehicles in total.
In the U.S., the owners of Toyota and Lexus vehicles 283 200 and 137,000 trucks in early January will be notified that their vehicles need to repair a problem of leadership possible.
Torrance-based Toyota U.S. sales and marketing center is reminiscent of dealing with the U.S..
Toyota’s reputation took a hit in the past two years, due to an enormous number of reminders to 14 million vehicles in this period, including reminded million last year for the acceleration problems.
The news comes a day after the largest automobile manufacturer in Japan, said that its profits slipped from July to September by 18.5 percent to $ 1 billion in sales plunge by a lack of parts of the tsunami disaster caused northern Japan.
He now faces the uncertainties of the floods in Thailand, where he has many suppliers and three assembly plants.
“It seems as if they look like they are fixing their problems and move on, they think of another, or a natural disaster or other point to make,” said Jesse Toprak, vice president of industry trends TrueCar.com, a car- Information on location in Santa Monica-based.
“What this means is that it be
more convincing to a fight for Toyota that consumers particularly unsure which brand to buy for their next purchase. “
The fact that this recall comes after the massive recalls earlier raises new questions about the already good reputation for the quality of Toyota, said Toprak.
“It’s not challenging. Well, there were all these questions and have the opportunity to thoroughly go through the vehicle, but they still have problems here and there”
The vehicles are affected by this recall, the Avalon 2004, 2004 and 2005, Camry, Highlander, Sienna, Solara, Highlander HV 2006, 2004 and 2005 ES330 and RX330 and RX400h 2006th
In some of these vehicles, the power steering pump belt for the release, which must lead the driver to take more effort. Toyota said it had no reports of accidents or injuries.
For more information about the recall is www.toyota.com / recall and www.lexus.com / recall or call 800-331-4331 available for Toyota and Lexus vehicles 800-255-3987.
