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Offline Sheila

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Re: The woman whose car was speeding down a Texas highway at 100 miles and hour
« Reply #30 on: February 26, 2010, 02:11:02 PM »
I know some people that have Toyotas, and they have never had any problems with them.
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Re: The woman whose car was speeding down a Texas highway at 100 miles and hour
« Reply #31 on: February 26, 2010, 03:22:44 PM »
Here is where i'm coming from on all this. Call me Paranoid but it seems really funny that toyotas problems are just  making big news and senate hearings!

My take is:

40% toyota's problems
30 % piling on by the state run media and obama motor co.
30% freeloading scam artist making their hay!
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Re: The woman whose car was speeding down a Texas highway at 100 miles and hour
« Reply #32 on: February 26, 2010, 05:14:28 PM »
So, I guess we are in agreement that labor built the cars as they were hired to do, and management gave the profits away in their gross mismanagement of the industry.

Never talked to anyone who made foreign cars, happy or otherwise, but you have, is that what you are saying?  If so, you know more about the foreign car manufacture than I do.

I did belong to the UAW some 40 plus years ago.  Worked in a (union) zinc die cast factory.  Day rate was three dollars an hour.  What a conundrum that was!  Nobody gave us ANYTHING with the exception of one guy who "got" something like black lung after 30 years on an abrasive polishing wheel.   Oh, there was another guy who got his arm sucked into a 30 h.p. buffing wheel.  He "got" a staph infection that never went away.  I had another friend who "got" a shot of molten aluminum on his leg.  He never walked right after that.

And don't think for a moment that I've forgotten that the current administration took $4500. from me and gave it to doctors, lawyers, and others to use as a down payment on their new $30,000. automobiles.

And lastly, none of this is directed personally at any of you, so don't get uptight with me, either.
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Re: The woman whose car was speeding down a Texas highway at 100 miles and hour
« Reply #33 on: February 26, 2010, 05:34:37 PM »
No one is getting uptite, its just that when you make a statement like:

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I wish people wouldn't buy those foreign cars.  They are unsafe I hear.   Plus, American workers earn lots less money making Hondas, etc, than Fords, etc., then they ship the profits off to Japan.  Do you get it yet?

People that dont agree with that will say so and have! You voiced your opinion and others responded, thats all. Its a Forum, Its how it works. Now if they start calling you fat or stupid, because of your opinion then its uptite time. Oh, and yes it happens at times.

 
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Re: The woman whose car was speeding down a Texas highway at 100 miles and hour
« Reply #34 on: February 26, 2010, 05:58:42 PM »
Well I have three Toyotas and I will buy another.  I found for the many I have owned that Toyota is about the best car/truck made. 

Oh yes, I do have a Toyota Tundra that the gas pedal stuck.  It was the floormat catching and it would only do that if you punched the gas all the way to the floor.  I have removed the extra set of floormats and problem is gone.
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Re: The woman whose car was speeding down a Texas highway at 100 miles and hour
« Reply #35 on: February 26, 2010, 07:50:12 PM »
Enjoying my third Toyota PU, when I run it into the ground, I'll get another...best trucks I have ever owned and over 45 years of driving, I've driven many a Ford, Chevy, Dodge, ect. These things are dependable, first one I had for 11 years, tune-up, oil change, one battery, and one water pump. Second one, nothing ever went wrong, and this one I have had for 9 years...no problem. so there ya go....
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Re: The woman whose car was speeding down a Texas highway at 100 miles and hour
« Reply #36 on: February 27, 2010, 02:08:40 AM »
This morning I took my wife's Camry for a drive in the country.  From a dead stop I shoved the gas to the floor in Drive, took the tack to the red line and easily shoved the thing into neutral.  Yep, it surely ain't rocket science. 
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Re: The woman whose car was speeding down a Texas highway at 100 miles and hour
« Reply #37 on: February 27, 2010, 02:31:38 AM »
OK, the big rigs have the same kind of control system, so they are subject to the same kind of problems as the cars.  The differance is the drivers.  The Pros that drive the big rigs would simply shut off the engine and apply the brakes, no big deal.  A ditzy woman driving a car will panic and just hold onto the steering wheel and scream.  Remembering too late to step on the brakes. 

As for reading the owners manual, have you ever met a woman that has read one.  Actually I have met a lot of men that has not read one.

Now for the hearings before congress.  That is a scam and an injustice.  That member of congress named Lee that suggested the government should take over Toyota Of America should be impeached.  I look at it as a means of cutting down on the compatition and making Government Motors number one again.

Toyotas are made right here in America, just like Honda and Mitsubishi.  My son and I got into and argument about who's vehicle was more Americian, His Eclipse or my F-150.  I lost my Ford truck was built in Canada, with parts supplied by Canadian and Mexician plants.  His Eclipse was built in either Indiana or Illinois, with parts supplied by Americian firms.  I had to go buy metric Torx bits to work on the front drive assembly on my Ford Truck.
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Re: The woman whose car was speeding down a Texas highway at 100 miles and hour
« Reply #38 on: February 27, 2010, 02:36:37 AM »
Well, my '04 GMC is throttle by wire. The car companies went to it for emissions - when you mash the gas it dumped a lot of air into the engine and you got a blip on the emissions output. It's a lot easier to control that when the computer opens the throttle. And yeah the heavy Diesel trucks have had it for years.
I don't know about the new electronic transmissions but on the old TH350 and 700R4 / 4L60 there was a governor override on reverse - it wouldn't engage unless you were under X miles per hour.
My wife got a '09 Toyota Venza (so far no recall.) In the year we've had it I had one problem - the drivers side sun visor would fall down by itself. That's IT. Yes it's throttle by wire and push button start but the gearshift is still manual select on the automatic transmission. Dad's 78, he's had a string of American pickups but his current one is a Texas-made Tundra.
IMHO there is an electronic problem that Toyota isn't fessing up to. But it's masked and made worse by the rash of "uncontrolled acceleration" incidents since the media started over-reporting it.
There have been 1200 complaints on Chevy Cobalts losing the electric power steering boost - no outrage on that since it's Government Motors.
And the transplant Asian factories pay a decent wage, that's one reason the unions have a hard time getting workers to sign on.
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