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From: Wayne on 3 Jul 2010 11:04 "ben91932" <benteaches(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:9828270c-1d94-410f-b92e-3fce0106c562(a)v13g2000prn.googlegroups.com... On Jul 1, 12:40 am, john <johngd...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday about 270,000 cars sold worldwide -- > including luxury Lexus sedans -- have potentially faulty engines, the Which is precisely why I own a Toyota. The article quoted says that 90,000 cars were exported from Japan, not with bad engines but a stalling problem. I'd bet a months pay that Ford does 90,000 warantee repairs for stalling a month, and that they have for years. Toyota is pro-active on defects, which I much prefer to US mfgr's attempts to ignore issues and hope for the best. I dunno, John, but all your negative posts about these cars makes me wonder if a Tundra poisoned your wife and raped your daughter or visa versa... Ben *********** Exactly. I switched to Toyota after owning a Ford that stalled about 4 times per day, and Ford couldn't find the problem.
From: C. E. White on 3 Jul 2010 18:30 "ben91932" <benteaches(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:9828270c-1d94-410f-b92e-3fce0106c562(a)v13g2000prn.googlegroups.com... > Toyota is pro-active on defects, You certainly have a different vision of being pro-active. As far as I can tell Toyota has mostly been pro-active when it comes to hiding defects. Toyota has a long history of working very hard to cover up defects. They have repeatedly screwed there Customers. Go read the history of the truck ball joint problems, the rusty frames, the sludge prone engines, the defective throttles, the rollover prone 4Runners with weak roofs, etc., etc. In every case they did everything they could to avoid taking care of their Customers. They repeatedly lied to NHTSA investigators, tried to deflect responsibility for the probelms by blaming them on suppliers or Customers or "horror" internet rumors." Any fair accounting would rank Toyota near the bottom when it comes to Customer service. Just becase you had a good Toyota doesn't mean they haven't built some real POS's. And just becasue they are now being forced to own up to a few of the more obvious problems, doesn't mean they have suddenly decided totake care of teir Customers. Come back in ten years. If they truly have decided to forgo their past practies, then maybe they deserve the praise you are heaping on them. Ed
From: hls on 4 Jul 2010 09:40 "C. E. White" <cewhite3(a)mindspring.com> wrote in message news:IfKdnfvMR8CBJ7LRnZ2dnUVZ_tWdnZ2d(a)earthlink.com... > > "ben91932" <benteaches(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > news:9828270c-1d94-410f-b92e-3fce0106c562(a)v13g2000prn.googlegroups.com... > >> Toyota is pro-active on defects, > > You certainly have a different vision of being pro-active. > Ed Clearly, I do have a different vision. I owned GM products for years. Each of them had some shitto defect that GM dodged. Toyota has not treated me that way at all.
From: C. E. White on 4 Jul 2010 15:17 "hls" <hls(a)nospam.nix> wrote in message news:9Z-dnePBxLT6Eq3RnZ2dnUVZ_jydnZ2d(a)giganews.com... > > "C. E. White" <cewhite3(a)mindspring.com> wrote in message > news:IfKdnfvMR8CBJ7LRnZ2dnUVZ_tWdnZ2d(a)earthlink.com... >> >> "ben91932" <benteaches(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >> news:9828270c-1d94-410f-b92e-3fce0106c562(a)v13g2000prn.googlegroups.com... >> >>> Toyota is pro-active on defects, >> >> You certainly have a different vision of being pro-active. > Ed > > Clearly, I do have a different vision. I owned GM products for years. > Each of them had some shitto defect that GM dodged. > Toyota has not treated me that way at all. Hopefully our good fortune will continue. Ed
From: ben91932 on 6 Jul 2010 08:40
On Jul 3, 3:30 pm, "C. E. White" <cewhi...(a)mindspring.com> wrote: > "ben91932" <benteac...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:9828270c-1d94-410f-b92e-3fce0106c562(a)v13g2000prn.googlegroups.com... > > > Toyota is pro-active on defects, > > You certainly have a different vision of being pro-active. As far as I can > tell Toyota has mostly been pro-active when it comes to hiding defects. I am certain that Toyota has made mistakes, as have every mfgr. The point is that from my experience they are much better than the others. Ben |