Toyota Prius Brakes Now A Problem

10:12 am EST February 3rd, 2010 | Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Great.

Toyota Motor Corp.’s Prius hybrid is prompting complaints over its brake system, though accounts differed over the size and gravity of the problem, according to reports.

Toyota said Wednesday that it had received ‘dozens’ of complaints about the car’s brakes, various news reports said.

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4 Responses to “Toyota Prius Brakes Now A Problem”

  1. justadood says:
    February 3, 2010 at 12:14 pm

    Hypochondria much?

  2. Crusty Dem says:
    February 3, 2010 at 12:34 pm

    Toyota is screwed. Tens of billions of dollars over a 1 in a million defect. Anybody remember this happening to Audi about 20 years ago?

    Alternative explanation – when you gas pedal is always stuck on, you use the brakes more..

  3. dp says:
    February 4, 2010 at 12:03 am

    This would be a nothing story except for unrelated recall. “Dozens” of customers complained? There is probably a million or more Prius on the road. I challenge any volume manufacturer not to have a dozen complaints out of millions made.

  4. justadood says:
    February 4, 2010 at 1:49 pm

    yeah, the Audi5000 (?) issue….had a next-door neighbor that whacked their garage-door when the accelerator floored when shifting to ‘D’.

    The real problem here isn’t that Toyota had a problem, but how they chose to handle the problem. that ‘handling’ opened Pandora’s Box, and now they’re well and truly hosed.

    hope they can pull this out—I have a Prius (works fine, thankyouverymuch), and don’t want to see Toyota bite it figuratively, before I manage to pay it off or run out the Warranty…..