One more quick Toyota story, it's Friday. I have a 1999 Toyota Sienna and two months out of warranty the power sliding door quit working. I took it to the shop and after telling me it was going to cost $1,200 to replace the "computer" (read circuit board) I called Toyota and asked them if they would honor the warranty since this was a common problem with other Toyota's. They asked me if I owned or ever owned any other Toyota's. I told them "no this is my first" to which they replied, "We'd fix it but since you are not a 'loyal' Toyota customer we won't". How's that for great customer service and image building? This is the last Toyota I'll ever own because I REALLY am not a "loyal customer" or at least I'm not now. Happy Friday ;-) KennyB -----Original Message----- From: Croslin, Robert [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 8:09 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] More on Toyota In early 2006, we lemon-lawed our 2005 ES330 Lexus for Unintended Acceleration. Toyota put us through hell. After going through the arbitration process in which they denied the claim, I began the actual LL process with the state of Florida. Within hours, Toyota was in touch with us and we settled on replacement with a 2007 ES350, so the actual LL process was never completed. At the handover, they then told me the car would be quarantined , sent to Jacksonville and disassembled to find the problem. "You guys just spent months denying a problem and now you're going to tear the car apart looking for it?" All my filings, including one with the NHSTA who never responded, were for Unintended Acceleration due to Sensor and ECM Malfunction" and documented with cause and effect schematics. To date, the replacement ES350 has been the best car we've ever owned and they were so aggressive in stopping the LL process with the state, that we actually came out way, way ahead financially on the transaction. Here's some other links, including the letter from the house subcommittee, a schematic on their throttle, and a related story on how Ford used similar techniques with the Pinto years ago. Enjoy Bob Croslin The Nielsen Company House Subcommittee Letter http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_111/20100222/lentz_letter_2010_2_2 2.pdf Bnet link http://blogs.bnet.com/business-news/?p=175&tag=nl.e713 Pinto Study http://motherjones.com/politics/1977/09/pinto-madness?page=1 ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please contact helpdesk at x2960 or [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -----------------------------------------------------