Toyota has come up with a fix for their floor mat woes - a 6-inch zip tie and a warning to use common sense.

Toyota spokesman Brian Lyons told Automotive News: "We have reviewed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration what we're calling a semipermanent floor mat installation process, and we're providing these instructions to our dealers."

Dealers also are to attach a label to the wire tie warning dealers and customers to ensure that the mat is secured with restraining straps and not to stack one mat over another.

I just received word from a Toyota dealership that Toyota has put a "stop sale" on the Prius All-Weather floor mats. That basically means that Toyota dealerships across the country will not be receiving any new shipments of all-weather rubber mats until an undetermined future date. Dealerships have not been told that they can't sell any stock that they have on hand, so if you want a set before the snow/ice season kicks in this might be the time to buy.

Yesterday Toyota announced an impending recall on all driver's side floor mats for the 2004-2009 Prius. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has asked that any Gen 2 Prius owners take out any removable driver's floor mat and not replace it with another mat until Toyota comes up with a remedy.