Whistleblower lawsuit says serious auto defect reports altered at Toyota-GM California plant

the new v6 engines had some issues with oil leaks around the timing cover, DH saw a number of those. he never saw any of that other stuff mentioned there. aside from the usual steering wheel alignment... no vehicle comes from the manufacturer perfectly aligned.

 

Sounds like it's not just the American workers having trouble embracing the Toyota way, but the American Management continueing the same old same old Big 3 management principles. I guess Toyota Japan needs to do a little housecleaning at the U.S. plant.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Godiva @ Nov 22 2007, 01:16 PM) [snapback]542941[/snapback]</div>

Toyota Japan manages Nummi.

Part of the problem is that Toyota workers are given bonuses when they don't produce defective cars. Therefore, they don't report defects. And that's why there was a rash of collapsing steering columns in Asian market Toyotas... workers wanted bonuses.

 

galaxee are you referring to the new gen GR series v6?

my tacoma has a 1gr-fe no problems but i just recently saw a good amount of trans fluid on the floor.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(statultra @ Nov 22 2007, 09:54 PM) [snapback]543065[/snapback]</div>

yes. is your tacoma a 2wd or 4wd?

 

There's the problem: The plant is run jointly by GM and Toyota. Toyota ought to know better than to do anything jointly with a crap company like GM. The only really good car GM ever built, they crushed them all. It's probably just as well they'll never build the Volt, because I'd buy one and it would probably turn out to be defective.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Jonnycat26 @ Nov 22 2007, 06:27 PM) [snapback]543059[/snapback]</div>

How do you know this? Can you point me to this "rash of collapsing steering columns in Asian market Toyotas" and point me to the documents that claim that this is due to workers not reporting defects? For all we know, whatever defect or recall you refer to could be due to supplier problems and impossible to catch at assembly time.

If it affected any models here in the US, I can probably dig up the correspondence and documentation between NHTSA and Toyota.

Is this another one of your claims that you try to state as fact when in fact you have nothing to back it up?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(cwerdna @ Nov 25 2007, 10:11 PM) [snapback]544079[/snapback]</div>

Is one million a rash, or just a nasty itch?

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlebus...UTOS-TOYOTA.xml

Ah, story isn't available anymore... but you can always search right here, on priuschat, for 'toyota one million recall'.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Jonnycat26 @ Nov 26 2007, 04:38 AM) [snapback]544197[/snapback]</div>

Yes, I'm aware of the one million recalled Toyotas worldwide. As usual, it seems that your statements are just made up information and assertions that you try to pass off as facts. Go to http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/problems...ecallsearch.cfm and search for campaign number 06V188000 then click on Document Search. In particular, http://nhthqnwws111.odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/acms...06V188-1283.PDF is of interest.

The issue is not that the steering columns could collapse nor does it seem to have ANYTHING to do w/improper assembly nor anything that could've been caught at assembly time.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(cwerdna @ Nov 26 2007, 02:21 PM) [snapback]544314[/snapback]</div>

Not only are the Corollas and the Matrix's coming out of that plant some of the most reliable vehicles out there, but this plant has won numerous awards for its quality, and it exceeds most of the North American plants, including those of BMW and Mercedes in terms of build quality reports.

I think this lady is either opportunistic or has a case of the crazies.