This past week on PriusChat has been just about all-recall, all-the-time. Yes, it's getting old for all of us. Let's hope next week's Week In Review gives us some new topics. Week of February 19th: Nissan announces Leaf purchase process, releases Winter Olympics commercial What Drives Us - Podcast Episode 4 Prius Hatch opens too high - Major safety concern! (Satire) 2010 Prius Mudguards now available in the PriusChat Shop! [URL='http://hybridscoop.com/news/what-drives-us-podcast-episode-5'][U][COLOR=rgb(28, 64, 110)]What Drives Us - Podcast Episode 5[/COLOR][/U][/URL] [COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)][SIZE=12px][FONT=Arial][COLOR=rgb(51, 51, 51)][I][B]Most Viewed Threads[/B][/I][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR] 1 How Powerful the Brakes Really are... 1,613 2 Is this cut throat move too cut throat? 1,602 3 Two kinds of owners. 1,480 4 Prius 2010 - After Recall Fix - Brake Issue Tested 1,459 5 What really bothers me about the recall 1,253 6 To Fix ... or Not To Fix? 1,179 7 December 2009, Fatal Prius Accident 1,169 8 Anyone received notices in the mail? 959 9 GM: Lutz watch 878 10 Possible Increased Incentives/Warranties 854 Hottest Threads (Most Replied) 1 Is this cut throat move too cut throat? 68 2 How Powerful the Brakes Really are... 59 3 GM: Lutz watch 57 4 Two kinds of owners. 44 5 What really bothers me about the recall 43 6 Anyone think that the Touring will be worth more $$$ in the future 36 7 Delay in the release of the Li-battery based Prius? 30 8 After all these recalls, will you still buy a Toyota product in the future? 28 9 Is Hyundai poised to beat Toyota? 28 10 December 2009, Fatal Prius Accident 28 Top Thanked Members 1 chogan2 38 2 bwilson4web 25 3 qbee42 19 4 daniel 18 5 ken1784 17 6 F8L 16 7 dogfriend 16 8 Sandollars 13 9 Patrick Wong 11 10 cwerdna 11 Top Posters 1 malorn 126 2 apriusfan 122 3 qbee42 114 4 Tideland Prius 101 5 daniel 91 6 bwilson4web 84 7 Trebuchet 76 8 hyo silver 76 9 F8L 73 10 hockeydad 72
Yeah, I think it's a forum software function. As for the number of posts, it's quality, not quantity that matters. (that's my story and I'm sticking to it)
Well, as long as new stories about new recalls of Toyota models continue to percolate up to the surface, the recall theme would seem to have a continuing life span. My prediction - next week will be about Akio Toyoda's visit to the U.S. Congress and whether the Corolla gets to be recalled. For owners of Gen II Priuses, it will be keep on sucking up.
Well, it doesn't look like the week of Feb. 22nd will be any less 'defect focused': Runaway Camry crashes raise ?huge red flag? - Washington Post- msnbc.com Maybe Toyota should just recall every car they have sold since say, 2005? That would certainly put a stop to the endless set of recall stories.
Nice pic of 68 west but where is all of the Bleepin snow. The ramp sign whould have looked better if it pointed into U Motors Toyota on 119 north just north of eastend of 857. As steep but short in length. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...=NGRn0doOjMdQLxLdR3r4qg&cbp=12,338.73,,0,4.82
Looking for advice on correcting a rattle, in my 2006 Prius with package # 7, in the center of the dash, behind the Info screen or CD player.
I'd like to discuss some of the issues around the recall but frankly, I'm so burned out by the constant barrage that I don't even open those threads anymore.
Unfortunately, a rational, objective discussion of the issues around Toyota seems to not be possible. There is what appears to be a well-worn sequence of events to any posting about Toyota and recalls: 1. A thread is started. 2. If the thread is negative toward Toyota, either the messenger is trashed (posters with just 1 post count are automatically accused of being a TROLL) or the message is trashed (Gen II brake failures have been disproved sooo many times in the past; use the search function). 3. Depending on how strongly members feel about the statements made in 2. above, a cage match ensues and if there is a lot of spleen invested, the post count gets north of 5 pages. The same scenario plays out for OPs that are positive to ward Toyota, just less of a post count occurs, unless someone starts getting really inflammatory toward Toyota in their responses. Toyota is not helping the matter much either. Silence on the matter of problems with non-current (e.g. Gen II Prius) cars creates something of a festering sore that adds its own toxicity to the general climate. Which kind of gets back to your original observation about a constant barrage.
