Toyota recalls 550,000 cars for steering issue

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  1. cwerdna

    cwerdna Senior Member

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    (Doesn't affect any Priuses.)
    Toyota recalls 550,000 cars for steering issue - Yahoo! News
    I found it on Yahoo Finance for the symbol TM but it's migrated to the front page of Yahoo now. I wonder if the media will make a big deal about this one...
     
    #1 cwerdna, Nov 9, 2011
  2. zenMachine

    zenMachine Just another Onionhead

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    Just heard it on the radio. Here we go.
     
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  3. jdenenberg

    jdenenberg EE Professor

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    At least our Prii are not involved in this defect. We have electric power steering - no belt to come off.

    JeffD
     
    #3 jdenenberg, Nov 9, 2011
  4. usbseawolf2000

    usbseawolf2000 HSD PhD

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    Better to be safe than sorry.
     
    #4 usbseawolf2000, Nov 9, 2011
  5. hill

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    Hard to steer, eh? Obviously the AP writer never paralell parked a 1973 Econoline with wide tires, that had NO power steering.
    ;)
     
    #5 hill, Nov 9, 2011
  6. qbee42

    qbee42 My other car is a boat

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    What if the electrons lose their spin?

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