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Replying to: havalongavalon (May 02, 2005 4:43 pm) Thanks. I suppose it takes folks like us to look past these stereotypes and know engineering excellence when we see it. The Prius is really loaded with complex new technology and is a hot seller, so I was shocked to read about the occasional but very serious, potentially very dangerous and expensive failures that are reported there. Whoa, this is troubling. What are these failures? Could you post some links to articles where you have read about such failures?
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Replying to: bushka (May 02, 2005 6:41 pm) "This agreement is between the Agreement Holder ("You" or "Your") specified in the Vehicle Service Agreement Information and Toyota Motor Insurance Services, Inc. ("TMIS")." Prior to receiving the agreement from Toyota I received a copy of the application that Toyota of Greenfield sent to Toyota. At the upper right hand corner is the Toyota Financial Services logo. At the bottom is this statement: "Toyota Financial Services is a service mark of Toyota Motor Insurance Services, Inc." johni
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| Bushka, I too have bought the $985 warranty from here and IT IS a Toyota product. | |
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Replying to: yurik (May 02, 2005 7:40 pm)
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Replying to: 3puttmax (May 02, 2005 7:30 pm) I'm afraid the picture you tried to insert did not appear in your post #5166 (at least it's not visible from my computer). You may want to try again. Sorry about that. I guess the procedure is not that simple... Best wishes, havalongavalon |
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Replying to: fdcapt2 (May 02, 2005 9:16 pm) Is this the one you are referring to? Would anyone happen to have any links for more information on this or any competing products?.
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Replying to: deanie (May 02, 2005 7:22 pm)  Ill check out the posts 2 get a closer look |
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Replying to: ryandse (May 02, 2005 7:43 pm) The Forum called Toyota Prius Owners: Problems & Solutions has over 200 entries that describe a great variety of bizzare problems, ranging in consequences from trivial to potentially disastrous. These problems often seem to be hard to diagnose, sometimes one-of-a-kind, not really systematic. When problems can be shown to be unique to a single car, the Lemon Law may apply and this has in fact been reported, for example, in post #128 who reported in Feb 2005 that: "I had a 2004 Prius for 6 months. I had a problem with the accelerator assembly. Toyota tried to fix it 5 times. I had to invoke the lemon law. Symptoms: As a accident evasive action I had to change lanes abruptly and accelerate full to go with the flow of traffic in the left lane. There would be a "Thump" and the acceleration would go the power of "IDLE" speed. This nearly caused two accidents as the car behind me did not see any brake lights but I was effectively braking hard. Once this happened the car would only go a maximum of 37 MPH! Toyota says the "codes" indicate the accelerator was in an "invalid position"! I checked all the forums and no one else had ever reported this problem. As a result of the lemon law I will be receiving a new 2005 Prius next week and of course will try "the maneuver" before accepting delivery.It seems to me that this would have come up with many other Prius drivers but since there was no reference in any forum I feel confident that it was truly just a lemon car. Other than this the Prius is my favorite car ever!!!!!!! 44-48 MPG average." If you read a number of these posts you will get the picture that although owners love their Prii, many have been putting up with very quirky behaviors and I would imagine that other owners who have been problem-free but are well-informed must feel a bit aprehensive about sudden problems that could come up at any time, such as a total loss of power in the middle of the freeway, which has been reported by some. Sorry to bring up this kind of news, but it does point out that even the most solid companies such as Toyota do run into troubles when they take the lead on innovation and bring out truly revolutionary new technologies, as with Prius. Best, havalongavalon |
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Replying to: ryandse (May 02, 2005 9:59 pm) Is this the one you are referring to? Would anyone happen to have any links for more information on this or any competing products?. Some weeks ago johni posted leads to an aftermarket system that he installed himself, and last week I installed a similar system, with great results. If you search this discussion for our nicknames and "sensors" you should quickly find these posts. havalongavalon
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