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#5031 of 5628 Re: 2007 Toyota Camry [houston_man] by nmt001

Feb 14, 2010 (1:25 pm)

Replying to: houston_man (Feb 14, 2010 6:18 am)
Congratulations for being 'lucky' enough to be owning a 2007 Camry without unintended acceleration so far.
 
Statistics speaks fairer than the testimony of just a few individuals regardless of their motives.
Year [Speed Control] [Pedal] [Cruise Control] [Cable or Linkage] = Speed Control Related Complaints
1990 7+8+0+1=16
1991 5+1+0+0=6
1992 7+4+2+2=15
1993 12+4+0+1=17
1994 11+2+2+2=17
1995 8+1+4+1=14
1996 18+2+11+1=32
1997 13+2+1+2=18
1998 32+12+4+7=55
1999 31+8+1+2=42
2000 39+11+2+3=55
2001 16+4+0+1=21
2002 135+20+4+5=164
2003 121+19+3+0=143
2004 79+18+2+1=100
2005 75+9+3+0=87
2006 39+1+0+0=40
2007 143+24+15+0=173
2008 28+1+1+0=30
2009 56+5+0+0=61
 
If I were you, I would be practicing how to stop the 2007 Camry safely by shifting to neutral just in case the apparently normal 2007 Camry suddenly accelerates up to 100 mph like the Lexus under the professional care of a rental car company before being rented to the hapless CHP officer.

#5032 of 5628 Re: Toyota agreed to replace my 2007 with new 2010 at no cost [samkhan1] by notmybmw

Feb 14, 2010 (2:26 pm)

Replying to: samkhan1 (Feb 13, 2010 10:15 am)
Take the 2010 replacement and RUN!!
 
If you're very old (i.e. over 40) you know that this is virtually unheard of in the industry. (If you're UNDER forty....just ask around!)
 
Big car manufacturers would almost rather go bankrupt than "replace" a car. (That's how/why 'lemon laws' got started in the first place: car companies NEVER took back bad cars......they just fixed 'em and fixed 'em and fixed 'em...even though they never did get FIXED!)
 
Take it, buddy!

#5033 of 5628 Re: 2007 Camry- most complained related to speed control [kiawah] by nmt001

Feb 14, 2010 (5:09 pm)

Replying to: kiawah (Feb 14, 2010 6:26 am)
You will let me talk to myself on this? Six other members besides you responded directly to my posts since I talk about the Toyota recall. Please don’t disrespect other members like they don’t exist at all just because they don’t have or don’t brag about having an engineer credential like you do. Even if no members response, I would be talking to Toyota. If you think talking to Toyota is talking to myself, your attitude towards complaint and criticism is no different from that of the apathetic Toyota administrators.
 
If Toyota stock goes down further because Toyota loses in the lawsuits involving unintended acceleration, a Toyota investor would not be happy about it.
If Toyota stock goes up because Toyota with it’s huge financial resources is able to win the lawsuits by convincing the judges to issue judgments that blame the Toyota owners for stepping on the gas pedal by mistake just because Toyota says so, a Toyota investor with a conscience would not be happen either because the hapless Toyota customers and their families are victimized yet again.
Of course, there are investors who would care less if the hapless Toyota owners are blamed unjustifiably for causing fatal accidents by stepping on the gas pedal instead of the brake or even put in jail as a scapegoat for Toyota, as long as the Toyota stock goes up again.
So until Toyota stock goes further down after being sentenced to compensate the victims or victims’ families and Toyota starts to learn from its mistakes, I would not say that Toyota stock is a good investment for investors.
 
I was talking about people who buy Toyota stock lately as an individual investor with the hope that Toyota will win the lawsuits related to unintended acceleration. I was not talking about group investment like 401K. Nice try using deceptive argument.
 
I was talking about the large number of complaints about vehicle speed control on 2007 Camry, an overwhelming majority of which were related to unintended acceleration. You were the one who answered my post #5016 about the blip in 2007 Camry in your post #5019 and mentioned that the problem was fixed with a TSB. So you, not me, were the one who tried to confuse the issue of unintended acceleration with the issue of acceleration hesitation.
 
I’m enjoying my ride alright. But thankfully it’s not a Toyota.
 
I wish Toyota would not make it a standard practice to blame their hapless customers in fatal accidents for stepping on the gas pedal by mistake and would deal with all possible causes of unintended acceleration in their vehicles seriously even if it would mean having to expose more defects of their DBW system and that Toyota stock will go further down before come back up.

#5035 of 5628 Re: Toyota agreed to replace my 2007 with new 2010 at no cost [samkhan1] by nmt001

Feb 15, 2010 (5:04 am)

Replying to: samkhan1 (Feb 13, 2010 10:15 am)
I suggest that you go to the NHTSA website to read about the complaints of 2010 Camry owners before you decide if you should accept the offer from the dealership of replacing your lemon 2007 Camry with a brand new 2010 Camry.
 
http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/complaints/
 
In my previous posts, I suggested people to choose options relating to Vehicle Speed Control when checking out complaints. However, I just found out that the complainants may complain about unintended acceleration under electrical system, power train, fuel system, gasoline, unknown or other as well as vehicle speed control. Therefore, I suggest you NOT to select any specific component so that you can read all complaints related to unintended acceleration as well as other problems related to the 2010 Camry.
 Click on Get Summary to read the complaints.
 
I had a 2007 Camry with acceleration hesitation like yours. I traded it in after owning it for a very short time and I’m glad that I decided not to buy another Toyota ever again.
 
It was a pain in the neck to deal with acceleration hesitation of the 2007 Camry 4cyl when merging onto the freeway. However, I consider the unintended acceleration as reported by many 2010 Camry owners posts much greater danger to the life of the driver as well as other people on the road.
 
Hope you will make the right decision.

#5036 of 5628 Re: Toyota agreed to replace my 2007 with new 2010 at no cost [nmt001] by 210delray

Feb 15, 2010 (9:22 am)

Replying to: nmt001 (Feb 15, 2010 5:04 am)
I'd counter that you have to take every complaint with some degree of skepticism. Some people will complain about anything, and others will blame the vehicle when maybe, just maybe, they made a mistake while driving.

#5037 of 5628 Toyota Recalls 2010 Camry by nmt001

Feb 15, 2010 (6:18 pm)

If you check out the complaints against 2010 Camry on the NHTSA website you can see that there are 46 complaints. Some complaints are filed under different components
 20 Camry owners are willing to provide their Vehicle Identification Numbers (VIN) for the complaint.
A large numbers of the complaints have something to do with unintended acceleration.
 
If the 2010 Camry owners experience only minor problems without causing accidents, I don’t think they would reveal their Vehicle Identification Number and then lie or exaggerate on the internet that there is something seriously wrong with their 2010 Camry. To do so would mean depreciation in the resale value of their 2010 Camrys.
I have no doubt that those 2010 Camry owners who provide the VINs have experience serious problem(s) that prompt them to make the complaints.
On the other hand, I am very skeptical of Toyota’s claim that ONLY floor mat entrapment and stuck gas pedal are to blame for the huge numbers of complaints of unintended acceleration. I also despise Toyota for blaming some vulnerable Toyota owners for stepping on the wrong pedal and speeding the vehicle to 90 mph or more on the highway before crashing in spite of the fact that it is very unlikely for drivers to step on the wrong pedal while cruising on the highway as compared to starting or parking a vehicle in the parking lot. It is even far more unlikely for drivers driving on the highway to keep on stepping on the gas pedal by mistake long enough to speed the vehicle up to 90 mph or more without realizing his or her foot is on the wrong pedal while trying to slow down or stop the vehicle.
 
For comparison, there are only 3 complaints against the 2010 Accord by two people in the NHTSA website. One provides the VIN. The other did not. None of the complaints has to do with unintended acceleration.
 
The profiles of Toyota owners are not much different from that of Honda owners. There is no reason at all to support the crazy idea that only 2010 Toyota Camry owners would be prone to mistake the gas for the brake while the Honda Accord owners would not. There is also no reason at all to support the crazy idea that only 2010 Toyota Camry owners would like to bad-mouth and depreciate the value of their new cars while the Honda Accord owners would not.
 
OK, if you are still not convinced that there is something wrong with the 2010 Camry, then may be a recall of the 2010 Camry would.
It’s no joke. Toyota has issued a recall of 7,300 of its 2010 Camry on Feb 9, 2010.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/10/business/main6192754.shtml

#5038 of 5628 Re: Toyota Recalls 2010 Camry [nmt001] by 210delray

Feb 15, 2010 (6:40 pm)

Replying to: nmt001 (Feb 15, 2010 6:18 pm)
OK, if you are still not convinced that there is something wrong with the 2010 Camry, then may be a recall of the 2010 Camry would.
It’s no joke. Toyota has issued a recall of 7,300 of its 2010 Camry on Feb 9, 2010.
 
Funny, but this cited recall has nothing to do with sudden acceleration and amounts to maybe a week's worth of production!
 
And I don't think there's anything seriously wrong with the '10 Camry other than the ongoing efforts regarding the floor mats and the "sticky" gas pedal. Sean Kane claims my 2004 and 2005 Camrys are prone to accelerating wildly out of control also because of the electronics/software.
 
I'm hardly cringing in fear. The cars have a total of nearly 115K miles between them and I've never experienced the slightest "blip" in the throttle mechanisms. So call me skeptical.
 
I'm sure there will be a ton of complaints about future Camrys now that the cat is out of the bag, so to speak. Every incident will be blamed on sudden acceleration.

#5039 of 5628 Re: 2007 Camry- most complained related to speed control [nmt001] by nmt001

Feb 15, 2010 (9:29 pm)

Replying to: nmt001 (Feb 13, 2010 5:07 am)
Correction for post #5020:
If you did, that means you (should not have been) extremely happy with a Camry having a potentially dangerous gas pedal. Ignorance is not bliss, at least not for those owners who got into an accident because the gas pedal stuck.
If you did not, then you should even when you are extremely happy with the performance of your 2007 Camry after TSB.

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