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26/03/2010
Toyota Recall Continues
Toyota continues to make strong progress with its UK recall programme with more than two thirds of the total vehicles affected successfully fixed in just six weeks.
At the same time sales of new Toyota vehicles remain healthy and an overwhelming majority of customers have declared themselves satisfied with the recall procedure.
By today almost 119,000 vehicles have received the adjustment to avoid the risk of a sticking accelerator pedal, equivalent to more than 66% of the total number that are subject to the recall.
An even greater proportion of Toyota Prius have had their braking software amended: more than 6,800 cars or about 70% of the total.
The rapid progress has been made possible thanks to the commitment and hard work of the teams at Toyota’s network of more than 200 dealerships around the country.
Toyota is one of Britain’s leading car manufacturers and earlier this month announced that members will return to full-time working in April at its Burnaston factory in Derbyshire, where it builds Avensis and Auris models, and at its engine plant at Deeside, North Wales.
Immediately prior to the change in work pattern, the week commencing 29 March has been designated for non-production working at the site to allow for preparations to ready the plant for volume manufacturing of Toyota’s new full hybrid Auris HSD.
This ground-breaking new car will be launched this summer and it will be the first hybrid model from any manufacturer to be built in Europe. Its petrol engine will be supplied by the Deeside factory.
A second non-production week will follow before the resumption of full time production in the week commencing 12 April.
(PR)
At the same time sales of new Toyota vehicles remain healthy and an overwhelming majority of customers have declared themselves satisfied with the recall procedure.
By today almost 119,000 vehicles have received the adjustment to avoid the risk of a sticking accelerator pedal, equivalent to more than 66% of the total number that are subject to the recall.
An even greater proportion of Toyota Prius have had their braking software amended: more than 6,800 cars or about 70% of the total.
The rapid progress has been made possible thanks to the commitment and hard work of the teams at Toyota’s network of more than 200 dealerships around the country.
Toyota is one of Britain’s leading car manufacturers and earlier this month announced that members will return to full-time working in April at its Burnaston factory in Derbyshire, where it builds Avensis and Auris models, and at its engine plant at Deeside, North Wales.
Immediately prior to the change in work pattern, the week commencing 29 March has been designated for non-production working at the site to allow for preparations to ready the plant for volume manufacturing of Toyota’s new full hybrid Auris HSD.
This ground-breaking new car will be launched this summer and it will be the first hybrid model from any manufacturer to be built in Europe. Its petrol engine will be supplied by the Deeside factory.
A second non-production week will follow before the resumption of full time production in the week commencing 12 April.
(PR)
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