This Week in PriusChat - February 19th

malorn was the #1 poster last week. Surprised?

 

Do you always post this? Cool.

 

:cheer2:

 

I think I better get back to work.

 

That is weird, I thought it would be "Ignore List."

Bob Wilson

 

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

 

Great work guys. I have been following and enjoy listening.

 

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.

 

Perhaps you might care to post your question in the Gen II Prius forum?

 

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.