Safety Recall Rear Doors

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Notice showed up this morning.

 

This recall is showing in my app as well for my 23 XLE. They must have pushed this out just today. I was in the app under the health tab just yesterday and it was not there.

 

So the temporary solution is to have the car auto lock the doors when driving by turning the feature on in settings.

That's not the worst possible thing.

Hopefully the fix is ready sooner than later and supply of parts to mitigate are sent out in abundant supply.

 

The default behavior is for the vehicle to lock the doors when put into gear and unlock the doors when the vehicle is put into park. Check out the "Customization" section (8-2 I believe) in the owner's manual where it describes the defaults and different alternate settings you switch to. (There's also the ability to change the default of which doors unlock when opening the driver door, or how long you hold your hand by the drivers door to unlock all doors, or what the fob unlock button does, etc.)

 

Interestingly this function does not seem to exist in europe... wonder what kind of temporary solution they come up with here.

 

Expecting to incur $71 million in costs due to this recall and production suspended until this is resolved. Hopefully I’ll get my Prius before the price goes up!

 

From the story I read(from Reuters), it was unclear if the $71 million was to Toyota or to the maker of the door switch(Tokai Rika Co.).

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/toyota-recalls-prius-cars-halts-orders-due-door-handle-fault-2024-04-17/

 

That read as to the supplier to me, and that is what is what this one says:

Toyota Halts Prius Orders, Recalls 135K Hybrids in Japan Over Rear Door Handle Issue | Venture Capital Post

Can't be certain, of course - both could be translations from ambiguous Japanese.

There have been legal battles in the past over who ends up paying for recalls - like this one - but it sounds as if the supplier has folded immediately here.

I'm going to guess there was a clear spec from Toyota (an IP code?), some parts have been shown to not meet the spec, and Toyota claim the only correction needed is for the parts to meet the spec.

This is a pretty big supplier for all sorts of physical user-interface and cosmetic Toyota/Lexus components:

TOKAI RIKA CO., LTD.

I can imagine such a supplier would be inclined to just take it on the chin and not fight unless Toyota are clearly in the wrong - they're presumably massively reliant on Toyota's future business.

 

Really? That's interesting. I wonder why that's just not a thing in the european market. Seems like the smallest of things thats actually super convenient when you have kids especially. Lock plus child locks means there's no way the kids can ever mess with the doors lol

 

I was all set to get into one this weekend. My dealership called and said they got the stop sale yesterday and it might not open back up till as late as third quarter. That is very disappointing as my states EV rebate closes next month. Its funny though I did have an issue with a rear door not closing and then not opening during a test drive.

 

If they've stopped production, maybe it'll free up a few key fobs so I can get a 2nd one

 

I am so glad they rushed out this recall for a problem that no one here has complained or heard about. In the meantime, the battery debacle continues....

 

Or get more 19" tires supply into inventories. Wait until you get an unrepairable flat.

 

Remove the relevant fuse, apparently: Auton ovet saattavat aueta itsestään – Toyota kutsuu autoja tarkastukseen myös Suomessa

Roughly:

Seems a bit OTT, if as claimed "no problems, accidents or dangerous situations have occurred worldwide".

Interesting to get local sales figures though - "In Finland, the recall applies to 318 cars."

 

Yikes. Car crashes and is on fire and the door releases in the rear don't work. News source is a weblog, which makes it sound like this happens a lot and is not a news source. Rare and I could not find any news sources, but found info on reddit. It seems in the model Y they covered the interior door with fabric material to deaden sound. Rear passengers who would not likely RTFM wouldn't know how to move the fabric and get to the mechanical release. dumb move covering a safety device, and the driver should have been knowledgeable enough to save them, but didn't. In my 2018 model 3 this release is not covered. Not sure of the new model Ys. Not sure which cars. The model X's falcon doors appeared to heavy for one man to open manually another problem.

Different situation for toyota. They located the electronic switch where water could get to it and didn't use a waterproof switch which costs more money. It appears that later this year they will replace the switches with waterproof ones (or waterproof the area that the switches are in). Until then this is a safety concern which one member has remedied with his own water proofing tape. Seems a dumb move that the rear doors can only be opened manually from the outside. Hope they change this in the next generation.

 

Actually, it looks like they did in fact specify waterproof/water resistant switches, but the switches supplied to Toyota turned out to be faulty. It was either inadequate design on the part of the switch maker, or a manufacturing problem by them.

 

Interesting but it doesn't state whether this will be done to not yet delivered Prius as well. In my case i will not get it anymore for now and have to wait two more months ( which is surely just some guess). Doing the workaround you mentioned should be much faster.

 

I got the recall also have washed the car with preasure sprayer haven't had and problems with the door !!

 

Sorry to hear about your delay. Bad timing regarding the rebate.

 

I'm surprised there's a stop sale for an issue I had never seen or heard reported. There have been bigger issues for other makers that didn't stop sale before