Toyota to replace oil hoses on 933,800 vehicles

Toyota to Replace Oil hoses on 933,800 Vehicles

Company not issuing recall, says that defect isn't a safety issue

By Reuters 

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Monday, March 1, 2010

Business/Autos

This article is about Toyota vehicles, most likely the Camry, Avalon, Rav4, and Lexus vehicles, having problems with the Oil hoses in the engine. The holes in the hoses that get caused can cause another problem with the vehicle, engine failure. The Toyota spokesman  Brian Lyons said that this isn't a safety issue like the other problems with the cars, and the vehicles will not be recalled. He said that the way you will notice that there is a leakage is when there is an oil puddle beneath the car. The cars that will be fixed are the, "2007-2010 model year Camry, 2005-2009 Avalon, 2006-2009 Rav4, 2007-2008 Lexus ES 350 and 2007-2009 RX 350 vehicles.". All the vehicles will be fixed at any Toyota dealership for no price at all and the fixing date will end on March 31, 2013.

    Toyota better fix the cars for free or else a lot of Toyota car owners would not be happy one bit. If i owned the cars and they make me pay the expansive price that it normally would be, which l'm not old enough to do, i probably would tell a lot of people how bad Toyota cars are. Its Toyota's mistake on putting bad hoses in cars so they should fix it themself's. I wonder why the hoses leak anyway? Did they use the wrong material in making them? What do you think? What would you do if you mad to pay for the repairs? What would you do if you never even knew about the problems? Do you think this is a safety issue?