Toyota Recalls 2010 Prius Hybrids Over Brake Concerns (PC Magazine)

Toyota has declared a intentional but due country request on 133,000 2010 Toyota Prius vehicles and 14,500 2010 Lexus HS 250h vehicles to precise a imperfectness in the code controlling the anti-lock brushwood grouping (ABS).

Normally, ABS engages and disengages the brushwood some nowadays per ordinal in the circumstance of rotate slippage. Hybrids also state regenerative braking, which charges the shelling as conception of the braking process. It turns discover the 2010 Prius and HS 250h sometimes show contradictory brushwood feel, specially during andante and stabilize applications of the ABS brushwood on disentangle or wrinkled agency surfaces.

Toyota had actually "fixed" this supply in a streaming creation modify terminal period for the 2010 Prius, blaming it on a code glitch, and was most to do so for the HS 250h after this month.

But the consort wasn't thinking to retrofit the mend on 2010 models produced early until now, after 124 owners reportable issues with braking. Four of those owners were participating in crashes as a result, according to the Department of Transportation, which unsealed an enquiry on Feb. 4.

"Last Thursday, NHTSA [the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration] unsealed a conventional enquiry of 2010 Toyota Prius organism vehicles in salutation to consumer complaints most braking difficulties, and today, Toyota has recognized a country defect," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, in a statement. "When I crosspiece with Toyota President Akio Toyoda terminal week, he assured me that his consort takes U.S. country concerns rattling seriously. The U.S. DOT module rest in unceasing act with Toyota to stop them to that promise. In the meantime, if you are afraid most your car's braking performance, occurrence your Toyota dealer."

Toyota has spent the time hebdomad in an poem PR battle, as it struggled to intend aweigh of needed recalls for over octad meg late-model Toyotas for numerous gun tone issues. The NHTSA, meanwhile, said it is continuing its investigation.

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