Recent content by orangeblue

Nope. Still Limited only.

One thing to remember, is that there were 20,500 4Runners included with the June remedy launch. There are about 459,900 2010-11 Corollas, which use the same inflator, included in the June remedy launch. Even if your dealership gets replacement parts, they're not unique to the 4Runner, and you'll...

Back in 2015, Takata reported to the NHTSA that they'd performed over 30,000 tests on recalled airbags, and that they'd had a failure rate of 0.8%; in the field between 2001 and 2015, there were 88 ruptures within over 1.2 million deployments. More importantly, the PSPI-6 inflator, the same one...

https://www.toyota.com/recall/takata

Chevy has one regarding the C7 Z06, also because it overheats on track. But that's a slightly different issue than whether a modification voids your warranty. The standard Toyota warranty doesn't cover "abuse or negligence" or "misuse -for example, racing or overloading." I could see off-road...

The spacer would likely fall under the "alteration or tampering" exclusion in the warranty (p.14 of the warranty booklet). A spacer is an alteration to the stock shock assembly.

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: Honda's recalls also started in 2008. They, and other manufacturers, also get/got priority because their cars had defective driver's airbags, where Toyota's recalls are limited to passenger side only (meaning the Toyotas can be operated safely, albeit without a front...

Except they're not being recalled because they go off randomly. They're being recalled because when you get in an accident and the airbag goes off, the inflator fails and becomes shrapnel. If you don't get in a crash that causes a passenger airbag deployment, you'll never have the problem being...

I doubt it's guaranteed not to void your warranty, but it's also unlikely that it'd result in a valid warranty denial. Legally, per the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act of 1975, your warranty can only be denied if the dealer can prove that the modification caused the problem. Installing a plug and...

It's basically impossible to know the actual rate of failure, since failure only occurs in the event of a passenger airbag deployment. The vast majority of vehicles equipped with these defective airbags have never been crashed, and statistics say that the ones that have been crashed are more...

Ningbo Joyson is a huge conglomerate that owns various essentially independently operated entities, like KSS and TechniSat Digital (German satnav manufacturer).

No. Key Safety Systems, out of Michigan, is planning on purchasing only assets from Takata (i.e. some of their factories and possibly intellectual property). An asset purchase doesn't involve transferring liabilities like a merger would. The $1.6B Takata gets from the sale is then used to...

They definitely have to open the hood, since you can't work on the airbag system without disconnecting the battery...