Bogus Lawsuit CostsToyota 1 Billion $

[Billiam]

Originally Posted by DMZ

I bought a base '05 Tacoma in 2006 for $15K. Two years and 32K miles later I totaled it after hitting black ice and sliding into a rock cut bank. The insurance adjuster offered $14,750 for it. $250 depreciation! I took the money and put it down on a Tundra.

I had a recall notice in my desk for the vehicle awaiting me to make an appointment at the dealer.

If I was a crook, I could have claimed the throttle stuck and I hit a icy spot, totaling the truck. Probably would have got a new Tacoma +$$$'s from Toyota. Not my style.

Actually...Toyota would've pulled info on brake and throttle application from "The Box"...as they started doing soon after this whole debacle began. You made the right choice....being honest.

[fnkngrv]

Originally Posted by Billiam

Actually...Toyota would've pulled info on brake and throttle application from "The Box"...as they started doing soon after this whole debacle began. You made the right choice....being honest.

To elaborate on that "The Box" also records top speed reached as well as how many times/often it occurs. This will enable Toyota to dispute certain failure claims as abusive utilization of the vehicle. A buddy of mine found that out a couple months back when he took his 2012 Tundra TRD Sport packaged truck down the course at the land speed runs for grins. He hit the fuel cutoff at roughly 125mph and bounced off it several times in the 1.5 miles. He took the truck in for his complementary oil change and asked how that whole thing works and was educated on what manufacturers are doing to protect themselves now. He was told that if the engine failed that he would most likely have not been able to have it covered since he ran it the way he did. Good food for thought.

[edmscan]

I just think that it is BS .. as some people are just trying to get rich off of Toyota cause they are seen to have lots of money.

But don't worry Toyota will make that money back .. on the backs of people that buy their cars. So really we all are paying for some peoples greedyness.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by Billiam

Actually...Toyota would've pulled info on brake and throttle application from "The Box"...as they started doing soon after this whole debacle began. You made the right choice....being honest.

How I feel about 'The Box' has changed over the years. I read my owners manual carefully when I first purchased my new Yaris and I didn't like the description of 'The Box'. Too Orwellian...I was p****d off. I have since made peace with it. I still think in is too Orwellian, but I now look upon it as partial proof of my safe driving.

[Billiam]

Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

How I feel about 'The Box' has changed over the years. I read my owners manual carefully when I first purchased my new Yaris and I didn't like the description of 'The Box'. Too Orwellian...I was p****d off. I have since made peace with it. I still think in is too Orwellian, but I now look upon it as partial proof of my safe driving.

Toyota (like many other companies) has been forced to find ways to protect it's self from bogus claims. So many of these SUA claims were debunked after "The Box" was analyzed.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by Billiam

Toyota (like many other companies) has been forced to find ways to protect it's self from bogus claims. So many of these SUA claims were debunked after "The Box" was analyzed.

I know, you're right. I'm just too idealistic. The fact that we live in a society where cameras are needed to help deter people from stealing and doing other things wrong is, IMO, pathetic. I spent a fair amount of time in Scandinavia earlier in my life (especially in Sweden) and I remember it being more like the way I wish things would be here, now (the nature of goodness part....not the so called cradle to grave part. I don't think the two are, by necessity, related) . I haven't been there since just before 9/11. I've read that much has changed (irrespective of 9/11). Being, in a few ways, a 'disappointed idealist' forced to be a realist probably stokes the cynical view I have toward some things.