Assembly plants in North America is ready for the redesigned replacements for faulty accelerator pedal of the mechanisms that led the manufacturer to stop selling the eight models.
The interruption of the sale will be followed by a cessation of production next week in five plants in North America, Toyota said Tuesday. The factories that produce cars and trucks were among the 2.3 million Toyota recalled last week to fix the accelerator pedals that are likely to stick.
Some Toyota plants have already received the replacement part, while others wait until production ramps up new facility, a person familiar with the situation.
The source gave no details of the timeline. Projects for the restructuring process was completed earlier this week by Toyota engineers in R & D and the supplier of the United States, CTS Corp., said the source.
“The counter-pedal is now available from the supplier,” said the source. “We are in the transition period. It ‘only a matter of time to get parts of plants.”
Ririko Takeuchi spokesman for Toyota has confirmed that the supplier has developed a mechanism to replace the pedals. He said it is not clear to what extent have already been sent to plants. Two assembly plants are in Indiana and one in Texas, Kentucky and Canada.
The solution presents itself as the largest producer in the world struggle to halt a growing crisis of reports of cases of sudden acceleration, with the participation of certain death.
Defective accelerator were conducted in Canada by the STS, which is based in Elkhart, Ind. A person who answered the phone after hours on Tuesday declined to comment on the situation.
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Takeuchi said stop production next week is to maintain an inventory of backup. It is unclear when production will resume. The production of vehicles will be remembered initially be held February 1 through February 5.
After the announcement of 21 January call, a limited number of vehicles are still problems with the pedal mechanism, said Takeuchi. We do not know how, but the vehicles were not sent, “he said.
I remember that last week after the withdrawal of 4.2 million vehicles last year for setting the mats can block the accelerator, causing unwanted acceleration.
There is still a headache more than Toyota.
Although the company has developed an alternative mechanism to the pedal for you to continue the production of 2010 model vehicles, setting vehicles already on the ground is more complicated.
Oral old pedals needed for the new volume of about 2 million pedals.
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