100 series safety recall

My steering shaft needed replacing after it was damaged by rust caused by water ingress.
I believe the second hand that was used came out of a Sahara.
Better talk to my mechanic.

It isnt workmanship that is the problem.

It is a perceived part failure caused by abnormal operation and only in certain Vin numbers as well.

The part was probably outsourced and a batch has turned out to be not up to standard.

Similarly with other recalls.

They dont build every part themselves but have to stand the crap from those who cant see the big picture.

It is however no excuse for keeping failures secret as not only Toyota have done.

In the increasingly complex art of building cars with several thousand parts it must be hard to be perfect.

Witness ball joints on XD-XF Falcons.
Territory brake lines.
Both 3rd party supplied items.

Graham,
Toyota are responsible for the parts, it is up to them to monitor quality control rightly or wrongly they get caned for inferior or defective vehicles, lately there have been many of these instances.

Where I work they can't keep up the supply of a/c condensers to our Toyota's. The old utes operated in the same conditions did not suffer the same problem. Doors on some of the 70 series wagons and utes are rusting prematurely, they lasted much longer on the old utes. Alternators, they are going through 1 a week because of the position they are mounted in.

The old utes were tough an d gained their reputation in mining and the bush.

That rep is slowly being eroded and Toyota are the builders so they will be judged

O yeah. the Mitsubishi scandal is old news... 2004 and was more to do with the FUSO trucks, my point is that no recalls could be worse...