floormats my but

05 210 wrote:     haha ...nothing fun about the Prius ride.... Ever try to steer a modern car that isn't running??

Actually Mike I was getting pretty good at it a year ago.My Chevy at work a 3500 HD with a bucket on it,would shut off for no reason while driving. After waiting about 30 to 45 seconds, which seemed like forever when it did it at a light,it would restart and I'd be on my way.Turned out to be the crankshaft position sensor. It was fun trying to stop also,the power brakes run off the power steering pump also! After that I think a Toyota would seem easy-

i know you guys remember my 60.00 dollar Pinto, parking sign for a floor board and the pull string thru the fire wall cause the accelerator cable snapped.
when did this world become so safe?

its amaziing how fast a car company can fall from grace from the press.    i would say get ready to buy stock in toyota .   it will bounce back and we will probably start seeing all the manufacturers under the microscope

its a good feeling though, 8 million and counting, you play with fire you'll get burned, i love the new commercial, translated, recently we have tried to force these cars on the road without regards to safety or quality, we used sub-standard metal for your frames, hey thats what came on the scrap metal ship, We used a cheaper vendor for this little plate here and microchips built in Tiawan wtf,
maybe itll work maybe it wont but we got em out there lol

Years ago I had put an aftermarket int. manifold on my Sunbeam Tiger (Ford SB 260).    The carb was now up higher than stock & I didn't think about where the return spring anchor was in relation to the throttle shaft center.

Well, one bright Sunday AM I floor it in town, & the spring went over center at WOT, & stayed there. I was up to 70 Mph before I got the ignition shut off. Fortunately there was no traffic, as I blew through at least 1 red light.

I made a new taller spring mount that day.

dont worry toyo boys I'll keep the bad press flowing, just to keep us informed

I hear the parts were made by Toyota lol, im ripping and tearing apart a toyo on the frame rack, the inner rails pull right off, no need to drill the spot welds, i did a Charger last week and wore my drill out, it was a full day getting that one apart. I so ever hope Toyota takes a good hit....sht they are doing the same thing the US automakers tried in the 80's, push em thru without regards to quality or safety, you can ask anyone of our body guys and they will tell you the same thing......no matter how you wrap a turd, its still a turd

So he had to have had the pedal at WOT for it to stick there and go full speed? lol...

PAPA wrote: Just laughing about a Prius flying down a California highway at WOT, reportly over 80mph unable to stop until the CHIP's officer helped him stop. Thankfully those hybrids have no top end and he was able to stop without hurting anyone. Somehow it still seems they have a problem.

Just read that this James Sikes from San Diego made up this story to collect a compensation from Toyota. He went bankrupt in 2008 and lost his cars. So he leased a Prius, which contract would end in a few weeks. Since he has no money for a new lease, he made up the story hoping to get a new car from Toyota.     

An analysis by Edmunds.com of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) complaint database shows Toyota ranks 17th among 20 automakers in the number of complaints per vehicle sold over roughly the past decade....

Read more at Edmunds Autoobserver.com


The fact is GM, Ford, Dodge, and 13 others have had more complaints filed with the NTHSA in the last decade than Toyota.


I will be taking my Tundra in next Saturday to get the "fix". Still driving it almost everyday with no trouble. In fact, I have almost 45k miles on it now and have not had one complaint. This will be it's first trip back to the dealer since I drove it off the lot almost three years ago. My last GM vehicle, a Pontiac minivan, that I bought new had to be returned for recalls three times in the three years I owned it.

I hope you guys know im just bustin your chops, but to me the writing is on the wall and its working, i asked my wife the other day if she would consider buying a toyota and her response was "NO" they are unsafe...a little brainwashing in there and you just dont know it, it has nothing to do with Toyota..its about selling cars plain and simple,
those fkn bastards (IRS) clipped my account again, no notice except from the bank, are you suppose to pay these guys? If someone told me they had to change the frame on my truck i would give the truck back, you think those FR boys own a torque wrench?

the recall was for all the cold salty states but as i hear they will do all of them, you dont have to make excuses for them, they fcd up and got caught
my buddy at the machine shop was cutting a gear today and the company he cuts gears for supplies the steel and they opt to use chinese steel, he faced it and the bit kept skipping in one spot and he also had to drill a hole in the same spot, nothing he had would drill into that area....this is the sht they are all passing off onto us, he tried for 2 hours and finally told them to come get the hunk of steel....now i dont know about you, but i see a problem here
i do see the Fusion and the Volt surpassing the Prius, and will put these guys back in the game. I think people are starting to realize something more has to be done to this economy to get it kick started

I agree with buy american...just make sure you understand what that actually means

American Made Index

I hear of guys buying them for pennies and getting blue book.

This is very upsetting but i will post, word for word from my local paper, this is the sht that happens when you bow to the dot.

"Sale stamps city with disappointment" 2 million sq ft Chrysler plant once employing 3000 neighbors, friends, family sold for 45.5 million and its contents to a Vanccouver B.C firm.

its a fcin liquidation firm, that will employ basically no one generating no city income and the domino effect will begin, education will go to sht, city services will go to sht, and it will be anytown USA in the city. this company will end up re-couping thier investment by selling off the CAR MANUFACTURING equipment i.e, presses to the Chinese, the Japanese, The Koreans.
as the article ends, and I quote, "I am asking everyone to buy American, in the end it is up to the CONSUMER, CONSUMER to save American manufacturing.
Once again, I may be way out of line, I dont get up every morning and salute the 50 stars, but alot of complaining about the markets, unemployment, healthcare is going on.....and this is the reason, ive been pissed about Jap sht, but now it really hits home, its a fckin car that gets you from A to B, thats it, its not a life threatening situation., keep buying the junk, cause you got baited and switched

Glad to see my Tundra is more American than the GMC Sierra 1500. That was my 2nd choice.

American-Made Index

I completely see your point of view Eric, And I agree with buying American Made as long as it is the best quality and value I can afford. But I think your thinking is a little behind the times. A lot of American cars are not even assembled in America any more and the parts they are assembled with are not being produced in America. So how "American" is a product if it assembled in Mexico, by Mexicans, with parts from China? You mean to tell me that just because it has a name badge on it that belongs to a company started in America decades ago that it makes it an "American" car?

Another thing I found interesting about that list is that both Ford and GM's trucks are on that list but the list seems to be lacking in cars produced by Ford and GM (Chrysler/Dodge didn't even appear on the list) Do you think maybe that is because they know that the consumer of their truck products are males in the 35 - 65 age demographic. The group that would pay the most attention to where it was made? What I'm trying to say is that most females in their 20's - 30's could care less where their car is made, as long as it's "cute" and is painted in a color they like they could care less where it's made. They do their research on who's buying their cars and what is important to them...

If we really want to boost our economy, we will start insisting that other products we buy are American made, not just automobiles. Funny how no one seems to care where their PC is made, or where their refrigerator, dishwasher, vacuum cleaner, tools etc. are made... Think about it, we could add a lot to the economy if these products were still made here...   

I was at Harbor Freight yesterday and seen an old Ford pickup in the parking lot with a "Buy American" sticker on the bumper. That guy didn't seem to care that he was buying tools made in China...