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divideandconquer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-09-10 09:22 PM
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Toyota Owner Faces Issues After Recall Fix
Toyota Owner Faces Issues After Recall Fix

ATLANTA -- Samar Ahmed thought he had the ideal family car, a fully loaded 2010 Toyota Camry. Like thousands of others when heard about the gas pedal recall, he says he took the car right in for repair.

The next morning he was in for a shock when he said what happened.

"I hit the gas and it just revs up. It wasn't moving. Totally unpredictable behavior. I didn't have any issue like this before at all. Immediately when it happened I was in total shock. I didn't know what to expect. Actually I thought I was the problem, I thought I didn't have the car in drive but I double checked -- then I pushed the pedal again a third time and it just took off," Ahmed said.

He says took the car back for another fix. 11Alive's Bill Liss joined him for a test drive. Now, everything seems okay.

Liss contacted the general manager of the Metro Atlanta dealership where Ahmed took the car to see if there was any relationship between what happened to Ahmed and the recall repair.

After the repair, Ahmed says he was told by his service advisor at the dealership, "They think that maybe in the recall when they did it and reset the computer and downloaded some software something and it got corrupted and could have caused the computer to make the car not perform the right way."
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If many of the cars work worse after the recall fix, Toyota as we know it, will collapse.
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Lint Head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-09-10 09:26 PM
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1. Great. A computer virus in your car that can kill.
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ingac70 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-09-10 09:44 PM
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2. They deserve to collapse. n/t
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