In the past two weeks, seven Toyota owners have filed complaints with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration after their vehicles had been repaired, The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.
The reports complain the cars still accelerate unexpectedly after receiving the fix for a sticky gas pedal.
Auto industry analyst at IHS Global Insight Aaron Bragman said, "there is already doubt out there that the solutions Toyota has put forward really fix the problem of unintended acceleration."
Toyota has recalled about 6 million cars in the United States since October. The first recall involved fixing floor mats which were allegedly becoming entangled with gas pedals, causing drivers to lose speed control. The second recall, announced in January, took another approach at fixing the same problem.
In the second recall, Toyota said devises installed to give the gas pedal the proper feel were causing unintended acceleration.
Five days after a Feb. 12 repair to a 2010 Camry, however, an anonymous complaint at the NHTSA says the car speed up unexpectedly onto a snow bank.
"Had the incident happened one minute earlier, I would have been in a high car/pedestrian area and would not have been able to avoid an accident," the Camry owner wrote.
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Unknown Dangers
All Car Companies should have came forward with a full disclosures of what car were dangerous. Instead of waiting for a huge media blitz and tons of public pressure. I never seen so many car companies GM - FORD - TOYOTA - HYUNDAI having recalls all at the same time. I had no idea my car was affected until I looked on http://www.carpedalrecall.com and found I had a bad Anti Lock control unit on my 2008 Pontiac G8 , my co workers Ford Truck had a recall also. So be careful
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