Toyota Quality Updates:

Common Cents proudly brings you today's "Toyota Quality Updates".  Of late it has been difficult to stay on top of all the late-breaking and exciting Quality Updates coming from Toyota.  For instance just last week they finished in 21st place in the latest JD Power and Associates 2010 initial quality study.  With no further delay here is today's Toyota Quality Update:

TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Toyota Motor Corp. (7203.TO) said Friday that it will begin recalling 270,000 vehicles worldwide from Monday to fix an engine problem.  The company will inform Japan's transport ministry on Monday that it intends to recall 90,000 vehicles in Japan, a Toyota spokeswoman said. That will be followed by a recall of 137,000 vehicles in the U.S., with the remaining vehicles to be recalled in other regions, she added.  Further details, such as which other regions are affected, will be disclosed from Monday, the spokeswoman said.  The world's biggest car maker by volume said Thursday that it was preparing to recall some Lexus LS460, Lexus LS600h, Lexus LS600hL, Lexus GS350, Lexus GS450h, Lexus GS460 and Lexus IS350 and Toyota Crown models to fix a problem with the valve spring of 4.6 liter V8 and 3.5 liter V6 engines used in those vehicles.  But on Thursday, the company said it wasn't clear when it would begin the recall.  The car maker is trying to bolster its quality control measures after it was hit by a global recall of more than 8.5 million vehicles earlier this year, which led to the company paying a $16.4 million fine in the U.S.  Read the entire story here.

  Previous Toyota Quality Updates

• Toyota STOPS sales of Camrys and 7 other recalled models
• Corolla - Steering Problems affect 2009 and 2010 models 
• Updated Lexus recall list
• PRIUS:   Brake problems with Toyota's hybrid
• Toyota recalls 3.8 million cars on floor mat issue  
• Tragedy Aug. 28 was at least the fifth fatal crash in the U.S. over the last two year
• So far 102 reports, 13 crashes, 5 deaths and 17 injuries...  
• NY Times: President of Toyota apologizes 
• Toyota Recalls 97,500 Corollas and Scions for brake malfunction 
• Toyota Recalls 688,314 Sedans over defective parts   
• Toyota Recalls 259,119 Camrys in China
• Toyota Recalls 2006 - 2007 Yaris Models  
• Toyota to Recall more than 1.35 million cars worldwide
• Toyota Recalls 214,500 Lexus vehicles in USA 
• Toyota Recalls 58,000 cars in Canada
• Toyota Recalls 533,000 Pickup Trucks and SUVs due to 11 accidents and 6 injuries 
• Toyota California Plant that manufactures Corolla and Tacoma to close in March
• Millions of Toyota &and Lexus vehicles w/ throttle control problems
• Feds launch probe on 2000 - 2001 Toyota Tundras
• Toyota Sales:  DOWN 16.1% in September
• Lexus GX-460 wins Consumer Reports "DON'T BUY" award