Toyota has up to 70,000 vehicles still stranded in US dealer stock due to defective accelerator pedals that are the subject of a major recall, an executive said.
Toyota’s recall of 2.3m cars and light trucks because of faulty gas pedals led to an extraordinary stop-sale order that affected about 60% of the 210,000 vehicles in dealer stock, or about 120,000 cars and light trucks, Bob Carter, sales chief for the Toyota brand in the United States, told Reuters.
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He estimated that 60,000 to 70,000 units in dealer inventory were still subject to the stop order because pedal repairs were not completed.
Carter said he was “very confident” of the fixes Toyota plans for the accelerator pedals.
Toyota has offered a repair for pedals on existing vehicles and a newly designed accelerator pedal for new production. The automaker halted production for a week to start February and all plants have received the newly designed pedal.
Carter said all Toyota dealers have the parts to repair the accelerator pedals and that the dealers were focused on repairing customer cars before the vehicles in inventory.
Toyota US dealers are repairing more than 52,000 accelerator pedals per day and have completed work on about 225,000 since they started late last week, Carter told Reuters.
“We are 24/7 working with the dealers to maximise the number of repairs,” he said.
