Hi Guys

Many thanks for all your interesting comments.

It is mainly as I expected. Toyota quality has not collapsed overnight and the media hype is ( even for the media) completely over the top.

As I said in my opening comment we have had several Toyotas all of which have performed brilliantly and economically.

We have a Yaris that is due to be re-called any time for the inspection amd modification. But we have had absolutely no problems with it. Since the accelerator announcement I have been trying to make it happen without succeeding.

Having said this many years ago I was driving a Fiat 124S and had been on a long trip on the motorway driving at a constant 70 - 80 mph.
I had to take the Cheltenham exit and when I took my foot off the pedal it stayed down hard to the boards.

Luckily the motorway was quiet and the exit off was uphill. I stuck it into neutral and switched off and slowly braked and stopped.

I looked under the bonnet and saw that the throttle cable was frayed. I wrapped it as tight as I could and drove very slowly to the next garage where they replaced it for me.

I reported it to Fiat and was told that this was merely a problem of wear and tear and was to be expected.

Toyoto have acted rapidly and totally to a far more minor problem. This one was dangerous.

cheers

MikeL2

PS I quickly got shut of the Fiat.