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Postby repowered » Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:43 pm

More than 3000 late model Toyota Yaris cars are to be recalled in New Zealand because of a potential seatbelt fault.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4832927a11.html

never heard of gas fired pre tensioners before...guessing it tightens the seatbelts at the same time the airbags go off?
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Postby FXGTV » Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:53 pm

haha, you beat me to that by about 2 mins :P Anyone on here own one?
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Postby FST4RD » Thu Jan 29, 2009 5:19 pm

The Press today said that there were 2 faults, the seatbelt and something else but I forget....
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Postby touge rolla » Thu Jan 29, 2009 5:27 pm

FST4RD wrote:The Press today said that there were 2 faults, the seatbelt and something else but I forget....

The exhaust. Didn't say anything more specific than that though.
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Postby FST4RD » Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:05 pm

Yeah thats right...
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Postby Voodoo » Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:44 pm

same warning over here in aus
they are recalling more than 1.35 million worldwide

seatbelt and exhaust defects -

"the recalls are mostly due to problems linked to seatbelt tensioner that may cause a fire in the case of a collision"
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Postby Akane » Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:45 pm

The exhaust, but still havn't caused any problems yet. 800 were recalled in Hong Kong, read about it this early afternoon but didn't make a thread about it.
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Postby skoty » Thu Jan 29, 2009 9:10 pm

Akane wrote:read about it this early afternoon but didn't make a thread about it.


lol, TS is good for sharing old news :P Some of us do read the newspaper :wink:
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Postby Hybridd » Sun Feb 15, 2009 8:51 pm

Yeah we also had a Yaris recall here in South Africa , something about the seatbelt and associated components , around 5000 recalled.. 8O
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