Report: Toyota continues to work on floormat fix for 2004-09 Prius
 

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In the wake of yesterday's <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/03/09/video-san-diego-runaway-prius-has-media-buzzing/">"runaway Prius" in San Diego</a>, <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/make/toyota/">Toyota</a> says it's still working on a fix for the thousands of hybrids included in the 4.36 million vehicles recalled last November. The source of the unintended acceleration on these affected <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/model/prius">Prius</a> models is the same as the other vehicles involved in the recall: A floor mat that gets jammed up against the throttle. Unfortunately for Toyota, the owner of yesterday's "runaway Prius" claims the floormat wasn't his car's problem.<br />
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Regardless, Toyota says that new, smaller pedals and redesigned floor mats are in the works for these vehicles, but modifications haven't begun because the automaker is still working on a more specific solution. Yeah, we're a bit confused as well.<br />
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Contrary to a report by the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>, a new recall isn't in the cards for the last-gen Prius and Toyota spokesperson Brian Lyons told <em>The</em> <em>Detroit News</em> that while he can't disclose exactly when this floormat fix will happen for affected Prius models or how the correction will be implemented, the changes will take place "sometime this year." Here's hoping it's sooner rather than later.<br />
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[Sources: <a href="http://www.detnews.com/article/20100309/AUTO01/3090420/1148/auto01/Toyota-still-working-on-fix-for-2004-09-Prius-recall">Detroit News</a>, <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704784904 575111503873150166.html?m od=WSJ_hpp_LEADNewsCollec tion">Wall Street Journal</a> - Sub. Req.]<p style="padding:5px;backgr ound:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/03/09/report-toyota-continues-to-work-on-floormat-fix-for-2004-09-pri/">Report: Toyota continues to work on floormat fix for 2004-09 Prius</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://www.autoblog.com">Autoblo g</a> on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:57:00 EST. Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.</p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/03/09/report-toyota-continues-to-work-on-floormat-fix-for-2004-09-pri/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/19390345/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2010/03/09/report-toyota-continues-to-work-on-floormat-fix-for-2004-09-pri/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>

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