Toyota has announced that they will be recalling over 7.4 million cars worldwide due to issues occurring with power window switches that could cause a fire.
Since 2008, the automaker has had a number of recalls relating to over 10 million cars and was severely hurt during 2011 thanks to the floods in Thailand and the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
This is being considered the largest voluntary recall by the biggest automaker in the world since 1996 when they had to recall 8 million cars due to a defective ignition switch that also could have potentially started a fire.
The Toyota models that have been recalled include the: Tundra released in 2007-09, Corolla released in 2009, Camry and Camry Hybrid released in 2007-09, RAV4 released in 2007-09, Scion xA and xD released in 2008-09, Matrix released in 2009, Highlander and Hylander Hybrid released in 2008, and the Yaris released in 2007-08.
Of the 7.4 million cars that have been recalled, over 2.47 million of them are vehicles in the U.S. Toyota announced the recall in order to fix a defective power window switch located on the driver's side of the car.
"Of course, 7 million vehicles is a huge number, but it's probably not going to be like last time when customers in the United States avoided buying Toyota cars," said Monika Saiot to Reuters. "This sounds like a completely different scale from then."
Repairs are expected to take around 40 minutes to an hour.
No major injuries or accidents have been reported due to the problem. Over a 120 customers have complained about the switches that have been reported to cause issues like an overheating engine or mini fires.
Owners of these vehicles will be receiving notices in their mailboxes regarding their car and if they should bring it into a dealership or not.
Despite the recall, Toyota said that they are still expecting to sell 9.8 million cars and trucks worldwide this year.
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