January 26, Japan Toyota Auto Body Co 26, announced that the existence of engine oil leakage risk in the global recall of nearly 1 million 700 thousand cars.
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Toyota Corporation submitted a recall report to the Ministry of land and transportation of Japan on the same day. The recalled cars involved crown, Lexus, RAV4L and other models, with production dates between May 2000 and August 2009. Among them, 1 million 277 thousand and 390 were recalled in Japan, and about 411 thousand were recalled overseas.
Toyota Corporation said, on the engine parts of the recalled cars, some oil pipes have small cracks, some valve joints are loose and there is a risk of oil leakage. Because these defects generally need to be exposed gradually after long term use, the production dates of these cars span up to 9 years.
according to Japan's Ministry of land and transportation, this is Japan's 1969 implementation of the car recall system, a one-time recall of the number of cars in Japan, the number more than 2 of the incident. Toyota Corporation's recall includes free recovery or repair, which is expected to cost tens of billions of yen.
from the end of 2009 to 2010, the Toyota Corporation accumulated about 10000000 vehicles on the global recall problem for quality problems, which seriously affected the company's reputation and performance.