{"id":655219,"date":"2010-02-04T23:19:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T04:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/02\/04\/toyota%e2%80%99s-fixing-recalled-pedals-with-just-a-small-metal-shim\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:17:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:17:45","slug":"toyotas-fixing-recalled-pedals-with-just-a-small-metal-shim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/655219","title":{"rendered":"Toyota\u2019s fixing recalled pedals with just a small metal shim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/20100204_toyota-fix-3_630mz.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-138539\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d907c_20100204_toyota-fix-3_630mz-620x339.jpg?resize=620%2C339\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"339\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nToyota just starting rolling out accelerator fixes to its dealers. The fix itself doesn&#8217;t actually seem that hard as <a href=\"http:\/\/autos.aol.com\/article\/toyota-recall-pedal-fix-walkthrough\">Autoblog and Aol Autos found out<\/a> at LaFontaine Toyota in Dearborn, Michigan. (Fun Fact: Ford&#8217;s HQ is in Dearborn) The process is just popping out the pedal and figuring out what size shim needs to be insert in the recalled pedal. After that, a system diagnostic is ran and the customer drives away. 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The fix itself doesn&#8217;t actually seem that hard as Autoblog and Aol Autos found out at LaFontaine Toyota in Dearborn, Michigan. (Fun Fact: Ford&#8217;s HQ is in Dearborn) The process is just popping out the pedal and figuring out what size shim needs to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Ks3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756798,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655219\/revisions\/756798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}