Toyota Motor Corp., the Japanese automobile group, has announced the recall of about 700,000 cars bearing Toyota and Lexus brands in the United States to fix a defect that could cause the fuel pump to stop working.
The Japanese company said in a statement today that if the fuel pump in these cars stops working, the warning lamp will light up and messages may appear on the dashboard, with the possibility of the engine stopping, which will cause the car to stop, and the inability to restart it again, warning that the sudden stop The result of this defect while traveling at high speed increases the likelihood of a collision.
The withdrawal process includes Lexus LS500, RS350, RS300, GS350, GS300, ES350, LX570, GS460 and SRX350 from 2018 and 2019. It also includes Lexus NX 300, RX 350L and GS 300 production in 2019.
For Toyota cars, the withdrawal process includes the Toyota FourRunner, Camry, Highlander, Land Cruiser, Sequoia, Siena, Tacoma and Tundra models produced in 2018 and 2019, as well as the Avalon and Corolla production models in 2019.
Toyota has stated that it will implement the repair process for defective cars free of charge and that it will notify all owners of these cars of the process by mailing them by mid-March.