Toyota Australia is in danger of being fined 2 billion AUD (nearly 1.5 billion USD) due to a dust filter error on 250,000 Hilux, Prado and Fortuner diesel engines. The task of the dust filter, according to the original design, is to reduce emissions into the environment by burning dust and pollutant gas trapped by the filter.
The influence of the above fault directly causes a series of problems such as clogging the exhaust system, emitting white smoke with great intensity and even causing the car to consume more fuel.
According to research from Australian authorities, there are more than 250,000 vehicles affected by the problem that were manufactured between October 2015 and April 2020.
Not only facing the risk of paying a fine of $ 1.5 billion, the Japanese brand also needs to compensate users for 17.5% of the average retail value of the car they own (which can be higher or lower depending on the situation). damage to which the vehicle owner is affected), and repair/upgrade the vehicle free of charge for the user to thoroughly fix the above error.
According to the press in this country, many Toyota customers have brought their cars to the dealer for repair many times but have not completely solved the above problem. In the period 2016 to 2018, Toyota’s method of fixing errors is to tweak the air filter control software, but the efficiency is not high, only when the company starts to upgrade this system hardware, the above error appears less.
For its part, Toyota asserted that the vehicles affected by the faulty air filter could operate normally and the white smoke from the exhaust system was a normal result of the air filter, but the court denied. above objection.
Reference: Drive
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