CTS Pedals on Chrysler Cars Investigated for Sticking (same company that supplied Toyota Motor Corp)

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Bloomberg

By Angela Greiling Keane

May 3 (Bloomberg) -- Chrysler Group LLC accelerator pedals made by the same company that supplied Toyota Motor Corp. are under investigation by U.S. automotive-safety regulators for potential cases of sticking in Dodge Caliber models.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in a Web site posting today it is looking into the pedals made by CTS Corp. for Chrysler’s 2007 model year Dodge Caliber, which includes about 161,000 vehicles. The agency said it received five complaints by consumers saying the pedals stuck while they were driving their vehicles.

“The company’s initial examination of customer complaints finds they are limited to a small group of vehicles built during a five-week window in March and April of 2006,” Chrysler spokesman Nick Cappa said in an e-mailed statement. “It appears to be a supplier manufacturing concern, which is mechanical in nature and not a design or electronic issue.”

About 10,000 vehicles for the 2007 model year were made with the batch of pedals containing the mechanical defect, Cappa said in an interview. The vehicles have brake-override technology, which is intended to stop a car if both the accelerator and brake are applied.

Read more: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-03/cts-pedals-on-chrysler-cars-investigated-for-sticking-update3-.html

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Many people have said I would not post negative breaking safety news about AMERICAN brand cars. Well here is one. We owned a 99 Dodge Intrepid for 8 years BTW.

OS

[xultar]

1. THIS CANNOT BE...IT WAS USER ERROR ALL ALONG....

BLAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

the humanity!!!!!!

THEY WERE ALL FAKING....THE FUNK....



This is not true. It cannot be. Nothing was ever wrong.

[stray cat]

2. can't be -its an American car company with union labor

[newscott]

3. Patiently waiting for my recall notice on my SRT4 now.

Ugh.

[kgnu_fan]

4. Is it an American company?

[Heywood J]

5. See, here's the key point.

The vehicles have brake-override technology, which is intended to stop a car if both the accelerator and brake are applied.

That was apparently too difficult or expensive for Toyota to implement - it would have subtracted from their bottom line. Mechanical issues can happen to anyone, but this is a simple fix and was the correct thing to do.