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Notification number
1129140
Notified
9 March 2012
Make
Toyota(トヨタ)
Sold as
ヴァンガード、RAV4
Model codes
DBA-ACA33W, DBA-GSA33W, DBA-ACA31W, DBA-ACA36W
Part at fault
その他(かじ取り)
Vehicles covered
90
Filed as
Recall
Register
Japan — Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism

What the ministry says is wrong

車体にかじとり装置を固定するブラケット(金具)の溶接工程において、生産準備のために試作した部品の処置が不適切なため、正規品の中に混入した可能性がある。そのため、ハンドル操作時に当該溶接部が剥がれて、異音が発生し、最悪の場合、ハンドル位置が急激に下がって操作が困難になるおそれがある。

What is to be done about it

全車両、当該ブラケットを含む車体部品を良品に交換する。また、良品と交換するまでの間、運転時の注意事項を使用者に周知する。

The two passages above are quoted in Japanese because that is the language the ministry published them in. This site keeps the wording a register had when it was read, and does not translate a safety notice.

Source: Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism website (出典:国土交通省ウェブサイト), used under the Public Data License 1.0. This site gathered the record, grouped it by notification number and set it in English around the ministry's own words; the notice itself is unaltered. CarsMultiverse is not the ministry and not a safety authority. To act on this notice, use the ministry's own document.

The Japanese register on this site

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