OMG Your toilet is on fire!

[lizardth]

Defective Toilets!

There have been three incidents of the electric bidet accessory in Toto's Z series catching fire.

"Fortunately nobody was using the toilets when the fire broke out and there were no injuries," a company spokesman said.

"The fire would have been just under your buttocks," she added.

Toto is a pioneer of high-tech toilets with built-in bidets, which are popular in Japan.

The Z series features a pulsating massage spray, a power dryer, a "tornado wash" flush, and a lid that opens and closes automatically.

It is not sold outside Japan.

The offending loos were all manufactured between May 1996 and December 2001.

 

[waggy]

ok. how do you mess up so bad the the toilet catches on fire?

wow.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: waggy
ok. how do you mess up so bad the the toilet catches on fire?

wow.

Well, I've had less of a problem since I stopped storing strips of sodium wrapped in old newspaper in there.

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: waggy
ok. how do you mess up so bad the the toilet catches on fire?

wow.

It may have something to do with the "tornado wash"?

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: waggy
ok. how do you mess up so bad the the toilet catches on fire?

wow.

Well, I've had less of a problem since I stopped storing strips of sodium wrapped in old newspaper in there.

:laugh:

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: waggy
ok. how do you mess up so bad the the toilet catches on fire?

I'm just guessing here, but don't they use an electrically heated stream of water? Electric heater + no water flow to keep the heater cool = fire. The bidet won't be continuously spraying water so most of the time there is no water flow. Just a guess though as this could have just been something simple like a short.

 

[brandonbull]

Originally posted by: waggy
ok. how do you mess up so bad the the toilet catches on fire?

wow.

Not Mexican food safe?

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: So
Well, I've had less of a problem since I stopped storing strips of sodium wrapped in old newspaper in there.

No kidding. Cesium coated in magnesium powder might be a better idea, you should try that.

 

[yowolabi]

I just want to know why I can't buy one outside of Japan.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: So
Well, I've had less of a problem since I stopped storing strips of sodium wrapped in old newspaper in there.

No kidding. Cesium coated in magnesium powder might be a better idea, you should try that.

Nah, I use that to clean the tub...

 

[eplebnista]

Originally posted by: yowolabi
I just want to know why I can't buy one outside of Japan.

Maybe the company didn't want to redesign to compensate for the difference in worldwide voltages or something.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33

Originally posted by: waggy
ok. how do you mess up so bad the the toilet catches on fire?

wow.

It may have something to do with the "tornado wash"?

err. not sure what they do on that..but i don't want it done to me.

 

[EKKC]

saw this on colbert. i ROFL'ed