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PSA: Easy fix for Runaway Priuses -- Update: Runaway Prius DUDE was BANKRUPT

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if the brakes somehow don't work, what's so hard to believe that neutral didn't work either?

I would believe that the avg joe wasn't aware of holding the button down for a few secs though.
 
Slick5150 said:
Everyone's a freaking expert on this ... until it happens to them.
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Until what happens? Until you find yourself bankrupt and stage an "incident" setting yourself up to sue Toyota so you can pull yourself out of financial trouble?

Yeah, that happens to me all the time.
 
rh71 said:
if the brakes somehow don't work, what's so hard to believe that neutral didn't work either?

I would believe that the avg joe wasn't aware of holding the button down for a few secs though.
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Really? I don't know about you, but my car is key driven. I turn they key off, the car turns off. If I had a push button start car, I would probably do a bit of research on how to turn the car off via push button. What do these people that "don't know how to turn the car off" do to turn off their car on a daily basis when they simply park the car?
 
LOL!


Also, I was just telling my wife this morning "I bet a big majority of these reports are either mistakes or people trying to cover up mistakes/get money".
 
Although I agree that those people that have had plenty of time to control their vehicles have made some pretty stupid mistakes, or perpetrated a fraud, if you were to give me a remote control to your car where I could unexpectedly cause a wide open throttle condition, I hazard to guess that in a short while I could fuck up the rest of your day.
 
Nik said:
Until what happens? Until you find yourself bankrupt and stage an "incident" setting yourself up to sue Toyota so you can pull yourself out of financial trouble?

Yeah, that happens to me all the time.
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Right, because that dumbass was the first and only person that's experienced a problem with their Toyota lately.
 
1. If he filed for bankruptcy, depending upon which Chapter he filed, he may be completely clear of all debt right now. Ch. 7 would have cleared all of it; Ch. 13 means he's making payments over several years to repay the debt. In either case, he's NOT $700,000 in debt.

2. I seriously doubt he was ever 5 months behind on his Prius payments. Finance companies, be they banks or dealer or whatever, usually repossesses at 90 days behind. Certainly by 5 months overdue, his car would have been taken.

3. If he's in Ch. 13, he cannot be behind on his car payment anyway....the car's payments are taken over by the bankruptcy court and paid off via the court. He'd only make a monthly payment to the court each month in the amount designated by the court.....the car payment would be taken out of that, essentially removing him from any direct responsibility in that area. If the payments are behind right now, it'd be the court's fault, not his. Again, this is if he's in Ch. 13.

4. And what was the point of showing he's filed ins. claim for stolen articles from a car of his? That doesn't prove anything except trying to scandalize the article even more.
 
Slick5150 said:
Right, because that dumbass was the first and only person that's experienced a problem with their Toyota lately.
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I could have sworn I read on CNN somewhere that his car wasn't suffering from the same problems that Toyota is in the news for.
 
Meghan54 said:
1. If he filed for bankruptcy, depending upon which Chapter he filed, he may be completely clear of all debt right now. Ch. 7 would have cleared all of it; Ch. 13 means he's making payments over several years to repay the debt. In either case, he's NOT $700,000 in debt.

2. I seriously doubt he was ever 5 months behind on his Prius payments. Finance companies, be they banks or dealer or whatever, usually repossesses at 90 days behind. Certainly by 5 months overdue, his car would have been taken.

3. If he's in Ch. 13, he cannot be behind on his car payment anyway....the car's payments are taken over by the bankruptcy court and paid off via the court. He'd only make a monthly payment to the court each month in the amount designated by the court.....the car payment would be taken out of that, essentially removing him from any direct responsibility in that area. If the payments are behind right now, it'd be the court's fault, not his. Again, this is if he's in Ch. 13.

4. And what was the point of showing he's filed ins. claim for stolen articles from a car of his? That doesn't prove anything except trying to scandalize the article even more.
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And monkeys fly out of my ass...
 
Nik said:
I could have sworn I read on CNN somewhere that his car wasn't suffering from the same problems that Toyota is in the news for.
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I think I remember reading that the Prius wasn't recalled for stuck acceleration. Maybe for the floormat though.
 
gorcorps said:
You still need a fucking key to activate the button... christ. Otherwise anybody could smash a window, push a button and take off.
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Keyless fobs. 😀 (I'd freakin love to have a keyless fob on my keychain that auto-unlocks my car when I get close. Hop in, push button, drive off!)
 
Why is the guy in the video wearing a ninja mask? Is he too afraid of the ridicule he'd get from actually owning/driving a Prius or something?
 
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