Toyota has been reported to have been losing billions of money due to recent recall of vehicles. At first, Toyota announced two safety recalls that cover some of its Toyota models.

Both Toyota recall campaigns address conditions related to the accelerator pedal. The first Toyota recall, “Floor Mat Entrapment,” regards the potential for an unsecured or incompatible driver’s floor mat to interfere with the accelerator pedal and cause it to get stuck in the wide-open position.

Not long ago after the first Toyota recall, Toyota issued a second recall due to “Gas Pedals”. Toyota said that the issue is being investigated because there is a possibility that certain accelerator pedal mechanisms may mechanically stick in a partially depressed position or return slowly to the idle position.

As part of these Toyota recalls, new Toyota car sales of vehicles subject to the pedal recall have been temporarily suspended until the problem is remedied.

In addition, Toyota temporarily halted production at some of their North American plants to focus their resources on remedying the Toyota vehicles recalled.

If you are interested to know what are the Toyota Models and Years included in the Toyota recall list in January 2010, here are the following Toyota model cars and their model years included in the Toyota recall list:

* 2005-2010 Toyota Avalon
* 2009-2010 Toyota RAV4
* 2007-2010 Toyota Camry
* 2008-2010 Toyota Sequoia
* 2009-2010 Toyota Corolla
* 2005-2010 Toyota Tacoma
* 2008-2010 Toyota Highlander
* 2007-2010 Toyota Tundra
* 2009-2010 Toyota Matrix
* 2009-2010 Toyota VENZA
* 2004-2009 Toyota Prius

With the Toyota Models and Years included in the Toyota recall list written above. Toyota separated it in two categories depending on the issue involved:

Vehicles involved in the Toyota sticking accelerator pedal recall include:

* Certain 2007-2010 Toyota Camry
* Certain 2009-2010 Toyota Corolla
* Certain 2009-2010 Toyota RAV4
* Certain 2010 Toyota Highlander

Vehicles involved in the Toyota floor mat recall include:

* 2007-2010 Toyota Camry
* 2009-2010 Toyota Corolla
* 2008-2010 Toyota Highlander

In addition, Toyota said that Highlander Hybrids and Camry Hybrids are not involved in the sticking accelerator pedal recall and will remain for sale. Further, Toyota car models Camry, RAV4, Corolla and Highlander vehicles with VINs that begin with “J” are not involved in the sticking accelerator pedal recall and will remain for sale. RAV4 is not impacted by the floor mat recall.

If you want to know your Toyota vehicle’s VIN number to know if it was included in the Toyota recall list, you can go here.

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