Published: Wednesday, 10th February, 2010 6:00pm

Mullingar Toyota dealer ready to fix all problems

Grange Motors based at Loughsheever business park, Mullingar's main Toyota dealer are well-equipped and will be on stand by from Monday next (February 15) to deal with accelerator pedal modifications needed on seven models which have been recalled the manufacturer, manager Edward Tyrell said yesterday (Tuesday).

Letters to owners of models of the Toyota AYGO (February 2005 to August 2009), iQ (November 2008 to November 2009), Yaris (November 2005 to September 2009), Auris (February 2007 to November 2009), Corolla (February 2008 to December 2009), Verso (February 2009 to November 2009), Avensis (November 2008 to July 2009) will start going out this week and once the letter has been received, cars can then be taken in for repairs.

"It's a simple modification which takes about 15 minutes and we have a dedicated technican on stand-by so he will be able to do between 15 and 20 cars a day," said Edward.

"In my opinion the issue has been blown out of proportion by the media. We all know what happened to that poor family in the Lexus but the media seems to have used that. I would say that zero cars in Ireland have gone out of control.

"I don't have the exact figure for how many local cars we would be dealing with because the letters are going out from head office. But we do sell seven of the models that require the modification.

"The 1.4 petrol Corolla and 1.4 petrol Auri, which are our most popular models by far, they are nearly staples, are not affected.

The initial figure given by Toyota for Ireland was 30,000 cars but that has been reduced to 18,000. I would also like to say that no Lexus cars have been recalled.

"The modification has been tested and our mechanics will be doing further training this Thursday, we will then do our own stock and by Monday of next week we will be ready to start on customer's cars.

"There is no excessive work involved, this is a quick fix that works," he said.

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