The Yaris escaped problems by being built in Japan?

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Originally Posted by 41magmag41

I beg to differ with you about being built in Japan. The yaris has a TSB from june of '08 telling the dealers that there may be a problem with the rear wheel speed sensors and wiring harness of the ABS system giving up the ghost because of salt and malfunctioning..

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additionally, wasnt there an issue with the belt tensioner that involved possible fire with the Japanese made Yaris?? was there not a recall?

in 2006, Toyota sent assembly line managers and execs to the Cambridge plant in Canada to because the cars coming out of there were having less problems per 100 vehicles than the ones being built in Japan (my future BIL works for Toyota in Japan) and they wanted to figure out why. the same quality control procedures are in place, but the conclusion was that the moral of Japanese workers was lower than the workers in Cambridge. (no wonder, as they no longer enjoy a lifetime of employment security the way their parents did--welcome to the crappy economy)

Toyota in Japan is under the same pressures to source their parts from the cheapest possible source while still trying to balance that out with quality of the parts.