Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Report: Dana coughs up $25M to Toyota over rusty Tacoma frames



If a car manufacturer is forced to issue a recall, the defective part or feature of the rule, the fault of the car manufacturer or the OEM supplier to a contract. In the case of the Toyota Tacoma - part of a 110,000-unit recall in 2009 - was the problem appears to the supplier are followed. And now the supplier is forced to pay for their mistakes.

The company in question reportedly is Dana, the Ohio-based OEM supplier provides (among other components) axles and drive shafts for cars, commercial vehicles and construction equipment. In this case, it provided the framework for the Tacoma pickup truck, found rust when exposed to road salt.

Although in 2010, Dana sold the plant that produced the framework for Mexican conglomerate Grupo Porza Metalsa's subsidiary, as the component in question was built before the sale (1995 to 2000), Dana has allegedly been forced to shell out $ 25,000,000 to Toyota about the problem.

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