A Toyota company official has admitted that Toyota knew of a problem for two years in the engines of the recently recalled Lexus vehicles but did not issue a recall.
In 2008, Toyota identified that the valve spring in the engines of Lexus vehicles was causing the vehicle to stall while driving. Toyota changed the design of the valve spring making it thicker to fix the defect and prevent vehicles to stall. The new valve spring was installed in new vehicles but no action was taken to recall and replace the valve spring in vehicles already on the road.
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