{"id":233030,"date":"2022-10-06T12:57:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T16:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=233030"},"modified":"2022-10-06T16:20:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T20:20:02","slug":"toyota-fixes-bz4x-wheels-restarts-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2022\/10\/toyota-fixes-bz4x-wheels-restarts-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota Fixes BZ4X Wheels, Restarts Production"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Toyota announced it has fixed the problem that had the wheels falling off the new\u00a0bZ4X electric crossover<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0The company said it\u2019s resumed production of the bZ4X and\u00a0the related Subaru Solterra<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0on the EV assembly line in Motomachi, Japan.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Toyota recalled 2,700 bZ4X crossover due to an issue with the vehicle’s wheels. The problem’s been resolved and production has resumed.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The automaker\u2019s report to the Japanese ministry of transport revealed heavy braking and sharp turns could cause a hub bolt to come loose on the vehicle. If this went unnoticed, wheels could break or become completely loose. During the recall period, Toyota also discovered airbags had been improperly installed in some bZ4X units, and that issue has also been addressed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The recall affected about 2,700 units of the bZ4X and 1,600 of the Solterra. However, only Toyota had begun customer deliveries, with about 270 vehicles in North America. Toyota previously offered to buy back or hold the recalled vehicles<\/a><\/u><\/strong> for customers until a repair was developed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feeling bad<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The Subaru Solterra is basically the twin of the Toyota bZ4X, and suffered from the same issue, but it hadn’t distributed any of the vehicles.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

“We apologize again for the concern, anxiety, and inconvenience we have caused to our customers, our dealers and our stakeholders,” Toyota Executive Vice President Masahiko Maeda said, according to a Reuters report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toyota isn’t saying much about the issue, including how much this stumble was going to cost, but it appears the problem was with the wheels and not in the vehicle design. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is embarrassing to say that we had done various assessments, but we couldn\u2019t detect this problem because we didn\u2019t conduct the assessments based on a premise that the quality of wheels would be so off in the assessment process,\u201d Maeda said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fix for the bZ4X and Solterra involves new hub bolts and new wheels. Toyota said that replacement parts would be available by November and that all bZ4X customers would have the new parts installed at no charge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a fix in place for the vehicles, production of the two crossovers has resumed. Toyota did not say when the bZ4X will be back on sale in America, but the company plans to begin new deliveries in Japan by the end of October.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toyota has fixed the problem that had the wheels falling off its new bZ4X all-electric crossover. The company has resumed production of the BZ4X and the related Subaru Solterra. Find out more at TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20027,"featured_media":227641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2209,7,8,5,10,2648,12],"tags":[485,2431,8147,543,8146],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20027"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233030"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233038,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233030\/revisions\/233038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233030"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=233030"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=233030"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=233030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}