Toyota, this is unacceptable!

I bought a new Toyota Corolla 2013 (South Africa) back in 2015. I have since been driving it without issues. However, something mysterious happened on the 3rd of June, 2020.

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On the day before (2nd of June), I returned home around 7:30pm, and parked the car without any issue. To my utter shock, my neighbours woke me up around 7:00am the following day (3rd June) to inform me that my car was on fire.

It sounded like a joke; for a car parked twelve hours ago to catch fire all by itself. "This has to be a sabotage", I whispered to myself before I quickly got dressed and went to check, and alas, she was on fire!

But my very good neighbours were already ensued in a fight with the fire, and the only thing I did was to open the car for them to finish the last flame with their extinguishers. I'm deeply grateful to their good neighbourliness.

When the emergency was dealt with, I began to search for answers to this mystery, and what I learned was more shocking than the mystery.

My mechanic told me that that particular version (2012-13, South Africa) of Toyota Corolla had a flawed breaking system design, which caused it to catch fire by itself, even if the car was off for a long time.

Not entirely convinced, I called another mechanic for a second opinion, who drove me to his workshop, where he showed me another burnt Toyota Corolla like mine, and told me the same thing happened to her.

He also told me about another one that caught fire in the middle of the night, which eventually burnt another vehicle and an adjoining building. He said "Oga, all countries rejected this car, but Nigeria allowed it. It is sad".
He told me many people were changing the breaking system to American version of the same car.

I have decided to put this here so that others don't become victims of this professional negligence by Toyota, and regulatory failure by Nigeria.

I also want to put this here so that our government will understand the cost of not having an efficient regulatory system for quality and standards.
I also want this here so that Toyota's brand will pay for their design error, they way we paid with our resources (and probably, our lives). This type of error should not be allowed to happen again.

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Sorry oo

Nigeria, the junkyard of the world

One guy is currently working on this car to sell as neatly used 2012 Corolla

I read similar story on this forum last year, but it's toyota camry

My problem now is that self isolation is making people dislike me. U refuse to shake people and they get pissed. I am trying to protect people and they are angry about it.

that's anoda advantage of insurance

Toyota again.

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Wonders shall never end .. Wetin Abba Kyari no go see inside Hell Fire.

Same happened to my former Avensis.

Damn

..why did Nigeria allow such car

Sorry man...God will provide a more better one

Bros hold the giant rats for your compound responsible.

Hmmm...

Sorry bro,

Really nice of you bringing this here, lessons learnt.

God's gonna give u bigger and better one just for this honest gesture.

Very unfortunate. God will replenish you to get something better and bigger.

Going by that burnt engine bay, fixing that Corrolla will cost almost the price of a Tokunbo one ....

And there won't be any guarantee that it will function optimally...

God bless you for the information. You may never know how many lives and properties you've saved cos our society is a very ignorant one.

Stay safe and good luck Jawbone!

Buhari is not on this forum and even if he is,he can neither read or comprehend this post.

this is the crap car that yahoo boys in ilesha carry up and down...crap

wtf...i don't believe this a braking system malfunction.
usually such occurrences will make Toyota recall all this models back for corrections or refunds.

I will like to read a scientific or mechanical proof to this happening, it's quite weird.

anyway I have never been a fan of this car.

Sorry � I hope are you not a smoker

Sorry

I sell cars never heard of this before however it's noted

I deal on majorly Lexus products

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