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"During normal driving operation, the EPS rotation angle sensor terminals may wear over time. This wear of the connector terminal plating accumulates in debris which may oxidise and become non-conductive.
Under this condition if the driver’s knee contacts the knee airbag lower cover, the EPS wire harness routed behind the cover also moves significantly which allows the terminal to contact the debris resulting in electrical contact failure.
In this condition, the EPS ECU turns on the warning light and the steering assist is interrupted whilst manual steering is maintained.
The loss of power steering assist will increase the steering effort at low speeds which may increase the risk of an accident."
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You know, I read about some recalls and I think "you dumshits should have seen this one coming from a mile away- well no duh" and I can only blame the company for a crappy design. Then there's this. I find it hard to blame Toyobaru for this because that is a pretty specific set of circumstances and a strange problem that I don't know if it could be engineered around since there's no way they could have seen it coming. I'm glad that it's being covered and recalled and they aren't playing games.