pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/sedans/" rel="tag"Sedans/Saloons/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/recalls-tsbs/" rel="tag"Recalls/TSBs/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/safety/" rel="tag"Safety/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/hatchbacks/" rel="tag"Hatchbacks/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/toyota/" rel="tag"Toyota/a/pimg vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/01/toyota_yaris_rec.jpg" /br /br /The 2006 and 2007 model a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/06/07/in-the-autoblog-garage-2008-toyota-yaris-liftback/"Toyota Yaris/a is being recalled over a seat belt problem. In severe frontal crashes, a foam pad could reportedly ignite. The recall affects 1.3 million Yaris' (Yarises? Yarii?) worldwide, with 134,900 of those residing in the States. br /br /Toyota is working with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to administer the recall. The fix evidently takes an hour at the dealership, and affected owners should begin receiving letters next week. According to Toyota officials, NHTSA has logged no reports of pad ignition in an actual consumer crash.br /br /[Source: a href="http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090128/AUTO01/901280448/1148/rss25"Detroit News/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/28/toyota-recalls-1-3m-yaris-models-which-begs-the-question-what/"Toyota recalls 1.3M Yaris models, which begs the question: What's the plural of Yaris?/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:59:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090128/AUTO01/901280448/1148/rss25Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/28/toyota-recalls-1-3m-yaris-models-which-begs-the-question-what/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1443596/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/28/toyota-recalls-1-3m-yaris-models-which-begs-the-question-what/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/2unT5JatABWKR9vnKBhwrIn8e8o/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/2unT5JatABWKR9vnKBhwrIn8e8o/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=P96zJ86V"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=P96zJ86V" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=LFSUQB9e"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=LFSUQB9e" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/GflIjZdRV24" height="1" width="1"/

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