Jesse MadScientist Albert comments

As a former employee of Gulf States Toyota, I can assure you that these types of recalls are done by all major automotive manufacturers. Customer feed back, and logged incident reports happen to all makes and models to every manufacturer on the planet. Toyota takes every claim very seriously, and if one is more frequent than others it is decided after a period of time to make a recall.

If a window motor or wiring harness running to the motor has an increased resistance (mechanically or electronically) , it will generate heat. If there are any types of low flash point materials in the door it will make the chance of a fire increase. It makes more sense for a wire to heat up than a mechanical part on the window track unless binding is occurring, which will raise the amperage of the wire that powers the window motor.

As far as the gas pedal comments go, I was there when that whole fiasco took place, and about 90 percent of the population are misinformed about what the actual problem was, and how the media and government made a mountain out of a problem that really didn't exist. You have to please someone somehow, and the whole situation was handled poorly by the government and Toyota, but Toyota did the best it could to remedy a solution to satisfy customers questions and worries.

Toyota has and always will build a reliable car that will go on for a long time treated properly, as well as Honda, Nissan, and Mazdas. When you go big, you need to improve QA, and sometimes expansion grows too fast for companies to hire and train better and more equipped staff.