PSA Peugeot Citroen Recalls Autos Made With Toyota (More faulty CTS Corp pedals)

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January 30, 2010, 04:31 PM EST More From Businessweek

By Rudy Ruitenberg and Cornelius Rahn

Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) -- PSA Peugeot Citroen, Europe’s second-largest automaker, will recall more than 90,000 cars because they may share a gas-pedal flaw that prompted Toyota Motor Corp. to recall millions of vehicles.

The action affects about 10 percent of Peugeot 107 and Citroen C1 models sold throughout Europe, or fewer than 100,000 vehicles, said Jean-Marc Sarret, a spokesman for the Paris-based carmaker, in a telephone interview today. The accelerator-pedal defect may cause crashes.

The vehicles were made at a plant in the Czech Republic where Toyota and Peugeot Citroen jointly manufacture small cars. The factory is managed by Toyota and produces about 330,000 cars a year, split between the 107, C1 and Toyota Aygo models, according to the venture’s Web site.

“We’ll have the same recall campaign as Toyota for the affected cars,” Sarret said. “The faulty component isn’t used in all the vehicles. It represents about 10 percent of C1s and 107s in circulation.”

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The pedal parts for Toyota and Peugeot were supplied in the U.S. and in Europe by CTS Corp., Juergen Stolze, a spokesman for Toyota in Germany, said today. Toyota has said that customers will get repair details next week and that parts from Elkhart, Indiana-based CTS will be replaced or new assemblies will be installed.

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