Archive for September, 2010

UAW Recruits Toyota’s Georgetown Workers In Odd Ways

Earlier this week, a Toyota factory worker from Kentucky contacted us to share a link to NoUAW.com. According to this website’s about page it was created by some current employees at Toyota’s plant in Georgetown, Kentucky (known as TMMK in Toyota circles) who aren’t too happy with UAW efforts to unionize their plant.

TMMK currently builds the Camry, Avalon, and Venza

Operating since 1986, TMMK is one of Toyota’s oldest US facilities, as well as Toyota’s largest plant outside Japan. TMMK employs about 6,500 workers and builds 500,000 vehicles each year. Mostly, these vehicles are Camrys, but TMMK also builds the Avalon and the Venza. Arguably, TMMK is Toyota’s most important plant in the United States…which is one of the reasons the UAW has tried to take over the plant for the last 20+ years.

Why Do Mid-Term Elections Impact GM’s IPO?

There are a lot of strong opinions about the auto industry bailout, pro and con. Like a lot of complicated issues, arguments from both sides have merit. However, it’s not as if the decision to bailout GM and Chrysler is recent. We all know it happened, we all have our opinions, and that ought to be the end of it.

But it’s not.

GM, it seems, is delaying their IPO until after the Nov. 2nd mid-term elections. What in the world do elections have to do with GM’s IPO?

Reseting The Tundra’s Oil Change Reminder Light

Do you do your own oil changes? If so, you might be wondering how to reset the oil change reminder light. The instructions below tell you how to reset your oil change light, aka “maintenance light” on your 2007 or newer Toyota Tundra.

Do Daytime Running Lights Really Make Us Safer?

Earlier this week we published instructions on how to disable daytime running lights on a second generation Tundra, and one of the first comments on that post was, Why disable daytime running lights in the first place?

My initial response was “why not?”, but that’s really not much of an answer. So, I did a little digging into the safety benefits of daytime running lights. Here’s what I found:

2nd Gen Tundra Daytime Running Lights Removal Mod

Do you own a 2007+ Tundra? Does it have daytime running lights? Do you wish that it didn’t?

If so, this is the post for you. Here is how you go about removing the daytime running lights feature from your 2007+ Toyota Tundra.