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Mar 3, 2010 5:47 am US/Mountain

Report: Toyota's Repair Not Fixing Recalled Cars

Internal Toyota Documents Related To Recall

(CBS News)

Click to enlarge 1 of 1: A row of brand new Toyota Prius hybrids sit on the sales lot at City Toyota on Feb. 3, 2010, in Daly City, Calif.
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A month after Toyota vowed to fix vehicles that suddenly accelerated, some car owners have already started complaining that the repairs were insufficient, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times Wednesday.

So far, at least seven complaints in the last two weeks have been filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, saying the repairs to pedals and floor mats have not stopped their cars from surging unexpectedly, the paper reports.

Read the Los Angeles Times report

NHTSA has not confirmed the allegations.

"There is already doubt out there that the solutions Toyota has put forward really fix the problem of unintended acceleration," Aaron Bragman, an auto industry analyst told the newspaper.

In one of the reports filed with NHTSA, a 2010 Camry owner who had their car repaired Feb. 12 in Michigan said it accelerated up a snow bank just five days later after receiving special brake override software, the complaint said.

"Had the incident happened one minute earlier, I would have been in a high car/pedestrian area and would not have been able to avoid an accident," the consumer wrote. "The fix done by Toyota is not the fix for the acceleration problem."

Toyota has recalled nearly 10 million vehicles worldwide this year.