Toyota and Daihatsu have announced that they have completed internal re-inspection of the R135 pole side crash test for the Toyota Raize Hybrid/Daihatsu Rocky Hybrid and the vehicle has passed the test.
In the UN R135 test, a pole-like pole or similar object is impacted against the vehicle’s wall. In this test, left and right tests must be performed and test data must be submitted.
What happened was that the passenger-side test was done properly, but for the driver-side test, Daihatsu sent the passenger-side test data instead of the driver-side test data. This was discovered through an internal audit of its certification practices.
The re-inspection was carried out on Wednesday, May 24, 2023 at the Daihatsu Shiga Technical Center in Japan. At this time, these results are still considered internal testing and have not been confirmed by the certification body. Daihatsu and Toyota will carry out the necessary procedures to continue selling Toyota Raize Hybrid and Rocky Hybrid, including re-inspection in the presence of certification bodies.
A total of 78440 cars are affected including 22,329 Rocky hybrids and 56,111 Raize hybrids.
