More headaches for Toyota and its customers. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is reviewing complaints of steering problems in late model Toyota Corollas.

According to Reuters:

The regulators also said they are reviewing dozens of complaints about potential
steering problems in newer Toyota Corollas...

...NHTSA is reviewing dozens of complaints alleging steering problems in 2009 and 2010 Corollas. Motorists have complained of veering.

The agency said it is discussing the matter with Toyota to see if a formal investigation is warranted, a standard thing to do when reviewing complaints.

Coming as this does after Toyota's recalls of millions of vehicles to repair an unintentional acceleration problem and hundreds of thousands of its "halo" car, the Prius, to fix braking irregularities you want to ask, but are almost afraid to, what else can go wrong for Toyota?

By the way, the Washington Post had a piece many will view as damning as far as NHTSA is concerned.

State Farm actually told NHTSA about the unexplained acceleration problem in 2007, more than a year before the agency took action, as far as anyone can tell.

An excerpt:

The warnings, from a firm that maintains a vast store of crash data based on its customer base of more than 40 million, followed a stream of consumer complaints about the alleged defect. Regulators received the warnings more than a year before they pressed the automaker to issue recalls affecting millions of cars and trucks.

 

Congressional investigators are now focusing on whether the government reacted properly to years of complaints and other evidence regarding the acceleration problems. As those investigations get underway, Toyota announced early Tuesday that it would recall its 2010 Prius hybrid vehicles in Japan over brake problems.

The insurer's warnings to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration could add to criticism that the agency missed or overlooked signs of trouble.

"When we see something that might be helpful, we pass it along," said Dick Luedke, a State Farm spokesman.

Luedke declined to go into detail about the alerts, except to characterize them as "numerous" and not "everyday" occurrences. "We track claim data and voluntarily share that data with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration," he said, directing further questions to the agency.