Honestly, I can't remember how many times I had to have my old Ford Ranger in the shop for brake issues before I got rid of it. I never heard of wide sweeping problems because I never looked.

The issue is, the more people you have sharing information, the more ups and downs you have -- usually just downs because people don't report the ups. This gives us a better picture of the situation but there are two problems. First, it is skewed to the downs. Second, there are still thousands of people not reporting.

Why be worried about a car because a few people (out of thousands) had a weird problem?

That said, I do feel like there are some portions of the 2007's that were rushed and it seems Toyota took some steps to correct these in the 2008 model. Of course this does not help those of us with the 2007 and it does not mean the 2008 is problem free. No piece of machinery is.

I will say that these warning lights -- often dummy lights -- suck. Sometimes they go off because some sensor some where failed and it makes it look like the problem is far worse than it really is.

Good luck Katie!!! Please let us know how it goes.

Mike