Toyota refuses to pay out on warranty after car fire for very surprising reason

Toyota has refused to salary retired a GR Corolla proprietor aft their car caught connected occurrence while driving connected a engaged highway.

The Japanese automaker said nan warranty would not screen nan harm because nan tires are only designed to beryllium driven astatine speeds of up to 85mph.

Car experts said they had ne'er heard of specified a norm before.  

The driver was travelling down a North Carolina highway astatine astir that velocity successful June this twelvemonth erstwhile his car burst into flames. 

When nan conveyance proprietor sewage successful touch pinch Toyota to look into replacing nan vehicle, nan institution denied work - stating that nan GR Corolla 'should not beryllium driven complete 85 mph without "high-speed capacity tires"'. 

Toyota were alert of nan velocity because nan driver had captured nan terrifying moment on a dashcam, which grounds nan speed, day and time, and sent it to them arsenic portion of his claim. 

The footage shows nan driver managed to propulsion complete to nan broadside of nan roadworthy and get retired of nan car earlier flames tin beryllium seen billowing up from nan motor and consuming nan beforehand of nan vehicle.

'The owner's manual warns not [to] thrust successful excess of nan velocity limit,' Toyota wrote successful its consequence to nan owner, Car Scoops reported. 

'Even if nan ineligible velocity limit permits it, do not thrust complete 85 mph unless your conveyance has high-speed capacity tires,' it explained. 

'Driving complete 85 mph whitethorn consequence successful tyre failure, nonaccomplishment of power and imaginable injury. 

'Be judge to consult a tyre trader to find whether nan tires connected your conveyance are high-speed capacity tires aliases not earlier driving astatine specified speeds. 

'Based connected our inspection findings and nan facts relating to this incident, we cannot supply immoderate assistance successful this matter,' it concluded. 

However, nan GR Corolla comes pinch Michelin rubber rated good supra 85 mph, according to Car Scoops.

Indeed, little rated tires are usually recovered connected trailers and for spare wheels, nan outlet reported. 

It is not yet clear what tires nan proprietor had connected nan conveyance astatine nan clip aliases whether they scheme to entreaty nan warranty decision. 

Some successful nan car organization person branded nan manufacturer's consequence arsenic 'absolutely insane.'

'There’s a batch to unpack here,' car blogger The Autopian wrote, 'little of which makes Toyota look good.

The Autopian argues that Toyota's questioning of nan tyre value is 'absolutely bizarre' and that claiming 85 mph is excessively accelerated for nan car arsenic 'ludicrous.'

'You cognize what tin grip 85 mph? Pretty overmuch each car sold successful America since 1983,' nan blog wrote. 

Toyota did not instantly respond to nan DailyMail.com's petition for comment.