Toyota oil hose fix to reach 1.6 mln cars globally

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TOKYO, March 2 (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) said on Tueday that its campaign to replace oil hoses that could potentially leak and damage the engine would reach 1.6 million cars globally.

Toyota had said on Monday that it would replace a hose in some 933,800 vehicles in the United States due to the risk of a potential leak and engine failure. [ID:nN0197172]

It is not considered a safety issue and the vehicles are not being recalled, Toyota said.

The 1.6 million figure includes 76,000 car owners in Canada, 45,000 owners in Japan, an additional 315,000 owners in the United States and 230,000 owners in a total of 90 other countries including Europe, a Toyota spokeswoman in Tokyo said.

She declined to provide a cost estimate for the campaign.

Safety issues have already forced Toyota, the world's top automaker, to recall more than 8.5 million vehicles worldwide. (Reporting by Yoshifumi Takemoto; Writing by Nathan Layne; Editing by Hugh Lawson)