A Kiwi businessman has come out tops over big-time car manufacturer Toyota, after a replacement key remote cost him more than $500. Funnell told a disputes tribunal he felt the excessive cost showed Toyota was taking advantage of its customers - something the latter denied. Fairfax said tribunal referee Clayton Luke said the most - but still reasonable - a key would cost was about $200. Luke said Toyota's claim had been misleading and that it did not disclose a "significant portion'' of the price charged by the dealership, Armstrongs Auckland. "I am satisfied that the price charged by Armstrongs was not a price whereby Toyota New Zealand could say the keys as spare parts are reasonably available,'' Luke said.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 10, 2017 02:48 UTC