Toyota: New gas pedals en route to dealers

? Toyota said it began shipping gas pedal parts to its dealers Friday for use in fixing the millions of cars and trucks recalled because of accelerators that could become stuck.

Company spokesman Brian Lyons said he did not know when the parts would arrive or how long it would take the automaker to complete repairs on the 4.2 million vehicles worldwide — 2.3 million of them in the U.S. — covered by the recall. He said Toyota has not yet decided whether to repair the accelerators or replace them altogether.

Toyota will release details sometime next week about how it intends to solve the problem, Lyons said.

Until Friday, Toyota had been sending the components to its factories, angering some dealers who have not had parts to repair their customers’ cars since the recall was announced on Jan. 21. But Lyons vehemently denied any suggestion that the factories were being given priority over dealerships, as some dealers suspected.