Tundra engine recall - interesting news

$35K is just a giant pile of cash for truck motor. I get it, but it's insane. California is driving this insane train.

Would be nice to see a manufacturer or two just say "Sod it, we don't need to wreck the whole product line for all our customers just to satisfy Gavin Newsom. California, no more trucks for you!" That's shrinking market anyhow.

 

Partial Engine Assembly is a Toyota Long Block. Ask me how I know. They are currently being used for 2024s that have failures. I've seen them in person.

 

May I request a Merlin V12?

 

New engines are not just parts costs but include an overhead burden for design, development, testing and initial tooling. Startup costs to produce a new engine family are not cheap. A crate engine from 20 year old design using available tooling is more just materials, labor and profit costs. The total cost of anything produced long enough tends to be much cheaper in later production runs

 

He got two cease and desists from Toyota due to posting things on here. Then got snipped here and left FB for a while. Now he just popped back up on FB posting things.

He is working on updating the engine failure google doc today. Said there will be more on there after a bit.

 

nah, current one is plenty

 

Touche'

 

Interesting. I never saw any of his posts. Why do you think Toyota wanted him gone?

 

The doc is updated and posted, someone asked him if was going to be back on here and he said he is not....

 

And he updated that his engine failed...I dunno, I might have chuckled just a bit on that one...lol

 

He is back to say his engine blew.

 

Just saw that. His went out at almost 48k miles.

 

ok, how do you know, HA?

 

At least Ryan already has a spare engine.

 

How do you know that he received two Cease & Desists from Toyota?

 

The mods here got a copy of one of them.

 

in some ways, if your keeping the truck, getting a full brand new motor after 48K miles is kinda nice, lol.

 

You’re going to do Another oil change?

 

do you work for toyota, is that what the ask me how I know thing was about?

or did your truck break?

 

He says they won't touch it for repair until the remedy for the recall is out and that Toyota corporate is the worst experience he has had....I wonder why...lol..more chuckles here...

 

why is that funny?

 

Can you link to the doc?

 

It's just funny that a fella that basically poo pooed on people commenting on the engine failures, down playing them while documenting and sharing info they were not supposed to, to the extent that lawyers had to get involved is now having a hard time with said corporation.

 

No to both.

 

So how do you know? You tell us to ask then play games?

 

Friends in the know.

 

You can join the 2022+ Tundra Facebook group and link to it. I am not sharing a link that was already deleted here for various reasons. I enjoy reading the back and forth here on slow work days too much.

 

My friend says your friend is wrong.

 

Wait what. 2024's aren't supposed to be failing.....

 

Ahh gotcha, disregard.