Cam tower leak

Not looking good here. Only 32k miles on my 21 nightshade limited. Right driver passenger side.

 

I have it done on my 2018 at 21k miles. Thing is 200k miles on its 3rd owner and no issues.

 

Truck sounds and runs the same? Debating about trading it in but so many issues with the 3rd generations too

 

Yeah ran great. I ran it until 100k miles. Absolutely zero issues. My biggest regret is trading that truck in. The next owner drove it another 50k miles and then gave it to his son for his 16th bday. Still no issues.

 

Taking it in tomorrow. Hopefully the techs there know what they are doing.

 

Took my 2017 in around 30K miles for the drivers side cam tower leak. Toyota first called mine “seepage” and said it was normal. Next visit I brought it up again and they took care of it (mid 2018?). I’m just shy of 94K miles now and it’s been dry ever since. Don’t trade it in over that. You will regret it later.

 

"Seepage" lol. They better not give me the that excuse also. My truck haven't even been broken into yet haha.

 

Anyone have more photos? Would like to throughly check mine. Thanks!

 

First 21 I've heard of with the leak.

Where are you located (climate), oil change intervals? What Oil used?

Are there known contributing factors to developing the leak or is it totally random based on how well the FIBG robot was working that day?

 

I live in Wisconsin...the rust belt. Oil change every 5k with 0w-20 at the dealership. Just one of the unlucky ones I guess.

 

I still have no clue where this is that people talk about and its probably better off since its never actually caused any damaged engines, you'd lose more oil through evaporation than these "leaks" that never even reach the ground.

 

I am not even sure I can see oil in OPs pictures

 

This droplet looks like the worst of it. Good chance just a switch to 5w30 would stop it from leaking/slow it to being not noticeable (and result in less wear metals in the oil). Maybe I’d have it fixed under warranty, but I definitely wouldn’t pay thousands to fix it.

 

Same. 2016 and never got the dreaded cam tower leak

 

Mine did the same at 23k miles. Switched to pennzoil platinum at 30k and haven’t seen a drop since. Just turned 85k miles.

 

If it helps I had both sides of mine done at 28k miles and is a 2021

 

So these cam towers never leaked until Toyota switched the oil requirement to 0W-20? What year was that? Implying that just switching to 5w-30 stops the leak immediately?