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Originally Posted by randy88fj62
Where in CA are you located? You're telling me a Toyota Tech cannot figure out what to do next with your vehicle?
Did the shop put in a brand new oem secondary air injection pump? Did you get your old part back to make sure they actually did it?
While the intake was off the knock sensors and starter should be done. Wasn't a bad job to do over a weekend.
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They did put in a new part, but it was not a Toyota part. The dealership was in Auburn, CA. It wasn't that the tech couldn't necessarily figure it out, but they would not trust any of the work my outside mechanic did so were going to go through it all again, before even getting to the area where the mechanic said would be their next step. This was estimated at around $4k just to identify the issue.
Then, they told me the diagnostic tool didn't pick anything new up and as I needed my car, went to pick it up. When I got there the guy was acting weird and walked me through the dealership service area and out to my car (I thought this was weird as the typically drive your car up to front). He gave me the keys and walked off, saying the diagnostic was waived. When I got in the car, the shifter felt like it was off and then when it went into drive, didn't do anything. I went back in and they said they would take a look. They then told me they 'forgot' to let me know that someone had attempted to steal the vehicle the night before, but couldn't get it out of the lot.
So they basically tried to get me to drive it off the lot knowing it was not working properly. After that the starter went bad, the radiator blew and the battery failed. Since then I've not gone back to any dealership.