Desperately Need Help From Toyota Techs

[KidVermicious]

Wow. I gotta say, I'd be on the horn with Toyota, I'd be talking to a lawyer about my legal options, I'd be slamming those guys to the BBB and every online review forum I could find, I'd let 'em have it. I'd pay a bum to stand on the sidewalk in front of their lot with a sign that says "THIS TOYOTA SERVICE DEPARTMENT WILL CHARGE YOU $3763 TO NOT FIX YOUR VEHICLE" and a stack of handouts describing in detail exactly how badly they treated you. I would make it my life's mission to vigorously rail them up the ass at every. single. opportunity, and then I'd ask them if they want sand with that, and then I'd laugh maniacally and cover their naked butts with paper cuts and pour lemon juice on 'em.

I get being stumped by a repair issue, but what kind of clownshoes outfit screws up an isolation procedure that badly and then tells the unsatisfied customer to basically F off? If it were me, it'd be game on. It'd be war.

Glad you got it resolved anyway. What an odyssey.

 

[1engineer]

So sit down with the dealership owner and tell him you want your money back for screwing up your truck by adding water to the tank.

 

[02SE]

upon pulling the old fuel tank, I find a severely rusted fuel pump to tank gasket mounting surface. it looked like old shoe leather. when I removed the fuel pump I noticed NO LESS than 2" of water in the bottom of the tank. I had to wait for a new gasket, but at this point I had hope that I had found the problem.

A few days later I replaced the tank and gasket, then I took the truck to the exhaust shop to have the new crap welded in.

I am happy to report, I have been driving the truck for more than a week and a full tank of gas, and not one engine light or misfire.


Dealer's failed trouble shooting $3763
My Failed trouble shooting $325
Fuel tank $200
Gasket $11
Catalytic Converters $265
O2 Sensors $216
Exhaust Repair $291

Finding out the problem was just water.......:tsk: PRICELESS

What kind of incompetent Tech doesn't check for water in the gas? With the 'wonderful' ethanol laced gasoline we are forced to buy these days, water in a gas tank is a common problem.

Ethanol laced gasoline absorbs water, unless that gasoline is used up, eventually it reaches the limit of how much water it can hold in suspension. At that point, phase separation occurs. Which means that the majority of the ethanol combined with the water, will settle at the bottom of the tank. This ethanol/water mix will not burn, and will just corrode any steel parts in contact with it.

Those "Tech's" (and I use that term loosely) are clueless.

I'm glad it's fixed. I hope you find some recourse.