San Diego BS Thread.

yeah toyota dealers suck with customer warranty issues. lol gtr warranty claims

 

fucking toyota of el cajon will clean oil off of a car with a leak under warranty and not bring it up with the customer till its out of warranty... fuckers...


should clarify that I dont have anything to prove this but its what I was told

 

Toyota Carlsbad did right by me. Found out that one of the nutzerts for my hood wasn't in good shape - tried a hood swap in Vegas with a poor guy that drove all the way from Utah to meet me, only to discover that one of the four bolts that retain the hood wouldn't come out. Took it to Carlsbad once I was back in town and it took some effort by my service manager but Toyota replaced the hood and painted it under warranty without much effort from me.

Unfortunately I ended up with an identical hood due to warranty replacement rules, rather than the hood I wanted, but they covered the hood, paint, and my loaner car on my 2015.

 

I've had pretty good experiences with getting warranty work done on the Tacoma

• I had TSB 4-leaf pack done by Toyota of San Deigo, which was a fight
• Toyota SD solved a body creak noise
  
• Toyota SD put the updated TSB intermediate steering shaft in my truck.
• Toyota El Cajon replaced a 3rd member / diff gasket at 20K
• Toyota El Cajon also replaced my headlights under TSB, no problems.
  
• I also had a number of other minor TSBs performed at Toyota El Cajon that I can't remember.

 

I was a Heavy line team leader at Toyota Carlsbad for many years and all my techs were good guys and we didnt have any shady service writers and the shop foreman was a good guy. But that was a LOOOOONG tima ago, so I doubt anybody but the owner is still there now.

 

the service writers at el cajon toyota got me new headlights when i went there simply to buy some fluids for the wife's 09. apparently the truck was still under some kind of tsb/warranty extension which covered the turn signal lenses melting/cracking.

 

I need an FJ Cruiser like yesterday. New bumper finish work before it's time to get jiggly with it. Anyone have one laying around?

 

King Coils for Sale New $1250 (San Diego)

King Extended Travel 2.5" Coilovers with External Reservoir

Never used, just took out of box to take pic and went back into box. Hate to get rid of shocks but trading in taco for another car.

 

I also have had mostly great service at Toyota Carlsbad. I try to have Dave Ramstead be my service writer when I go there, but really, anyone else should be fine.

The only negative was with my 2005 Tacoma and how (back then) they refused to do anything about the rear suspension issues and said the bottoming-out on speed bumps was "normal"... but there was a TSB (this was before I knew about Tacoma World and TSBs).

Of course now, I go to Jason "Speed Freek" for most of my Tacoma mechanical needs! The front hub replacement being the most notable excellent service, as well as my new Bilstein 5100 shocks he installed, new brake pads, the two differentials and transfer case fluid changing, etc.

 

Thanks David!
And Dave Ramstead is still there!!!? Wow, he was there when I was a tech...

 

Jeff I think I found you an FJ. He's gonna text you now

 

anyone interested in going to otay truck trail with me in my stockass 2wd first gen prerunner and some 4runner buddies? if so pm me, we're meeting at a gas station at 11am, dont know the address yet

 

If I were in San Diego....

 

If you would like to run otay truck trail with me and some friends tomorrow morning, 5/1/16, we're meeting at 1497 piper ranch road San Diego, CA 92154 at 10:45am

its a pilot travel gas station near the border. Feel free to pm me with any questions, or if you want to come, in case you are late we know to wait

 

Thanks for the feedback guys.

Oddly enough my friend's brand new 2016 Tacoma has the same weird bump on his steering wheel.

The picture below is for reference and not mine, but the left side (red circle) is perfect whereas the right side is not; it is bunched/lumped up where they meet.

I guess I feel better my friend's '16 isn't perfect either.

 

This is the thread you wanna post in if actually like to meet us weirdos on the internet and do stuff. We just talk big in here or maybe give out some helpful advise.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/san-diego-southern-cali-meets.314874/

 

well shit. im new in town. (whereas town means tw) thanks! ill be sure to post there next time

 

No prob. A good amount of guys in the sd meet thread do that trail so it won't be hard to get a few trucks out there with you.

 

my truck had a piss poor time today. i DESTROYED my tires. too many rocks couldnt grip literally anything and got lost. had to have the border patrol let us out -_- and i was with people who went a handful of times already. he lead we got lost. ugh.

 

So I went to Toyota Carlsbad for my 20k service and requested they disable the seat belt chime and said with my job I'm constantly in/out of the truck.... long story short they said it was for liability and then came back later in my appointment and said even if they wanted to they couldn't.

Was I being fed BS or has anyone else had success with getting it disabled on a 2015 Taco?