New open recall for 2018-2019s on 3/28/19...K0B Millimeter Wave Radar Sensor

but the other said it's to help "obsorb" radar reflection.

That dude played you.

 

I had my service adviser try to tell me the foam cushion was to "help absorb the radar"... which is BS. If that was the case, they would have all came WITH the foam from the factory already. Such BS. The "foam cushion" or "foam pad" or "foam sheet" or whatever you want to call it, is to help prevent water intrusion. If you read the "special service campaign" it says right in there that they will perform the "application of sealer to the millimeter wave radar sensor" - so why lie to us and make up the BS about the foam pad being there to "help absorb radar?" Ughhhh

 

What dealership?????

The modification was for eliminating water intrusion as far as I was told and looked at?

 

Roseville Toyota here in Sacramento

 

Larry H Miller, COS.

I know its for water intrusion. When the dealer told me it was to help "absorb radar" I LOL'd to myself.

I just took my truck in for the 15K maintenance a week ago. About 3 weeks ago, on two different occasions, in rain storms, the PCS disabled itself (dash icon illuminated). It didnt auto brake for me, but disabled PCS. After it stopped raining, the dash icon went away. Anyways, after the visit to the dealer, they did not change my radar unit. Which begs the question, what exactly has to happen to "store error codes" to cause them to replace the radar? The self-disabling of the PCS didnt cause the right codes to be stored, I suppose. Maybe you have to have the situation where the brakes are falsely applied? But how does the radar know if the brakes being applied is a false positive or not? Get what I'm saying? I came away from the dealer with a fancy foam sheet, and and update to the PCS software. Which, that's a whole other confusing matter.... If my current radar disabled itself in a rain storm, I dont understand how a foam sheet and a reprogram "fixes" the issue. I get that they think the foam sheet might help water intrusion, but what code are they changing with the reprogram? If my radar is prone to water leakage, how does a code change fix that?

 

Did you Lift your Taco in ANY way?
Did you change the Grille in ANY way?

If you did not message me.

I have already contacted corporate on this.

 

No lift. No grille change. No suspension change. Nada. Zilch. I did put new tires on her. Same size as stock, but because they arent stock firestones, they'll blame those.

 

PM SENT!

 

This kind of goes to my initial question; obviously I'm not the only one who was told it was to absorb radar reflections. The service department had to get that idea in their head from somewhere, right?I imagine some dealer tech was questioning cooperate about all this and got something like "well, its supposed to help with water but maybe itll help absorb radar, we don't really know how to fix the problem" th

Just out of curiosity what would the benifiet be for contacting corporate in his situation? They performed the entirety of the service bulletin.

 

The service bulletin has been out there for a bunch.........

From what I can gather.....simply preventing water intrusion.

 

OUT! Folks take a peek at the threads on the TSS issues for folks under the voluntary recall from Toyota.

Chat with your dealer about it.

 

I took mine in today and I will check it out. When I drove home I thought they did something with the tranny because it seemed to hold first gear much longer then usual, I was pleased driving home. I did not see any mention they did for updates etc. now I just rolled 1500 miles on mine and I thought I was in ECT but was not the case. I did see my boot was down a little so maybe he was in there messing around.
If it keeps driving for the better I am going to call and ask about this

 

Not certain why that happened........

I'll watch mine when I get back from a doctor appt.

 

I tried to look,is there a certain thread, maybe provide a link for me

 

Search TSS or Milli wave stuff

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...8-19-k0b-millimeter-wave-radar-sensor.602113/

OR

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...rding-trucks-with-pro-grills-or-lifts.608494/

 

OK thanks Mike

 

Cheers...hope it helped!

 

24k and no problems, sooo, guess who won't be going to the stealership

 

Hey sorry for the late reply, not sure if you've had this done yet. Like pop.tremuloides said, talk to your dealer before scheduling your appointment. I found out about the recall right after I ordered an OEM TRD Pro grill and before my son installed it for me, I had him call the service department and make sure they wouldn't have an issue performing the recall work on it with my Pro grill installed. They said if it's an OEM toyota part that it wouldn't be a problem, so my kid did the install and took it in maybe a week later for the repair. The only thing he did prior to taking it in is remove my raptor lights, which was quick and easy...after they did the repair he re-installed them.

--JQ