1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

It all plays out to be a numbers game.

If the sales department expects to sell X amount of cars, then the service department has to be equipped to cater to Y amount of work.

Z will be everyone else that's a service dept. customer which is another factor figured out separately.

You have lube techs, you've got your master techs/foreman which for the most part do customer pay, you've got 1 or 2 that specialize in a few things (most likely your master tech/foreman), and everyone else that take care of recalls, medium sized jobs, PDI's etc.

 

22 cents

 

How is it morning for you and your battery is already at 39%

 

I'm starting to see some patterns here.. have you every been diagnosed with anxiety?

 

I’m the truck guy. And I deal with the older cars. Me and one other dude. Give any other tech a Toyota older than 01 and they have no clue what’s going on

 

Lol if you send him to Web MD, we'll never see him again

"Local man donates himself to science; believes to have super aids, adhd, etc. etc. etc. all to find a cure that could save mankind"

 

I’ve been up since 4:30 with music playing

 

So my buddy works at a dodge dealer... I guess they had a salesman sell himself a brand new car for $500 and he’s run away to new Vegas with his stripper girlfriend and left his wife... uhhhh

 

no i may now have exposed wiring ready for the rodents to eat at in my engine compartment

 

Decent

 

Sales person can't sell himself a car

 

depression too, it runs in the family, my younger brothers (twins) were a total mess for many years until their psychiatrist got them on the proper meds

 

Don’t ask me. There’s a warrant out for his arrest! Lol

 

so far my truck has been extremely low maintenance mechanically, nothing but scheduled maintenance for over 22 years!

 

So he stole it, ouch.

CA DMV came up with the great idea to have dealers issue temporary plates beginning January 1st of this year; the intent behind that is for law enforcement to be able to find vehicles easily and so CA can get its revenue from those that fly through toll booths or roads and avoid paying their fees.

If your vehicle has no plate and instead is carrying that dealer-advertised piece of paper, law enforcement will pull you over right away in CA.

 

wth

 

Wants to prevent holes in frame. Drills big ass hole in frame to prevent more holes. Cant rust out if theres nothing there to rust

 

Wow, yeah you do. Who'd a thunk cats can actually save you money?

 

Jokes on him, my 99 self drilled holes

I’m pretty sure the dirt in the 99’s frame makes up half the weight*

 

old article from 2oo8 ... why i did not hear about it until late '10 is still a mystery to me!!!

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...buy-back-rusted-tacomas-idUSN0729075220080508

Toyota to buy back rusted Tacomas


DETROIT (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp has offered to buy back Tacoma pickup trucks with frames rusted beyond repair and to extend the warranty on over 800,000 of the vehicles in North America.

The unusual customer-service action comes amid slumping U.S. truck sales and at a time when the world’s No. 1 automaker faces new scrutiny after a string of glitches that has threatened to mar its industry-leading reputation for quality.

Toyota is offering to buy back Tacoma trucks built between 1995 and 2000 with frames deemed to be so badly rusted they cannot be repaired at one and a half times the most generous resale value as calculated by Kelly Blue Book.

In addition, the Japanese automaker will extend the warranty on Tacoma frames from the standard 3-years or 36,000 miles to 15 years with unlimited mileage for the rust problem.

The cost of the sweeping buyback and extended warranty program was not clear. A Toyota spokesman could not be immediately reached for comment at the automaker’s Los Angeles-area sales headquarters.


A Toyota letter to its North American dealers outlining the terms of the action and other company documents pertaining to the problem with Tacoma frames rusting were posted on the Web site of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Auto Safety.

Toyota said it expected that a small number of the 813,000 trucks covered by the action would have frames so rusted it would require a buyback. Those were more likely to be in areas with heavy snow that are exposed to road salt, it said.

The Tacoma frame rust appears to stem from a production problem that kept the components from getting enough undercoating when they were built, the automaker said.

Letters to Tacoma customers began going out in March.

Toyota sold 2.41 million vehicles on a global basis in the first quarter, extending its sales volume lead over rival General Motors Corp.

The sales gains have come despite weaker industry sales in the U.S. market, which remains the world’s largest. Toyota U.S. sales were off some 5 percent in April after adjusting for the number of selling days in the month.

Sales of Toyota’s just-introduced Tundra pickup also dropped in April, the first decline since the launch of the launch of the all-new full-size truck in 2007.

Industry-wide U.S. vehicle sales have come under pressure from a weaker U.S. economy and consumer confidence coupled with a shift to more fuel-efficient cars from trucks and sport utility vehicles.