3rd Gen clunks and stalls on freeway. gets towed

this made me laugh out loud.

 

Kinda new here, Whats CPS?? and the other one i cant fig out is OP, Whats OP??

 

CPS...Crankshaft Position Sensor.... OP...Original Poster..!! (starter of thread),,
Note... behind the OP's name it will show (OP)... in a thread that he posted..

 

crankshaft position sensor (cps)
original poster (op)

over60, you posted just as I did. oh well duplicate.

 

Beat ya eh...?

 

Just don't make a habit of it.
'Some of my best friends are Canadians.

 

I took a couple with my cell a few weeks back i need to watch and see if you can hear it. Haven't had any time. A while back when i dropped it off for the needle bearing TSB, before the warranty ran out, i brought it up. They said they also did a TSB for pinging, but it had no effect. Couple tanks of high octane gas had no effect. It kinda sounds like pinging and kinda like a heat shield or CAT contents rattling around. Only on hard acceleration. I have other things that bug me about this truck, but nothing major i cant deal with, or fix later when i have the time. I still love the truck and none of this makes me want to get rid of it. Still less headaches than any other vehicle i have had. Just got to figure out the rattle/ping/whatever noise, just to make sure its nothing major, lol.

Sorry OP for thread jack

 

I'm sorry to see you are having problems, hope you get it figured out asap. I think its nice you got a video right when your lights came on. Nothing to add.. just feel bad. Hope your day gets better.

 

Someone actually started a thread with all the different ones on the tow trucks.

 

In that case, here's a shot of the one the dealer bought back, after the second breakdown.

 

I wonder if Seatbelt Mike reads this stuff. Lolz. QDR is def on par with their other trucks. Not.

 

I did a search for people asking. The part number is: 90919-05089

 

Did someone? I suggested it back in the Taco down thread from last week but was too chicken as of the show that would ensue.

Hell, I might do it the next time I'm drunk ......

 

There was definitely one last week that showed owners trucks on flat beds. Not sure if it was its own thread or started inside another one though.

 

UPDATE 5/9/17: And the problem was: FAILED Crank Position Sensor -- as many of you so astutely said. For 2 days, I asked my service tech if it might be the CPS. He said probably not. But turns out it was. I verified that the new CPS is a new model. He said is was "enhanced" from the original.

I'm going to file a complaint with the NHSTB.gov on this issue and I'd encourage others to do the same. Every tech at my dealership knew about the CPS problem. Although the fix was easy, I could have caused serious injury to myself or others if this failure occurred during rush hour. I was driving on the freeway with the car died. Filing with NHTSB is the only way to get Toyota's attention and have this recalled. A recall won't help me, as my CPS has already been replaced, but it may help others or even save a life. So it's worth the 5 minutes on: https://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/Vehic...85.595260264.1494389876-1707369133.1494389876

 

Definitely Money, some egghead beancounter sits around figuring out the costs, the only thing they need to be careful of is a failure out on the interstate causing a deadly accident.

 

Do we know what the build date was on the few 2017s that had CPS failures? I wonder when they started to use the updated CPS in the builds.

 

Hmmm.. notice on the paperwork it states of the CPS: "..found open reading when at operating temp". I realize that this doesn't necessarily mean it was ok at ambient temp, but that's the inference. Some on here have been saying it's a heat soak issue, and it seems they may be right.

I'm any early build '16 and am thinking about this sensor every time I'm in the boonies lol.

Frank