Is it true?

We all must trust one instagram commenter and immediately trade all 3rd gens in for the almighty 4th gen

 

See the sticky thread.

Very few posts there, IMO, considering.

 

I agree. If there really was a massive deal Toyota would have done something about it AND it would have been much more prevalent. The guy is 100% a second gen owner, too.

 

Well let’s see, Toyota made almost a quarter million 3.5’s for the Tacoma, not to mention all the other cars that use basically the same engine, so I’d say that it’s not really unexpected that there are a few failures out in the wild. Drive it until it breaks, then fix or replace.

 

That's the plan! Really neat area in your PFP, where was it taken?

 

Alfalfa ranch in eastern Oregon.

 

Oregon is beautiful. Hope to make it out there some day.

 

Wow a whole 7 cylinder heads on 2GR in 2023 at his dealer. Out of how many that came through the door that year. I bet that would be .01% of all the 2GR engines that came in that year. I'm at a mid sized dealer. And I think we have done maybe 15 in the last 3 years.

 

Yeah, let’s ALL hop on the bandwagon and trust his unverified data!

 

Now, where did I leave that pitchfork...

 

Maybe quarter million the last couple of years. Around 1.6 million 3.5L Tacomas total from 2016 to 2023.

 

Even if there were 10,000 failures, that would be a .6% failure rate. Crazy low.

 

I wouldn't go that far. Toyota isn't going to fix an issue unless they are forced too. They have showed us that with leaking timing covers and howling diffs for the last 10 years.

None of us know the data on any of these issues other than Toyota. It could be way more than everyone "assumes" or it could even be less.

People on here tend to assume it's less to make themselves feel better lol.