2020 3.5 V6 engine failure

For $27k you could probably do a complete Hilux diesel swap… that’s insane!?!

 

That's just about what it costs

https://www.dieseltoys.com/2016-2023-tacoma

 

use these guys. You don’t even want to know the crappy work local Phx Toyota dealers crank out. Buy a used engine and have them install it. I’d bet best Toyota does is cover some small% of the cost and you’ll still pay 15k or more for them to half ass fix it.

 

You can use the icon that looks like chain, put link there. Its next to A A a letters to the right.

As far as for your engine, i think the 27K is insane, that's like price of used truck as whole. Sorry this happened to you, probably wait and see what corporate says, maybe there is some kind of warranty that can cover it, I am sure Toyota will want to dig deeper because it is dealership maintained engine and they will want to know what caused the issue.

Also, yes the 16-17-18 models had issues, 16 had most issue from what I know. The 20-21-22-23 is better because there were changes made I believe to the engine just as the whole truck, so I would probably try to go either with OEM if its covered or 20+ engine.