Buyer Beware: KTJO 4X4 Driver's Side Grab Handles w/ A Pillars, HUD, and Bowl Lights

Is it being shipped to the dealer or to your address? Who gets the shipping notice and tracking number? I think the handles are in stock at the Oregon warehouse so you should have something by now. 2 weeks? Hound the dealer, they ordered it. Plus, they “feel bad” about it.

 

I'd just roll with it then. And when it comes in, just sell and pocket the money for your pain and suffering. I've now had my 3rd gen for 5 1/2 years and I'm doing ok without one. Thought I was really going to want it, until it arrived all jacked up and I just gave up on the whole thing and went through the extreme pain of a return to ktjo.

 

By any chance, does anyone have the OEM trim that I can use for the brake light recall? I chucked mine in the can.

 

LoL! I don't think you're close. I'm saving mine for the time that the handle comes off in my hand.

 

Good thinking!

I need black please... Also, FYI, MESO sunroof panel needs to come down too...

 

Oh man. Good luck!

 

Added a note for you in the 1st Post.

 

The likely reason is that the service tech thought that that he wanted the grab handle more than you did. He thought you'd never even miss it.

 

Ouch.

 

It could be a loaner piece that I'd send back, or I could send it out to some other poor schmuck to be used again...

 

I'm sure that someone has one for you for either purpose.

 

If the dealership would have pulled a swap on me like that I'd have been really tempted to file a police report for theft. But I'm petty azfuq against dealerships for the way they've tried to screw me over in the past.

Caught a dealership "changing my oil" without changing the filter. Same dealer argued with me for 3 days about a bad battery in my brand new 2013 tacoma that I bought from them 2 months prior. And a whole list of issues with them when trying to get warranty work done. I've always won, but it takes effort. So if I can make their lives miserable, I'm make the same effort to do so.

 

I may need the bolts too.

 

"Ace is the place with the helpful hardware folks"

 

That’s a plausible reason but I still think that trying to replace the grab handle was more work than Toyota would cover.

 

Got my money back! Only took a few months. Anybody know where I can get the pillar handle bolt covers? Maybe 3D printed?

 

Yeah, BOIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Love those charge back claims against her. They sting.

 

Heard that man. I've had some battles won and others lost with dealers in the past.

So with this place, they were out of loaner cars. I was sent to enterprise on their dime and chose a nissan Armada as it was the highest per day rental I saw on the lot. Small victory but w=w.

 

Nice move!