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Thats an impressive size crack... Dang.

 

Whomever pays for the repairs owns the old parts. Insurance and warranty places usually have no use for them and just ask the shop to "dispose" of them.

When I wrecked my fairly rare motorcycle, within a week identical parts damaged in the same way appeared on eBay, shipping for the same city as the shop that did the repairs. I suspect someone at the shop was "disposing" of them for personal gain.

 

Hell yeah! Thanks. Gonna call them to dig into what the deal is then.

 

Yeah I would’ve thought it would’ve been louder seeing the crack, but just sounded like a rock hitting the windshield sort of?? Funny how that stuff goes..

 

Makes sense. After all the shenanigans it might be cool to do something with it but no biggie either way

 

OOF, looks like a defect to me, no way you did that to it all by your lonesome. Well they should definitely be putting a new block in at least.

 

Yeah I don’t get that wild. that’s what the extended guy said too.

 

Are you still talking to Toyota corporate at all? Pretty sure they'll want to work out how the hell that happened as that's a massive crack.

 

Looks like they already pulled the engine to do that work.

I wouldn't discount a salvage engine too quickly. A complete salvage may be cheaper, easier, even better all around at this point. Aside for the extra labor to assemble a short block (not your cost so oh well), a complete salvage engine is likely to still be "factory sealed". It may come down to a used factory sealed with unknown maintenance history, or new (refurb?) short block with reassembly by the dealer - which seems or feels better to you?

Edit: If the salvage comes with the source VIN, the dealer can check it's warranty history up to 60k miles.

 

X2 I'd rather have a low mileage used motor assembled at the factory, over a rebuilt motor assembled by the dealer.

 

No. They only care up to 60k miles, and basically said it must not be a big deal.. If it was there’s an established process in the case of a “big deals” where dealership would contact the right people at Toyota but they haven’t done so.

 

good points! Thanks

 

BTW, the cylinder that cracked, that piston is clean because it was been passing water for a fair amount of time. Hard to tell, the back cylinder looking like it has some water cleaning too, though not as much. You been losing coolant at all?

 

Nothing noticeable. Haven’t had to add any and was between min/max 500 miles before the failure when I did the last check up/oil & filter change.

I figured it was just right then.

Wow.. I see what you mean, back cylinder looks pretty clean with that chalky look too

 

That's the first thing I thought too. It really wouldn't take much coolant, a couple of drops here and there, to clean up that piston like that. Think steam cleaner.

 

After these types of repairs, vehicles are rarely ever the same. All kinds of issue will emerge. When you get it fix, sell it.

 

If you’re thinking of going with something new the new Nissan Frontier is nice. I just had a ProX as a rental for a week and really liked it. I think it’s a better truck than the Tacoma.

 

Sub’d. Good luck!

 

Sounds like you PERSONALLY had a bad experience but your statement simply isn’t true.

 

I regularly perform much more invasive repairs than this at work and when they are done nobody is the wiser that is was as far apart as it was. Its all about the person doing the repair. I see people all the time saying "Oh it had a failure at lower miles, you need to sell is as soon as its fixed". And what? Go buy a vehicle in the overpriced market we are in? And what's stopping that vehicle you replaced it with from having a major failure early on? Its a mass produced vehicle. You are bound to have ones that fail. Let them fix it and drive it. The devil you don't know is always worse than the one you do.