Toyota to replace all motors in '22-'23 Tundras

[2muchcoffeeman]

One hundred and two thousand of them.

Not fix them. Not rebuild them. Replace them.

All of them.

Apparently there was machining debris left in some of the engine blocks.

102,000 Toyota Tundras and Lexus LXs Recalled for Potential Engine Failure

Remember when Toyota meant "high quality?"



Oh, what a feeling.

 

[three_bags_full]

Yikes

 

[goalmouth]

There was an excellent recent piece about how microvoltages in Toyota software rendered cars uncontrollable resulting in several deaths.

 

[Driftwood]

My cousin has a '24 Tundra, and he's plenty happy with it. Hopefully this is contained to those years. I think his Tundra was built in Texas.
My '24 Tacoma was built in Mexico. No issues at all.

 

[Hermes]

Staggering that a machining issue like this could go on for two years. I never worked in machining in the Honda engine plant I worked in, but I did install the bearings and the crankshaft on the line and this is nightmarish.

We had an airbag recall at the time and Honda kept a count of how many of the cars had been fixed on every screen in the facility and what it cost. I cannot imagine what this will cost. Cannot imagine.

 

[micropolitan guy]

Remember when Toyota meant "high quality?"

Well living up to the quality of the 1970s Pinto is a very tall task.

 

[goalmouth]

Staggering that a machining issue like this could go on for two years. I never worked in machining in the Honda engine plant I worked in, but I did install the bearings and the crankshaft on the line and this is nightmarish.

We had an airbag recall at the time and Honda kept a count of how many of the cars had been fixed on every screen in the facility and what it cost. I cannot imagine what this will cost. Cannot imagine.

Not nearly as much as it cost VW to take back all those cars in the rigged emissions scandal.

 

[goalmouth]

Hard to keep up with all the sub-standard manufacturing these days: Toyota, Boeing, etc. Some Midwest states recently ordered new passenger cars and locomotives frm Siemens of Germany. The cars arrived with lead-contaminated drinking water pipes and were years-delayed getting into service. The Charger locos fail regularly in harsh winter conditions in their several years' service. Notable that the last American-based maker of passenger cars, Pullman-Standard, exited the business in 1981. The tubular non-sleeper Amtrak cars that are still running were produced almost 50 years ago by the now-defunct Budd Co.

 

[Twirling Time]

Remember when Toyota meant "high quality?"

Well living up to the quality of the 1970s Pinto is a very tall task.

 

[dixiehack]

Notable that the last American-based maker of passenger cars, Pullman-Standard, exited the business in 1981.

Made in Bessemer, Ala., a straight shot down the road from the US Steel plants at Fairfield and Ensley. When it was sold off in 81 and the workforce slashed to a fraction, Bessemer went into a tailspin it has yet to recover from. The 80s in general were a rough damn ride for greater Birmingham, which had a rust belt economy in the middle of the Deep South.

 

[goalmouth]

Interestingly, I've ridden Pullman streetcars in Newark, subway cars in NYC, double deck gallery cars in Chicago, commuter cars in New Jersey and assorted museum specimens. Many Pullman cars have been preserved. The company is also inextricably linked to the rise of organized labor and black rights in the U.S.

 

[maumann]

Made in Bessemer, Ala., a straight shot down the road from the US Steel plants at Fairfield and Ensley. When it was sold off in 81 and the workforce slashed to a fraction, Bessemer went into a tailspin it has yet to recover from. The 80s in general were a rough damn ride for greater Birmingham, which had a rust belt economy in the middle of the Deep South.

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Davey Allison buried not far from that plant, if I recall correctly. Hueytown was hurt badly by the loss of the steel industry and the eventual breakup of the Alabama Gang.