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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Depends on the Toyota. Was it a Tacoma?


59 posted on 12/04/2020 3:48:34 PM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Seruzawa

No, it was their mid 90s Sienna mini-van. Started off good, but after a couple of years, the engine sludged up terribly and blew HUGE clouds of blue smoke when you started it. It wasn’t so bad after it got running and warmed up.

Lots of owners had the same problem and Toyota never owned up to an endemic problem.

We sold it privately and the buyers came back a few weeks later and claimed we had changed the transmission out for unknown reasons. The VIN numbers apparently didn’t match. We had never had it in the shop for any transmission problems, so that was very weird. We never did figure that out and the buyers dropped it. The funny thing is they never came back to us to the big cloud of blue smoke upon starting.

So FOUR European POSes and ONE Japanese POS. We switched to Ford after that (mid 90s Explorer, our first SUV) and had great luck with Ford until our kids’ Escapes turned into MAJOR POSes around 2013.

Our older daughter gave up on all those brands and bought a new Subaru in early 2020 and loves it so far. The other two kids are still driving their Escapes. The 2017 Escape quit running one day on the freeway and had a blown transmission at about 60k. At least that was covered under warranty. The 2013 Escape had a varnished automatic transmission valve body and stopped shifting properly. They were going to charge my daughter $1,700 to fix it so I got on the phone and got it down to $700 which I thought was still outrageous because I know she didn’t abuse it or tow anything.


77 posted on 12/04/2020 5:18:57 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom ("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
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