WTF toyota?

Pete Wrote:
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> VW, on the other hand, will cut the engine down to
> idle if you apply the brake or the handbrake.
> They won't even let the wipers move if it thinks
> the hood is open.
>

---- I wonder how many Lowered VWs have found their way to the dealer's doorstep with inoperative wipers cuz young and dumb thought that he was taking out unneeded weight in that pesky wiring going to the hood switch that is now missing complete with the bracket it would hang on!

I've sure got to deal with enough PITA VAG (Volkswagen Audi Group) problems cuz those Germans were so busy being clever that they designed disaster into every one of their products!!

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JohnLane

Overkill is consistently more fun

Heard today they're expanding the 2000-2003 Tundra recall for frames that rot out and send spare tires crashing onto the pavement. That would explain truckloads of small truck frames I see on the road from time to time!

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Andrew Steere
Lyndeborough, NH
KB1PJY

fiasco Wrote:
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> Heard today they're expanding the 2000-2003 Tundra
> recall for frames that rot out and send spare
> tires crashing onto the pavement. That would
> explain truckloads of small truck frames I see on
> the road from time to time!
>

I have not seen a rusted Tundra here on the Left Coast.

Three seasons is plenty; thanks!

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JohnLane

Overkill is consistently more fun

Chris Lanctot may post up here, but his Tacoma's frame was replaced under recall/warranty, and it didn't look like it "rusted" so much as it wasn't really welded together.

I do find it odd that if there are rust problems, I'm not seeing a significant number of rusted Toyotas.

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Pete Remner
Cleveland, Ohio

1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing)
1978
Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.

How to fix the Prius probem...




Youtube Link

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Jorden R. Kleier
Baraboo, Wisconsin, USA
1990 Mazdog Protege 4WD
1973

Sent that link to my step-daughter, she has a 2009 model. My BIL has one also, and the bothe get smug about the milage, I told tell great I need that gas they save for my E 250 with 351 4v.

Brian

Reading some stuff on an engineering forum. Apparently a Major Automotive Magazine tested a new V6 Camry braking distance with the throttle pinned to the floor.

60-0 took only 16 feet longer than with no throttle. More interestingly, it was a foot SHORTER than a new Taurus at no throttle.

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Pete Remner
Cleveland, Ohio

1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing)
1978
Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.

win

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