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What manual did they update for the 2026 model year?
RECALL 25LA07 (25LB07 Interim Notice) - Engine Recall - UPDATED: DEC 18, 2025
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They suggest a higher viscosity weight oil for high speed or high load driving. Its posted somewhere on here. Someone said its for a 26 model.
I think they damaged my bearings and should do a voluntary recall up to when they put that excerpt into the manual. Have the service advisors educated as well.
If Toyota is doing this to get around emissions or mpg regs they should be held accountable like VW and Cummins was. People get around the programming with throttle modulation (annoying though) and if engines are failing using 40 weight oil is what everyone is going to do. They cant manipulate the programming and real world scenarios.
I think they damaged my bearings and should do a voluntary recall up to when they put that excerpt into the manual. Have the service advisors educated as well.
If Toyota is doing this to get around emissions or mpg regs they should be held accountable like VW and Cummins was. People get around the programming with throttle modulation (annoying though) and if engines are failing using 40 weight oil is what everyone is going to do. They cant manipulate the programming and real world scenarios.
Ok maybe its in all of them not just the 26 then…
we should each be refunded about $30K for this mess on the engine imho. eff the recall at this point. we should be able to buy our own engine fully crated. no short block bs.
I know it will never happen, that would be fantastic. Id take the 30 grand wait till they figure out what’s really the problem and then upgrade to the over trail with a non-replaced engine.
Does anyone know the validity of the pictures in the attached thread?
That aligns with what Toyota has been saying.
Yeah that what I was thinking. Barely been putting miles on mine and haven't put PPF on yet, incase I need to trade up to a new model..
Also thought they were going to readdress the recall on Jan 6, 2026?
What do you mean?
If this is true then wow this is the best news ever. This is comically bad workmanship that can be fixed and not some super scary “design problem”.
The crazy thing is how the V35A has eaten bearings since the low volume Japanese made 2017 LS500, and in 2026 we still have no definitive statement from Toyota that this problem is solved.
I thought they were going to update the recall on jan 6 and make some announcements. Could be very wrong
I also remember reading people saying that on Jan 6 Toyota would issue another recall to include another batch of engines manufactured during a certain period after the current recall end period. Like many of the comments here, pure speculation.
It's all in the defect information report.
In this case, just that all affected owners should have received a letter by now.
Ask Ryan, he is on Facebook. Toyota sent a cease and desist to Tundras.com and got him banned from the site for posting pictures of the engine diagram. He bought this shory block new to see what was going on. Unfortunately Tundras.com modstapos deleted all the info.
How are they “modstapos” if Toyota sent a C&D and asked them to delete that info?
(I use “ask” lightly…)
Do you think they instead should have defied a multibillion dollar international corporation’s legal team?
For sure, you don't want to defy a legal dept like that.. a lot of members were just annoyed that in addition to deleting the offending diagram and internal info, they nuked everything he had contributed over the few years he had been bringing awareness to the engine failures. Probably lost 5 or 6 threads with hundreds of pages of info. Pictures of the engine internals as shown above, itemized short block replacement costs, his spreadsheet tracking the engine failures, etc. But I understand why the mods did that.
I wish I had some of it saved, there was lots of interesting stuff. This was back before the recalls and as the failures started happening people didn't want to or chose not to believe it. Lots of those threads had hundreds of posts just arguing and nothing of interest was lost though. People got so heated. I do remember seeing some interesting stuff like posts from the Middle East with blown engines, and LS500s with bearing issues years before the Tundra started using the engine.
Isn't there a site that take snapshots of other site or is that only on reddit