D'oh! HG dead - have to sell
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well at least you still have the truck!
Having the injectors serviced by RC Engineering isn't enough? Replacing injectors sounds expensive.
EDIT: Should have read the whole thread.
I will say, if you own an 80, you probably do have a HG repair in your future sometime.
I will say, if you own an 80, you probably do have a HG repair in your future sometime.
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Cruiser back from the mechanic with new injectors and engine/tranny mounts. A third of my tax return is gone but the rig now runs great. Hopefully for a long time.
Happy ending (for now). Thanks all for the kind words and advice.
Happy ending (for now). Thanks all for the kind words and advice.
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And just another evidence of something fishy from that stealership: I drove 1,500+ miles in the last two weeks, including more that 500 miles of freeways @ 75 MPH. Still no sign of coolant loss whatsoever.
Glad it worked out. Clean injectors is a good PM thing to do between 125K miles and 200K. Nothing real about those mile points, just trying to bound my opinion. You can take them out and have them cleaned for a reasonable price and then put them back in.
And just another evidence of something fishy from that stealership: I drove 1,500+ miles in the last two weeks, including more that 500 miles of freeways @ 75 MPH. Still no sign of coolant loss whatsoever.
Maybe I missed it Grolar but you still have not named the nefarious stealership that set you on your initial course to sell this rig due to the engine problems. While I admire your resistance to rat out on this "Mr. T Representative", truth be told, he ain't representin' Mr. T by this behavior. You could be without your rig right now and some other super lucky sap would be driving it daily thinking to himself "Why did that moron sell this thing!?!". Or even worse you could have conceivably put out all that cash to repair the rig there when it wasn't ever even broken! Either which way, ratting out on something aside, look at what several wise posters posted here about how a fellow mudder would help another fellow mudder in such a situation, well, without burdening with blame, you are now in the terrific position of being able to return the favor; as a community along with our offers to help wrench or to loan tools to help wrench or to give good "Real Time Help" in the form of our forum's posts we can all also endorse or reject various vendors. Trust me that I would put as much effort into telling you how awesome Slee Offroad and American Toyota are as I would how terrible "Vendor X" is ... it is just one of many ways we help one another out. JMHO, and I absolutely understand if ultimately you would rather not.
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Maybe I missed it Grolar but you still have not named the nefarious stealership that set you on your initial course to sell this rig due to the engine problems. While I admire your resistance to rat out on this "Mr. T Representative", truth be told, he ain't representin' Mr. T by this behavior. You could be without your rig right now and some other super lucky sap would be driving it daily thinking to himself "Why did that moron sell this thing!?!". Or even worse you could have conceivably put out all that cash to repair the rig there when it wasn't ever even broken! Either which way, ratting out on something aside, look at what several wise posters posted here about how a fellow mudder would help another fellow mudder in such a situation, well, without burdening with blame, you are now in the terrific position of being able to return the favor; as a community along with our offers to help wrench or to loan tools to help wrench or to give good "Real Time Help" in the form of our forum's posts we can all also endorse or reject various vendors. Trust me that I would put as much effort into telling you how awesome Slee Offroad and American Toyota are as I would how terrible "Vendor X" is ... it is just one of many ways we help one another out. JMHO, and I absolutely understand if ultimately you would rather not.
Yup. That's a terrific catalog of good reasons to spill the beans. Let's say it's the closest Toyota dealership from my location.
Yup. That's a terrific catalog of good reasons to spill the beans. Let's say it's the closest Toyota dealership from my location.
Toyota of Hollywood?
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You would think that the dealership which sells Priuses to movie stars would know how to fix a '94 Cruiser, wouldn't you? Oh, whatever...
I bought my Matrix back in '05 from them and their service had been outstanding. When my neighborhood mechanic told me that he couldn't fix the rig without a costly scanner he didn't have, I naturally headed to the same location. Lesson well learnt.
I bought my Matrix back in '05 from them and their service had been outstanding. When my neighborhood mechanic told me that he couldn't fix the rig without a costly scanner he didn't have, I naturally headed to the same location. Lesson well learnt.
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e, I've been experiencing a love/hate relationship with my 80 for the past two years. Love when it works, hate when it lights a CEL or stalls in the middle of nowhere. But negative or positive, that's a strong bond! 
I hope I've reached the end of the baselining process and will be able to start over on solid ground. I was really relieved that the coolant level didn't budge at all after more than 1,500 miles of freeways and mountain roads and that I'm now able to call Toyota's assessment BS.
I hope I've reached the end of the baselining process and will be able to start over on solid ground. I was really relieved that the coolant level didn't budge at all after more than 1,500 miles of freeways and mountain roads and that I'm now able to call Toyota's assessment BS.
If it's the Toyota dealership of Hollywood (First Toyota dealership in America) I would write The Toyota Corporate office with your gripe and inform them of how you were treated, by none other than the dealership that put Toyota in the map in this country. I'm sure that they will respond accordingly.
so you wrote them an e-mail... this is why people get walked on! sack up, go in there and give them s*** in person. If i have a problem i don't write an e-mail i go in yell at them why not they deserve it the way they treated you i would never put up with that kind of crap but then again im a mass-hole
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Yep... and you're a fluent English speaker which I'm not. I think that by losing my business (and by enticing my colleagues, two of them who drive Toyotas, to have their service done somewhere else), they get the punishment they deserve.
