This might not be a popular suggestion, but you could always reveal the dealership’s name on this comment board and elsewhere. Potential buyers would be able to read your experiences with this dealer and decide whether to buy from this dealer or not.

Get the business card of a lawyer, take it to the dealership and tell them you’ll be putting a retainer down instead of paying for the engine.

Ooh, that’s effed up. I would make it as big of a public issue as necessary. Enlist social media and start making some videos. Implicate the dealership, too.

Lemon Law?

the repairs were slated to take 12 hours per vehicle—clearly tearing the engine open and replacing valve springs is a hell of a job.

I am one of the affected scion owners. 15 miles after i left the dealership i had the same symptoms as everybody else. It’s been a month, toyota corporate is brushing their shoulder, and the dealership isn’t compensating besides free labor to install a new engine, engine/block on my expense. First time i am posting…

Nice. Plastic chain guides. No one has ever had trouble with that in an older engine.

So perhaps this is just a matter of technicians using too much sealant, and it clogging oil passages? That seems like a fairly simple issue.

This explanation seems likely. My experience with Toyota drivelines suggest that Toyota techs are probably used to the liberal application of RTV.

Man, supra owners are going to have a GREAT time with toyota techs working on their BMW engines....

Worst. Recall. Fix. Ever.

I recently came across an owner who said their out of warranty car died after this recall fix was accomplished and the dealership was going to stick them with the repair bill.  What a disaster.

Not enough props and fart noises for you?

It’s almost like none of the economic gains of the last several decades have gone to working class people. That can’t be right, though.

So you had to live barebones simply to buy a low $20k car, but you don’t think that’s indicative of a greater problem in this country?

Nearly 7% of people borrowing money for cars can’t pay it, and you’re blaming it on individuals instead of a systemic problem?

For the record, that’s only people 90 days past due. There are millions more that are 60 days past due, or have missed at least one payment.

Not that I think what the guy did was right or funny, but what the hell bike were you riding that made you scrub that much speed that quickly?

My Jeeps are art. They increase property values. Proven fact.

To Whom It May Concern:

HOA...Hopelessly Obtrusive and Asinine!