Late model Toyota Avalon, Camry, & Rav4 owners have been suffering leaking or ruptured oil lines on the 2GR-FE engine that often lead to severe engine damage. The problem has become an epidemic and finally Toyota did a partial recall. Click this link regarding the Toyota V6 Oil Line Scandal let let’s hear what others have experienced.
http://sit…nescandal/
There is one 06 Rav4 and one 07 Camry that had this problem on threads in cartalk.
Post a link here to the official recall statement from Toyota. Otherwise some unfortunate luck for some 3.5L owners and a vocal person posting a site.
Toyota USA is trying to keep it “under the radar” by calling it a limited service campain so there was no press release and it is not on their website, however, the 26 page document they released to USA dealers can be downloaded at:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/0p4z5a.
They only sent recall letters to owners of about 10% of affected vehicles. On the other hand, Toyota Canada recalled 100% of affected vehicles and a copy of the recall letter sent to Canadian vehicle owners can be viewed at:
Good luck with your quest.
Just only proves again Toyota and Honda are not the infalliable cars that people blindly recommend solely on “reliability”.
I feel bad for people who buy these cars based on that premise of supposed reliability primarily. They make decent cars at least.
That’s for sure. Honda Accoord 2008 & 2009 are the number 1 and 3 car on carcomplaints.com with its brake problems.
You’ll find throughout history…the car with the MOST complaints is usually one of the TOP selling cars…MORE CARS SOLD = MORE COMPLAINTS.
You have to break it down by # of complaints vs # of NON-Complaints. This ratio tells a better picture.
The internet should be taken with a grain of salt. People only complain and rarely complement on the majority of cars despite brand that make it 100k-150k without a lick of major or minor trouble.
Just only proves again Toyota and Honda are not the infalliable cars that people blindly recommend solely on “reliability”.
I agree with this.HOWEVER…There isn’t a car on the planet that doesn’t have a problem…What I’ve found with Honda and Toyota (and most people who own them)…is they have far far far fewer problems then MOST of the other manufacturers.