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After extensive time with the mechanic they stated this is either a valve or piston ring issue on cylinder 3. He said he would have to take the...
We are on mechanic number 3. The 2nd one kept the car for over two weeks and nada. We are picking up the car from this mechanic and taking it to...
Not sure how to edit. No oil light came on
No coolant is being consumed. I'll check the throttle body this weekend. If it is indeed the valve stem seals that's out of my comfort zone and a...
Nutz the top half was dry and this only seemed to affect the electrode area of the plug. Would that point more to the valve stem seals?
I pulled the plug and it looks nasty! I looked at the other plugs and they looked normal. Now the oil had maybe 3 quarts in there. Did a drain and...
Just checked the oil and bone dry at 5k miles. We used bulk 0w20 this time. I added a quart of 0w20 I had laying around and that didn't even put a...
And we got almost 5000 miles this time. P0303 is back...Going to pull the plug tonight and look to see if it's fouled. UGHHHHH
Scratch the hi temp thread locker idea. I'm back to the drawing board and will be fixing this weekend.
It's been a little over 2 weeks of very heavy driving (over 1k miles) and still good. I'll call this issue fixed! It's driving better than it ever...
So far so good! Wife even said it hasn't driven this good since we've had the car. Fingers crossed from here on out!
Misfire came back. I ordered a set of 4 denso reman injectors from eBay w lifetime warranty. Mechanic had the gall to charge for labor after...
Looks like I was right all along. The mechanic moved the injector from cylinder 3 to cylinder 1 and the misfire moved over to cylinder 1. They...
The issue is much worse now. Car is back at the mechanic and they are going to try and get compression tests run today. Hoping this is something...
The mechanic said this was the intake manifold and it needed to be updated to the new one since toyota had a tsb. Did that and no luck. Still...
