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Related to this was a recent experience with a national oil change chain. The shop manager refused to warrantee the oil change, unless I used a...
$1,000 to fix a 2005 with 77,000 miles that stalled due to "bad gas". This is about double what it should have cost, but I had the car towed to...
The part that I didn't expect was that Toyota didn't help at all. Mostly I've been lucky with dealers, and auto mechanics in general. But maybe...
We really are not in disagreement. And you are not too aggressive. This is really the first and only time I had any problem with auto...
No I could not have taken the car anywhere. I'm relatively new to town. The only independent repair shop for which I had good personal...
Sure I talked to the people at the station. And no, nobody else complained, they said.
That is my plan. I'm trying to find other complaints. It will make my case against the gasoline station a lot stronger.
Remember, this isn't just a problem with the dealer. Toyota approved everything. A simple "hey cut the guy a break on that gas disposal fee"...
If I had a problem with "bad gas" with a non-hybrid, I could have had the problem fixed almost anywhere, and at half the price or less. The...
Sure proper disposal. But $324? My car was not driveable, so they took me for all that they could. Any more, and I would have had the car...
I checked the pump, there was no diesel available for me to add to my tank there. I had been buying gas at this place on a regular basis.
Exactly. The story that I heard from Toyota is that many, if not all dealers have a 55 gallon barrel on site for waste disposal. The dealers...
I was on the phone with a "nice" call center person who told me, "hold on let me ask one of our hybrid specialists" if it dropping the tank was...
No, that was Toyota scewing me. I had extensive discussions with the people at the head office who assured me that the best solution would be to...
Toyota told me otherwise. They said that the recommended procedure was to take out the back seat, drop the tank and clean it out that way. The...
No, that is the full list of repairs. BTW, here are the codes that they say that they recovered: P0A0F P0171 P3190 P3191 B1200 B1207 B1271
Yes you can put gasoline in a diesel car, but I could not have stuck a diesel pump hose into my Prius. It isn't the repair bill that gets me, it...
No the car stalled and would not start. It had to be towed to the dealership. They knew that I'd have to pay their $140 diagnostic fee, and the...
Drop and drain the gas tank. Clean the injectors and throttle body. Dispose of the "bad gas" and fill with "good gas."
The pump was not labeled E85. But who knows.
