Involving the new turbo v6 engine for the Tundra, and the most prestigious vehicle they make, the LX 600?
They are claiming manufacturer debris got into the engines which is causing main bearing 1 failure. This is happening from engines made at the plant in Alabama, AND at the plant around the world in Japan.
Most speculate the procedure for making the engine wasn’t exactly correct since it was happening at both plants.
The ONLY, ONLY sure fire way to make sure the engine doesn’t fail from this debris is an engine swap in every car they deemed has a bad batch engine according to serial number. Will they, can they?
Because most of the affected cars are still going strong…that doesn’t mean they won’t fail next week or 5 years from now. And the only way to know what is failing inside is to tear the engine apart and even then it’s almost impossible to say which specific part failed due to debris.
Just curious what the largest car manufacturer by volume in the world is going to do…
Any quality control engineers/bean counters for major corps on here with an opinion?
They are claiming manufacturer debris got into the engines which is causing main bearing 1 failure. This is happening from engines made at the plant in Alabama, AND at the plant around the world in Japan.
Most speculate the procedure for making the engine wasn’t exactly correct since it was happening at both plants.
The ONLY, ONLY sure fire way to make sure the engine doesn’t fail from this debris is an engine swap in every car they deemed has a bad batch engine according to serial number. Will they, can they?
Because most of the affected cars are still going strong…that doesn’t mean they won’t fail next week or 5 years from now. And the only way to know what is failing inside is to tear the engine apart and even then it’s almost impossible to say which specific part failed due to debris.
Just curious what the largest car manufacturer by volume in the world is going to do…
Any quality control engineers/bean counters for major corps on here with an opinion?
