Cheers for the kind words JL! I also bought for all the same reasons - and this also was my first Toyota (unless a 1996 Daihatsu Feroza in School counts, but I don't think they owned them then). And yep - everything else about this car is spot on. Which makes it a hard decision.
You're right - everything on their tech stream was screen-captured as I drove and sent off to 'technical'. They did end up sending a 'tech' down to have a look. And lo and behold! They confirmed it wasn't right. No idea what it was (other than having AN idea of it's rough location) or how to fix it. They have it again next week. Will see after that. I have the change over price on a new car now, so all I can do is see how they go and if it's still rubbish, then it's off. Again, whatever they find I'll put on here and let peeps see the results - as I know I am not the only one. It's also useful to print these pages out and hand them to the mechanics (it is what I did) and it allows them to follow some stuff on here to the tee. Wardie - I took your post in and they did everything you suggested, with nil result. He took the front diff apart (he is showing me photo's of all the work he is doing) without result.
The current "it must be this..." theory is the tension in the springs and/or the gasket itself just forward of the DPF. Now, I struggle with most of this so for everyone's SA it's right in the centre of your car, just forward of the firewall connected, funnily enough, to that exhaust out the back. Just forward of that is a join with a funny gasket thin tensioned by two solid springs. Here's a couple of photo's of the current culprit. But that's not it. He tightened the tension in the springs. And last week replaced the gasket, spring and bolt assembly. No joy. Then added spacers to the new springs. Nup. Don't know what they intend to do next week, but we'll see!
As an aside, I had my sparky around today doing a whole heap of stuff. He's got a 79 Series, 6 months old. The issues he's had with it (alternator, DPF and Turbo) make my car sound brilliant! So I think I ended up paying $95+GST (yet to get his invoice) for an hours worth of back and forth bleating about Toyota customer care!
You're right - everything on their tech stream was screen-captured as I drove and sent off to 'technical'. They did end up sending a 'tech' down to have a look. And lo and behold! They confirmed it wasn't right. No idea what it was (other than having AN idea of it's rough location) or how to fix it. They have it again next week. Will see after that. I have the change over price on a new car now, so all I can do is see how they go and if it's still rubbish, then it's off. Again, whatever they find I'll put on here and let peeps see the results - as I know I am not the only one. It's also useful to print these pages out and hand them to the mechanics (it is what I did) and it allows them to follow some stuff on here to the tee. Wardie - I took your post in and they did everything you suggested, with nil result. He took the front diff apart (he is showing me photo's of all the work he is doing) without result.
The current "it must be this..." theory is the tension in the springs and/or the gasket itself just forward of the DPF. Now, I struggle with most of this so for everyone's SA it's right in the centre of your car, just forward of the firewall connected, funnily enough, to that exhaust out the back. Just forward of that is a join with a funny gasket thin tensioned by two solid springs. Here's a couple of photo's of the current culprit. But that's not it. He tightened the tension in the springs. And last week replaced the gasket, spring and bolt assembly. No joy. Then added spacers to the new springs. Nup. Don't know what they intend to do next week, but we'll see!
As an aside, I had my sparky around today doing a whole heap of stuff. He's got a 79 Series, 6 months old. The issues he's had with it (alternator, DPF and Turbo) make my car sound brilliant! So I think I ended up paying $95+GST (yet to get his invoice) for an hours worth of back and forth bleating about Toyota customer care!
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