J02 valve spring recall, Toyota will not work on car
 

I got my registration renewal notice in the mail and it said I have to do the #J02 (valve spring) recall before I can renew my registration. I took my car to Toyota (after explaining very clearly to them that I have an aftermarket turbo setup), and now they are saying they can't do the recall. They said they had an inspector come out and determine it is too much liability for them to perform the work. They want me to return the car to stock before they will do the recall.


I have a Works stage 2 kit. It would be very time consuming and cost a bunch of money to return the car to stock. I'm absolutely not doing it. I contacted the ARB on the registration notice, but they can only help with payment issues with the dealership.



Has anybody ran across this issue, and if so what did you do? Am I going to be forced to return my car to stock, have them do work, then put it all back on just to pull the stupid engine? I don't give a shit about the recall, I would just take my chances if that wan an option. :mad0259:

Just get a stock header and intake drive over the car with a CEL.

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Not sure if you are familiar with the Works kit but there is more to it than that. I'd have to take off the top mount intercooler and all the intake plumbing coming from the filter housing, as well as the coolant plumbing coming from the front mount heat exhanger, reroute the coolant and oil plumbing going through the turbo, remove the turbo, remove the up and down pipes to reinstall the over pipe, ...theres probably more since its been a few years since I did the install. It's not just a simple turbo kit that reroutes the exhaust to slap in a turbo. It doesn't install on the header, you can actually use the stock header. The up pipe comes off the header up to the turbo, then down pipe bolts up to the mid pipe.



The kit is awesome and makes quite a bit of power, but it wasn't an easy install.

I totally mixed it up with the AVO kit haha.

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Hey hey,
If you installed the kit yourself and are mechanically inclined, give us a call at the shop and we can walk you through the easiest method we have found for this. It leaves the oil lines and water lines in place and isn't difficult at all. We do it in about 3-4 hours each way.

Thanks guys! I am mechanically inclined enough to install the kit myself, and work on helicopters for a living:iono:. I'll give you guys a call tomorrow. What about the exhaust? I don't have any of the stock parts.

Call some other dealers.

This is the game we play, unfortunately. Best of luck getting the kit uninstalled, sounds like a real pain; at least it's a one and done deal.

I was in the same situation with my Edelbrock supercharger. Dealer would not perform the recall unless the engine was returned to stock. After waiting almost a year and seeing if there were any work-arounds, I ended up getting the supercharger uninstalled and returning the car to stock. Got recall done, sold the supercharger. If anything goes wrong with the recall work and you re-install the turbo, they're going to blame the turbo unless you return it to stock again for them to see what the issue is. I didn't want to deal with that.

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That is the way things are in our “its not my fault” world we live in. There is to much liability on that shop to work on it. Not to mention it is going to add additional man hours to that job that Toyota is not going to pay. If they did work on your car it would probably put their profit down to $0 and triple their liability. Not smart business decision. If you cant not do the work there are a lot of performance shops out there now that can.

Don't do the recall, the mechanics are not trained to work on Suburu FRS engine, they caused me 7000 in damaged Rod

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The dealer should be able to have you sign a waiver to opt out of the recall.

It is classed as a safety recall. They can not have you "opt out". You of course can just ignore it (unless you are in California) but there is now way they can officially support that.