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Originally Posted by Jar
This was what caused me to trade in my FRS after 11 months. I started getting a machine-gun "popping" noise over 5k RPMs under acceleration pretty regularly, and I couldn't help but think it was "some new shit breaking". It wasn't incredibly loud from within the cabin, but it was loud enough to get noticed by passengers.
After reading the DI issue I got paranoid and just traded it in before I had Scion fight me again on yet-another-thing that broke on my new car.
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We buy a Toyota sports car for one reason: Long Term Reliability. I don't mean the silly stuff like crickets, low on power, condensation in the tail lights, hard shifting into 2nd, that's fly shit . But detonation, blowing DI-orings and ultimately the losing the shortblock is serious stuff and word gets out.
You are the perfect example of how a new platform dies a quick death in the auto industry, resale will start to drop like a rock and new sales will follow.