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Originally Posted by AllDayJonRay
How many miles did you have?
I've already paid for an extended warranty, and would like to explore FI options sometime before/after that period, so idk what benefit there would be in complaining for an extended warranty. And I don't want to return the car. That'd be a shame. I love the car, but I won't be dragged along if they can't repair it.
It's an oil leak... It shouldn't be something worth pursuing a lemon claim.
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Just 3k something miles when I first started smelling burning oil. I brought it in with just under 4k miles and they totally blew me off. Said it was a protective coating burning off. I told the service advisor that was B.S.
Brought it to a different dealer for my first oil change and by that time I had found on the forum to check the cam plate on the back of the head and there was oil there. I showed the leak to the second dealer and they fixed it.
A month or two later it was leaking again. I brought it in to the first dealer again and they fixed it and it was leaking shortly after again.
Then they said it was the valve cover gasket so they replaced that.
Got a few miles down the road and smoke was pouring out from under the hood. Brought it back and they said it was the cam cap.
Started leaking again and the shop foreman stated that the sealant they used never cured and had to reseal with the correct product.
A month or two after that I had another oil leak which they informed me was the timing chain cover so off that came to be resealed. Guess what? still leaking.
At this point I was done. I sent in the lemon law paperwork Toyota contacted me about a week after they received that and set a date for me to drop the car off so that their engineer could try to fix it.
They have had the car for over two weeks now and keep telling me " we had to order another part and another part...blah blah blah
They can refund me for the car I'm done with Toyota/Scion. If I wanted to drive a Corolla I would have bought one.