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Old 09-02-2020, 11:33 PM   #134
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Originally Posted by DarkSunrise View Post
If cars falling off hoists, being crashed, bursting into flames from people pouring gas on them, and being crushed by random elephants were all reasonably foreseeable risks to having an engine taken apart for a valve spring replacement, then you’d have a point. And you’d have seen Toyota/Subaru issue a memo warning dealerships how to avoid rampaging elephants when doing the valve spring recall. But that’s not the case.

The risk of sealant being improperly applied when resealing an engine is a much more foreseeable risk. And that risk in fact materialized numerous times during the recall campaign, leading to engine failures.. Why else do you think Toyota/Subaru would have subsequently issued the warning memo on the sealing process?



Yep I agree. The majority were taken care of one way or another. It’s the ones that fell through the cracks that Subaru/Toyota should address.

By now, I’ve said what I think needed to be said on behalf of the affected owners. If you or others can’t understand that Toyota/Subaru were in the best position to help those owners (from a recall process designed by Toyota/Subaru, carried out by dealers authorized to wear their branding, paid for directly by Subaru/Toyota for a part that Subaru/Toyota admittedly incorrectly designed), then I don’t think I can say anything further.

I laughed at the rampaging elephants [emoji23]
What about meteor strikes?! Or an alien abducts your car and performs “experiments” on it. Who would cover that?!! [emoji16]
I guess you could ask them to get rid of the torque dip


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