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Originally Posted by JesseG
I’m on the fence about replacing that gear in the EPS unit. I hear a noticeable clunk sound from the front of my car, I think towards the drivers side. And it’s been getting louder. My car is only a little over 30k miles.
My biggest hesitation is do I use the Toyota replacement part, or the Hyundai/Kia part? Wouldn’t other Toyota’s that use this part also have failure issues?
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The part fails on all the Toyota’s but there isn’t much talk about it unless you search on Russian car forums and use Google to translate. My car started making the sound after my first autox with it at around 70k miles. I assumed it was suspension for a long time and never could find a fix. To me it always sounded like it was coming from the passenger footwell. It wasn’t until my son one day said he felt like it was coming from the gauge cluster that I started focusing on the steering column.
It’s really hard to say which would last longer. Hyundai had a lot of issues with the coupler crumbling so they released a new part and a TSB for it. Who knows if the revised Hyundai part will last longer than the Toyota part though. I put the Hyundai part in mine at 99,100 miles and now I’m at 130k and it’s still good and I’ve done a handful of autoxes with it on the new part.