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Originally Posted by OkieSnuffBox
A dealer is not going to do that, point blank.
Now, you could probably find an indy shop to do it. Just know any powertrain claim is going to be immediately denied once they see you've done something like that.
As I said earlier in this thread, so far we are talking about less than 10 known incidents in thousands of cars sold.
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Hmm. Are problems caused by blocking the strainer somewhat, or just indeed the shear amount of grey material potentially finding its way around the engine not also a factor if your are putting the car through its paces on a mountain road for 5 mins? These car are low power and therefore you can use a lot of high RPM in a number of gears without breaking the speed limit. You know the kind of things we love about these cars.
And do all the potential issues related to the large amounts of sealant deposits necessarily mean that the cars are not still coping minor damage to various things, or suffering from minor aeration and so forth? I know oil starvation itself takes very very little time to do major damage, but its possible that minor starvation events are occurring still right?
Just the shear lack of inspection by Toyota is alarming, and honestly is setting off alarm bells about this issue - its a very new car that they in theory you would want to investigate deeply so as head off potential recalls early on and have fixes for. It makes you wonder if they absolutely know about it, and absolutely don't want to officially have to inspect it.