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Originally Posted by Marrk
I'm beginning to doubt my own earlier argument that Toyota was doing a reasonable job in responding to this problem.
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Speaking to a previous post of yours, I think part of this is a supply chain problem. I have an hunch that you understand what I mean when I say this but I'm going to explain for those reading who may not...
I'm personally assuming two things
Number 1. It's pretty likely they understand the root cause and have the fix in place, moving going forward for every new engine currently being produced.
A huge problem for them are all of the engines produced before they fixed the issue;
> There's a lead time needed to make enough engines to get a production run started. They may have made 10,000's of these engines with the defect
> They produce cars with these engines
> The first few runs of completed cars gets shipped to North America
> Customers buy them and they break
<----- This is the critical point...
...because now they have to work backwards: rework the cars already in customer hands, the cars sitting in dealer lots, the cars in the shipment process, the cars being produced on the assembly line, and the engines sitting in the crates waiting for the production line.
Number 2. The possibility exists (and remember, this depends entirely on what the engineering defect is and how it's resolved) that those of us who bought early will be stuck with the legacy of these defects for as long as we own these cars. The engines in the 2013 cars will work differently than they do in the 2014 cars.