[v3rgil]

Hi guys,
Brendan here from South Africa, so i test drove a Toyota 86 on the Tuesday and really gunned it for about 36km, got back to the garage and bought it, received it on the Friday and got the dreaded cell, misfire, uneven idle and stall issue on Sunday when pulling in to the driveway after a long drive +- 300km, took it in to the dealer on Monday they reset the cell light as there was no sign of trouble accept for the p0019 error code they pulled, so i got the car back, the next day same story, misfire and uneven revs, so i noticed that this only happens when the engine is at normal running temp, went back to dealer, apparently my 86 was one of six in the country with the problem, i insisted on a replacement car as i believed i bought a lemon, that triggered Toyota customer care to jump in,
at the end of the day the problem was with the right bottom VVTI cam gear, there is a type of snail spring inside the gear that controls the advance and retard of the cam according to the oil pressure, and because of me hitting the red-line before the engine was at temp, it caused the spring to lodge in an advanced position hence the problem only there at temp and not start-up. so easy fix, they drained the oil removed the oilpan cover exposing the VVTI gears removed the cover from the faulty gear exposing the spring and clened that out there was a small scrach on the cover where the spring got cauhgt, used 1200 sand paper to rectify, put every thing back and vola 2300km down the road and still no problems