Toyota Pickup Truck Recall
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boostingbuick
Going to be buried in this.
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Sucks for all the people who bought them. Well, no, now they can buy a US product.
BlackMetal
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Hell yeah American cars have zero problems!
QuickBuick87
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At least the freakin frames don't rot out in a few years!! Must be all that cheap steel they're buying from China.......
Ken B.
Yep. Our dealership has bought back 2 of these. We put them on the rack and take a ball peen hammer to the inside of the frame and smack it near the spring mounts. One of them exploded into a powder ball when hit. I cannot believe how much they are giving for them. One has been sold and is getting a new frame at one of the racecar building shops that does modifieds and IMCA's.
I don't care what people say, Toyota is doing the owners right by this. It seems that most of the Tacoma's were getting are worth arond 10k after Toyota gets the numbers crunched. Hell, we've put almost 50 of these trucks on death row. Last week we had one almost completely break in two on the lift...lol!!
Perhaps or....
It could be that Toyota would be up a creek if they had to *fix* everyone of those with a safety defect and rusted frame. When was the last time a normal production vehicle has severe rust problems like that? I know this is just part of the way Toyota handles failures, that's why I'm not too impressed with it. Yes, it is good they are doing something...they had to, not much choice in that. Besides, they will sell more car or trucks because of it. The only other options would be to replace the frames. It could have cost them more.
gunslinger
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New guy at work didn't know about the recall. He was second owner of a 97 Tacoma. Took it into the dealer, got a rental car for 30 days and a check for $10,100 two days later.
My fathers good friend trade his 99 Tacoma in and traded it towards Yaris. His truck was well worn, high miles and the frame broke on the lift at the dealership. The great thing for him is he had been debating on buying a smaller more fuel efficient car anyways and he never would have gotten anywhere near the 10K they gave him.
BuickMike231
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A girl I work with had one of the trucks and that was the first and only time I had heard about this besides this thread. It's amazing how something like this from a non-American company can stay so quiet, yet GM or Ford has a problem and it's everywhere. People think Toyota's are the best quality cars ever, but they've had tons of recalls on pretty serious things in numbers much larger than any American company, yet people still think American cars are all crap. It's pretty nuts!
Joe Kelsch
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My cousin's boyfriend had a 2000. Toyota cut him a check for 14k. He only paid 8k for the truck 1 year ago.
