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2009 Toyota Camry SLE Catastrophic Oil Loss RECALL

  

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Hi Scotty, I’ve been a Toyota fanatic when me and my wife first got married. We were working poor class and my dad found a 1991 CamryLE 4 Cyl with just 70k miles. The little old lady sold it to me for $400. The pass from door had a slight crease in it, so my dad, may he Rest In Peace, was a certified body man and pulled must of the dent and filled the crease and painted it with the factory matched color. Anyway, that car lasted us 14 years until it was totaled in an accident. 4 years ago we found another newer Camry from a neighbor who wanted it gone because it belonged to her young daughter who’d passed suddenly. It was a mint ( for me and my wife who are still struggling financially after 21 years of loving marriage) it was like having a brand new car. An 09 loaded SLE v6. It had just turned the 80k on odometer. The entire 4 years we only replaced tires and changed oil and simple maintenance. We paid only $2,300 for it. We love the car. Nicest car we’ve ever had. Two weeks ago my wife came home from work in it and told me to listen to a noise it was making. Immediately I knew I was hearing the valve train tapping and a loud chatter and nocking. I pulled it in my driveway that night and before I got it in the parking spot, I noticed streaks of oil leaks from the evening before. I got out and checked the oil because the low oil light never gave warning, but yet the stick didn’t have a drop of oil showing. My heart sunk. I looked under the car and oil was dripping and completely wind blown from front to back on the undercarriage. I was sick. The tapping the other horrible noises.

Anyway, I got on the internet and forums and heard the same problem with those Camrys having Vvt hose bursting and draining the engine of all the oil. Well, it was a Recall for that problem. A lot of the customers in the forum got a whole new engine. 
  Long story short, the Toyota dealer fixed the leak and filled it with oil and tried to charge me for oiled change. I didn’t have the money for the oil. It was their recall, their oil to replace. They left all the leaked oil all over the undercarriage and called me and said it was done I could pick it up. Well, the car now makes a lot of noise in the top portion of the engine. It NEVER did that before the oil leaded out. It was friven two days with no oil in the car. Please Scotty, any advice? I can’t afford to fix the car if it’s burnt out from no oil for two work commutes. I informed the service manager about the noise the recall caused and he said it sounds normal. How does he know what sounds normal? The car was as smooth and quiet as my moms brand new rav4. He’s full of bologna and trying to tell me what’s normal and the car is far from the normal that it was. What type of damage do you think the new noise could be and I have no money for a lawyer and no money for repairs when this car breaks due to the obvious recall damage. Please....please! Help us Scotty. I don’t know where to turn to. I know Toyota’s are good cars but these guys are shafting me and my wife with this recall problem. Love your YouTube channel. Who knew car talk could be made into funny stuff. I like the owl screech and the donkey and hyena when you laugh. 😂😆


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If you can live with the noise, drive it until the car falls apart. If not, you need to rebuild the engine or swap from a junkyard.

 


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