@imperator "certain machining debris may not have been cleared from the engine when it was produced", this kind of news is what ruins a reputation😢

@imperator Yikes! That's Hyundai/Kia territory!

We'll see what the investigation brings. I wouldn't be surprised if "machining debris" is just a story to cover up more serious design flaws.

Vehicles recalled so far: 126,691 . Cracks are starting to show in Toyota's story. Why did they "improve" the main bearing in April 2024? That's doesn't sound like a debris issue.

https://youtu.be/91XSwzTXbcY

An actual tear-down of the Tundra twin turbo V6 that's been in the news so much lately: https://youtu.be/vL4tIHf_9i8

Just finished watching the video .... the tear-down, the engine design, and the diagnosis were all equally interesting. It's a highly recommended watch if you're interested in this sort of thing.
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Anyway, the verdict is very fascinating. The patient is a seized Tundra engine of course. The oil has metal glitter in it, as expected. But only the main bearings are trashed. The rod bearings and valve-train are all in good shape. The glitter seems to be result of the spun bearings, not a cause. If the problem was machining debris as Toyota claims, you would see damage everywhere. What is also interesting is the scraping on the sides of the rods. I don't think crankshafts should be moving around that much!

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The valves also look absolutely horrendous for an almost new engine.
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The results are NOT consistent with Toyota's story at all. It's more likely this failure points to an engine design flaw. It sounds like the same kind of PR baloney that Hyundai tried to pull with their Theta engines, as a desperate attempt not to lose customers. They don't want people to know the engines are trash, and lose sales on an entire generation of vehicles (Tundra, Landcruiser and various Lexus -- from Japan mind you). You know the story is nonsense when replacement engines grenade the same way, or the same engine from another plant does the same thing. You know they're hiding something when dealers are guarding totalled engines.

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Hopefully the NHTSA is savvy to this trickery but I doubt anything helpful will come of it. Once an engine design is approved for production(it costs a monumental amount of R&D money to get to that point), they never go back to the drawing board. At that point, it becomes band-aid time.

Even more Tundra updates: https://youtu.be/ChdjfKHueLg

- more stories of replacement crate engines failing just like the originals (sometimes with even less miles!). Again completely invalidating the "machining debris" story.

- Hybrid Tundra that spontaneous combusted . video of the blaze next to owner's house, and subsequent carnage: https://www.facebook.com/groups/416962283933995/posts/1150579070572309/)

- Sunroofs inexplicably blowing outwards. Toyota blaming customers and washing their hand of it just like the 'solar convergence' fiasco.

Another Tundra that spontaneously combusted. On the freeway going 70mph this time. 70 year old owner and his wife barely escaped with their lives. Had to jump out of moving vehicle because brakes failed, with trailer in tow. (In case you needed more proof that electronic parking brakes are dumb as heck and lethal).

https://youtu.be/t7LbD6L9jgM

@imperator remarkable story, he kept a cool head.. wow

@avalon04 moved to news

@imperator good grief.. all this George Jetson car modeling.. an unresponsive screen could be caused by a 100 different things!.

@chucktobias just when you think that BMWs cannot become even more of a pain to own and operate, BMW executives find a way. Just another money pit that's a rolling disaster.

@hixster Not just your face, but eye movements, which means tracking what you're looking at. The infrared camera they talk about would be able to monitor things like your temperature and heart rate as well. Definitely scary Big Brother stuff. However, as usual, the article is misleading. (AKA lazy scumbag clickbait reporting)
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We should always take these sensational headlines with a grain of salt. There's nothing final about this legislation. As far as I can tell, the house bill directed the NHTSA to come up with recommendations for a tech solution to drunk driving. And If not recommended, a report why not: "barriers to finalizing the Federal motor vehicle safety standard". You can read the bill here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3684/text
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The NTHSA report basically said: there is no solution that currently meets the requirements. It's not implementable. You can read it for yourself here: ( https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/2026-03/Report-to-Congress-Advanced-Impaired-Driving-Prevention-Technology.pdf ).
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I don't think this Act can be fully realized without opening a bunch of cans of worms and breaking existing laws. I think it will be challenged and ultimately killed. Unfortunately, if it were to somehow come to fruition , it will be in some castrated, half-baked form that will do nothing to accomplish the goal, but will make owning a car somehow even more frustrating.

@moutainmanjoe Yes , I got suckered!!! I'm glad the yahoo article turned out to be clickbait. My first thought upon seeing it was 'No way'.. that would be all over the news (if it were actually true).
So Yahoo is not a source of truth? lol

@hixster Yahoo and the other half a dozen or so websites that blindly reposted the original gadgetreview.com article.

@chucktobias as crooked as they come. So it's a case of scammer versus scammer. There exist individuals who ordered the destruction of those emails and cars, and they should be put in prison. The Korean government (taxpayers) will just bail out the company and they'll carry on scamming people.