Almost spring (march) B.S. thread
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I heard the same thing. I am not a Toyota fan, or any vehicle not made by one of the big three, but Toyota is foolish.
They have never come out and shown people the actual problem or had some one show and explain the fix. I never claimed to be very smart, but when you have a piece of plastic that is wearing against another piece of plastic and your fix is to add a steel shim (I believe). Makes alot of sense, I am sure the plastic that wore becasue of the other plastic is much harder than the steel shim.
Ok, I jumped off my soap box.
They have never come out and shown people the actual problem or had some one show and explain the fix. I never claimed to be very smart, but when you have a piece of plastic that is wearing against another piece of plastic and your fix is to add a steel shim (I believe). Makes alot of sense, I am sure the plastic that wore becasue of the other plastic is much harder than the steel shim.
Ok, I jumped off my soap box.
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I heard the same thing. I am not a Toyota fan, or any vehicle not made by one of the big three, but Toyota is foolish.
They have never come out and shown people the actual problem or had some one show and explain the fix. I never claimed to be very smart, but when you have a piece of plastic that is wearing against another piece of plastic and your fix is to add a steel shim (I believe). Makes alot of sense, I am sure the plastic that wore becasue of the other plastic is much harder than the steel shim.
Ok, I jumped off my soap box.
They have never come out and shown people the actual problem or had some one show and explain the fix. I never claimed to be very smart, but when you have a piece of plastic that is wearing against another piece of plastic and your fix is to add a steel shim (I believe). Makes alot of sense, I am sure the plastic that wore becasue of the other plastic is much harder than the steel shim.
Ok, I jumped off my soap box.
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From: Howard Lake, Minnesota
Same thing I have heard all along. Maybe that is why they have not come out and explained how the shim will work.
We make some products for one of those large Japaneese owned companies, and they have had failures, and they keep having me & others do a failure analysys of the parts and we keep giveing them the same recommendation, it is the design, and do they listen? Heck No
We make some products for one of those large Japaneese owned companies, and they have had failures, and they keep having me & others do a failure analysys of the parts and we keep giveing them the same recommendation, it is the design, and do they listen? Heck No
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From: Hampstead, NC
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