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9.5
really awful- Typical Repair Cost:
- No data
- Average Mileage:
- 136,900 miles
- Total Complaints:
- 4 complaints
Most Common Solutions:
- not sure (3 reports)
- piston ring replacement (1 reports)
engine problem
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A D V E R T I S E M E N T S
I purchased this vehicle with 135,000 miles on it, shortly after I bought the car I noticed excessive oil consumption. it wasn’t bad at first. When I would take the car in for regular oil changes at 5,000 miles I was told my oil was about a quart low. Over time, the intervals in which I needed to add a quart of oil significantly increased. In the past 2 years it went from burning a quart of oil every 1,000 miles to every 800 miles and is now burning a quart every 500 miles at 241,000 miles.
I had a compression test done and it was confirmed it is leaking piston rings, which I already guessed based on other Toyota oil consumption problems being due to faulty rings. Toyota did issue a service bulletin about this but only in their 2006-2011. 2az-fe engines. I believe this issue affected many other model years based on researching this issue. Almost all years of the 2az-fe engines seem to have this issue. I’ve seen complaints about this same issue in models as new as 2013 for the Camry, Prius, RAV 4, and Avalon 4 cylinder engines.
I wish Toyota would do the right thing and fix this issue for free fir all models effected, and add more model years to their service bulletin, or issue another one adding more model years. they know this issue effected more than the models they claim. this is costing people thousands of dollars and resulting in engine failure. This also causes many other issues such as spark plugs needing to be replaced, catalytic converter failure, etc from the excessive oil burning.
- Tiffany L., Renton, US