GR Corolla catches fire; Toyota denies warranty claim
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It doubtful, it's not that much lower than stock.
Two months ago another GR corolla went up in flames in the same spot, back of the engine by the turbo and Toyota's response was straight up copy+paste with the two events.
Well I checked the national database for door switch fires and lo and behold my model truck and Honda Fit came up with multiple diagnosis of the problem.
Why would I fight through GMC about it? State Farm did it for me, they got paid back by GMC hence State Farm gave me my deductible back.
I was in a new truck in days and didn’t have to bother with GMC hiring an electric engineer to diagnose the problem, hope they would admit fault, and get me a new truck.
wemay
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While this may not have happened to you in this specific case, there was a real possibility your insurance company jacked your rates due to the claim. I'm also not saying you wouldn't have ended up filing with insurance in the end anyway, but it's not where I would've started. I would not advise people to simply skip trying to warranty the defect to file with insurance either and I would at least try have to the manufacturer warranty this problem.
That is because they are HOT rod Corollas. [I need to move to Oregon so I can start consuming drugs.]Toyotas went from great cars to mainstream garbage like most of their competition.
pretty much every brand nowdays
I seem to remember Lexus was pushing EXTREME high performance driving in their TV/Cable commercial's a good couple of years ago. Then all these GR cars came out from Toyota. The CEO (now retired) was a big racing guy. He knows how cars can have issues when raced. So why all the BS scapegoating. You know better than any car company what was going to happen. Yet you want zero warranty exposure to warranty. HELLO, Lexus and Toyota, WE/ Others are using your cars “AS YOU SHOWED US HOW TO USE THEM” Now you are backing down with lame excuses when you can’t seem to build a car that can take the hard use YOU told us we can do with your cars. Now it is our fault? We did what you told us to do and how to drive these cars through your own tutorials, I saw almost daily for at least a couple of years.
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Too much stress on three beer cans moving up and down. Should have bought tried and true Civic Type R/IntegraI remember getting laughed at for this comment. Now who's laughing?
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I'll just keep my Malipoo or um Malibu...I have owned probably over 22 GM products. I have never had this type of problem with ANY of them not to mention some of the problems people have here with VW, Toyota and Honda on this board alone. Granted I have lost a few transmissions in my modified cars, a 10 bolt rear end here or there and some water pumps, alternators and one pesky power steering pump in the WS6. I have never lost an engine and in all that time maybe 3 or 4 warranty claims 2 of which were my fault. According to my friends and family I tend to be "Mechanically insensitive" so there is that too. I ran at least 7 of them to over 230,000 miles. A lot of them over 150,000 miles.
In regards to this problem I don't know how they could void the warranty unless the car was modified or they were doing something stupid. Seems to me Toyota would just fix this problem so it will go away. One thing, and this is my observation based off owning mostly GM stuff for the better part of 30 years, bad publicity warranted or not will cost you more money than just replacing this one car and making the problem go away.
In regards to this problem I don't know how they could void the warranty unless the car was modified or they were doing something stupid. Seems to me Toyota would just fix this problem so it will go away. One thing, and this is my observation based off owning mostly GM stuff for the better part of 30 years, bad publicity warranted or not will cost you more money than just replacing this one car and making the problem go away.
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It is typical Toyota response. They will try to avoid it until the point NHTSA gets involved. They had bunch of engines bombing and until NHTSA got involved they didn’t move a finger.
Toyota knows how to make a "hot" hatch
I just watched The Care Care Nut video on the Tacoma TRD and he pointed out quite a few places where Toyota appears to have gone cheap on parts and/or zero thought was put towards maintenance and repair. I'm sure the citizens of Rome thought it would last forever and I think Toyota is in decline chasing the almighty dollar. I know they're one of the few car companies killing it right now as far as profit, but sooner or later these issues will affect their reputation and sales not to mention their income statement as far as warranty expense. Being shady with warranty issues isn't going to help either in the time of social media and viral videos.
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Just watched that this morning. For the, you should get better.
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Yup, same here. Was a little surprised that the Trailhunter is cheaper. And is just as capable off-road without those ridiculous front seats.
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