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Re: Toyota Owners (online) Unite for Resolution: Engine Slu
Posted by Charlene Blake on 7/31/07

    On 7/27/07, Brad Newman wrote:
    >
    > On January 14th, 2002, after much study and test-driving new SUV's, I bought what I
    > had believed to be the BEST SUV for my money, Toyota Highlander. December of 2006 I
    > received the notification of class action lawsuit which, not realizing the situations
    > involved placed it into the glove compartment of my 2002 Highlander. January of 2007,
    > took two trips, one trip was 450 miles round, and the following weekend, 400 miles
    > round trip. After the first trip, the Highlander used 2 1/2 quarts of oil and the
    > second trip consumed 3 quarts of oil. I took my Toyota to the dealership where I
    > purchased it from and got the same BS as other people were receiving, that,
    > negligence would be the only cause for oil consumption and oil sludging...

    Brad, thank you very much for your Toyota engine oil slude account! You are FAR FROM
    ALONE and the naysayers know it well!

    I have heard from many Highlander owners who have experienced engine oil sludge at very
    low mileage. There was one here locally that had sludge at just 12,000 miles! Most of
    the sludge cases I have heard about in the Highlander occurred at well under 100,000
    miles.

    I wish you could have gotten an engine oil analysis on your vehicles oil before you let
    it go. These analyses are very revealing. Don't you wonder how long Toyota has had
    data related to such engine oil analyses? How much of this data would show that
    engines of the sludge-prone vehicles are to blame? What is really happening to the oil
    in these vehicles regardless of maintenance? Is something hastening the demise of the
    engine oil? Why, in some cases, is the TBN one or less so soon after an oil change?
    Why is the viscosity so low after so few miles in other cases? Why is there
    consistently higher than normal silicon levels in so many samples?

    Let's begin the discussion THERE, shall we? There is no room in this discussion for
    name-calling and mud-slinging, Mr. Voulin! Let's stick to the cold, hard
    facts...surely you will agree that this is the most educated approach to this issue!

    Charlene Blake
    cblake@erols.com
    Toyota Owners Online Unite for Resolution: Engine Oil Sludge

    Toyota Owners Online Unite for Resolution: Engine Oil Sludge

     
     

 
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