Just need to vent...

Cops on crowd control duty.

I'm working near a long-planned special event and I certainly understand the need for public safety and crowd control, but the lack of coordination on the ground is stunning.

A lot harder to respect them when they don't show any respect for each other.

 

Just think how the Toyota executives are venting. 102,000 engines replaced? Even if done for only $5,000 that would be over ½ billion dollars.
Doesn't include all those rental cars - each for several days.
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Wasn’t the v6 engine failure due to inadequate cleaning before assembly? I would strongly guess the new engine is a great engine, like nearly all Toyota engines. I don’t understand the logic here that keeps the engines damaged by debris means the engines are no good.

 

Suggest a way. 102,000 failures suggest otherwise. Main bearings don't fail because things aren't perfectly clean. This will cost Toyota well over ½ billion. Can't help but think of the irony ... how if these had been a hundreds thousand + Electric vehicles, Toyota wouldn't have had this problem.
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102,000 units recalled, not failed.

 

Isn't the recall due to the likelihood of premature failure though?

 

That is very different than 'already failed'. We have received many recall notices over the decades, over all brands we have owned, only a couple of which where for failures we had actually experienced.