Thread: Car Talk
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addison
Formerly “AWM”
 
Join Date: May 2009
 
2009-12-02, 20:58

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Originally Posted by turtle2472 View Post

It died young due to the sludge build up issue that model engine had.
My parents had that car. I remember one day my Dad told me he took it in for an oil change at the dealer and they recommended an anti sludge flush for the car. I thought it was a dealer scam since the car barely had 30K on it. A few years later they were blowing up. Changes Toyota made to the engine making it run hotter combined with people following the wrong maintenance schedule for oil changes did a lot of them in. Those who did mostly highway miles or ran synthetic fared much better.
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