Re: RE: 4Runners and Audis (Job)

[STEADIRIC@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/28/97 12:39:33 AM, you wrote:

>Maybe this is why someone in my parking lot has signs on his Toyota 100
saying
>
>DO NOT BUT A TOYOTA.
>Pat Martin
>864000csq  2 1/2 cat back, H&R-Boge,advanced and loving it.  Drilled and 
>stopping it.  Koenig Cobra 16x7 with AVS Intermediates, K&N. 
>95 subaru legacy 
>Bothell, Wa.
>
>
>RUMOR has it that the V6 engines have a hidden recall due to high rate
>of failure. My friends 93 4Runner with 100,100 kms on itblew out a head
>gasket in November in the middle of Saskatchewan blizzard(that's cold)
>300kms from home. $4000 later the vehicle was running again. Of course
>this has escalated a "reliable" Toyota vs "Eurocrap" Audi pub
>discussion(ob. content). Then there was the 4Runner $900 fuel pump 
>failure.... 


Right now Nissan has a Silent recall going on for Pistion Slap problems on
startup......  A good friend of mine has a '95 pathfinder and just got a new
engine under the program.  The car went in for a look see and she was told
that she would get it back in three days with a new engine.


Eric Fletcher