Head Gasket Replacement

[conker]

Hello Forum,

As a new owner of a 2.2 Avensis Spirit estate, and new member of this excellenty forum!

I have now seen from the information written on this forum that my 2.2 might have cylinder head problems at some stage!

What percentage of Avensis made actually have this problem?

Out of interest? If Toyota knows of this major head gasket problems, and have to rebuild these engines on a regular basis!

Would it not have been cheaper and easier for Toyota to sort the problem by sourcing a better make of head gasket and uprate the water pump and replace them say at 40000 mile service or before or am l just over cautious!

Thank you

[Heidfirst]

Hi & welcome to the forum :)

I have now seen from the information written on this forum that my 2.2 might have cylinder head problems at some stage!

What percentage of Avensis made actually have this problem?

It's not just Avensis but at least Auris & RAV4s too (& probably also some Lexus).

Only Toyota knows the % that fail.

Out of interest? If Toyota knows of this major head gasket problems, and have to rebuild these engines on a regular basis!

Would it not have been cheaper and easier for Toyota to sort the problem by sourcing a better make of head gasket and uprate the water pump and replace them say at 40000 mile service or before or am l just over cautious!

Toyota will have done their sums with the information available & obviously decided not.

The good news is that we've actually ended up with a better warranty (7 years/112k miles) on the engine than you get on a new car!