Celica 190 Problems......

[Pasty]

Well Toyota have managed to strip my car down and find out the problem with it!

Are you ready for this....

The reason for lost compression on no. 4 is that the Piston Bore has gone oval!

Hmm sounds strange to me. I am now awaiting a response from the nice people in Toyota customer care to decide if they will contribute to the costs!

25000 miles on the clock. Yreg (about 6 months out of warrenty) with 4 services already (including the recent for year service in January)

Not sure why the Bore should be oval already! but I'll wait and see how much parts and 15hours labour will cost me!

Not sure why I wrote this but to say I am gutted.... have missed my car SOOOooo much!

Almost loosing my faith in Toyota's and the S2000/Civic type R are looking like the choice I should have made 5 months ago!!!!!

Cheers

Pasty

[Cubic Incubi]

couple of grand no doubt.

Are you a member of http://www.celica-club.co.uk we have amember who works at a toyota dealership, i'm sure other gen 7 owners would want to know your story, this is serious component failure we are talking about.

hope you get it sorted.

regards

Karl

[celicauk]

Sounds like you got unlucky and had a dodgy casting on the bores. The engine is an open deck design and the bores are fitted using the bottom end of the liners to hold them in place. They are further held by the compression of the head being cranked down. At higher temps and revs etc the bores actually move a wee bit, if your getting excessive deflection in the bores then the walls will wear unevenly or be forced out of shape basically by the piston slapping around. Would be interesting to know if they have gone oval front ot back or side to side.

Cant see why Toyota wouldnt foot the bill for at least a new short block, I certainly wouldnt be accepting any repair with any of the bottom end components in place.

Best of luck

Simon