New Short Block

[silverarrow]

nice chaps at toyota have fitted a new block /short engine to my friends car

1.4 vvtti 2001 reg

it had the high oil consumption problem

but well done toyota and thanks for the help from this site :group-cuddles:

but it has taken 6 months and a lot of time to obtain the new engine

but to all with high oil consumption keep on to toyota uk and the dealer

i am led to understand that BBC Watchdog are interested in this problem

good luck to all high oil consumption users

ask toyota what this is doing to global warming ???

[Black Knight]

Good on him, glad to hear he got a new engine.

Can you post a summary of how he went about getting it done and some hints and tips? Sounds like a few people would find it pretty useful.

Don't think it will be doing an awful lot to affect global warming though. Totally road transport accounts for 21% of Green house gas emissions (source: CAR - october). Seem to remember toyota having something like a 5% market share in europe and probably Avensis, Corolla and Yaris will make up the bulk of that. So lets assume 3% of that market share is Corolla and Avensis. Of that I've only heard of the problem being on ZZ engines. If we discount Diesels and the bigger non ZZ engines lets assume that's a maximum potential of 2% affected. However it doesn't sound like that many car's have been affected. Think there's currently 5 threads running on the topic and 1-2 cars affected per thread so that's 8 cars out of a total membership of 23411 people (or 0.034%)

So that is 0.034% affected out of a 2% maximum potential of a 21% total affect. Talk about Negligable! and that's before you factor in things like actually how much affect it could actually have due to the oil being burnt off at high temperature in the combustion chamber and catalytic convertor

[european_bob]

ask toyota what this is doing to global warming ???

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Hybrid sysnrgy :P

If there really is a fault with your vehical,Toyota will cover it aslong as its still cover by the warrenty.

[silverarrow]

yep i like it hybrid

but the engine has a 5 yrs 100k on the engine if reported high oil consumption hush hush warranty

why ?????? because toyota know the engines are duff