Iāll try and take a pic of the itemized list. It was the entire engine assembly. Pretty sure you keep the same ECU. Iād revert back to stock, itās a bitch but you donāt want them to try and find a reason to void your warranty.
yeah Iāve heard of this bulletin. I was hoping they would offer me a new engine before this came outā¦ guess not..
Edit: Was on mobile and didn't see that you are talking about a E92 M3, I just assumed N54 problems ?
You wind up dumping it/trading it in or?
Interesting, that I wasnāt aware of. I wonder what shopping times for replacement engines are from Europe if they donāt have them state side. A local a91 to me is having an engine replacement because of this issue
After a little back and forth with Toyota, I was able to sell it back to the dealership. I was lucky and got a little over $6k above what I paid for it new. Iām not sure that was any different than what Carmax would have paid ($55.5k).
Good point. I'd say it was generally about 2-3k in the beginning, then when the valve covers got warped and just constantly shit oil all over the engine bay, probably every 1k (sometimes less). I average it out to about 1500 when I look at my Google Sheet about it (I kept track, I like data). After I got new valve covers fresh from BMW, went back to about every 2k, sometimes less. I was at almost 150k when the main bearing started knocking, then went away after some work, just crested 155 when it really put some metal in the pan and started sounding like a steel drum solo. Before that, most likely just due to age, it was getting lesser and lesser between quarts. But 155k on an //M engine is alright in my book.
Agreed- if you're over 3,000 miles and haven't gotten check oil then you're probably good. My first low oil showed at ~1200-1500 and it was because I ran the oil check. I was running the test every couple hundred miles (having read other people having the same issue). After that, the other few quarts I've had to add I waited until it notified me. I've pretty much parked it- probably only put 500 miles on the car in the past 4-5 months but am on the fence about whether I'm going to wait for the fix or get rid of it.
Fighting with Toyota right now about this. 15 qts added in 11k miles. Plano blew me off and said there's nothing wrong with it without even inspecting the vehicle. Getting a Lemon Law attorney now and would like as many similar stories, replacement situations to prove other people have this problem and are getting action but Im not. Any information you can provide, Id appreciate. Did you have them do a compression / leak down test as well or just inspect the cylinder walls?
I take my car back soon after burning 1QT in 700 miles after having service to address the non-working Oil-level sensor. Toyota Cedar park has been wonderful so far to work with, but I do wonder what they will do about this oil consumption on my car. There is a new service bulletin coming out soon, that addresses this issue specifically, so I guess I will be going in to get this new procedure done.
