I tried calling Rodland Toyota but they didn’t answer and gave no call back after providing my contact info to the robot/AI. I’m taking it into the dealership in Puyallup tomorrow, which is far more inconvenient than Rodland as I’m located in Snohomish. No error lights whatsoever.
I agree that other dealerships closer to me would seem to make more sense. However, the only dealership, other than Michael’s Toyota of Bellevue, that has answered my call and spoken with me, is the dealership in Puyallup. A couple coworkers told me they’ve dealt with them directly and had great experiences. From what I’ve read regarding other, more local dealerships, their service departments are seemingly just as bad, if not worse, than Bellevue. I just want this issue resolved sooner rather than later. If that means a lengthy drive there and back, I’m more than willing to do it.
Just because someone is stating an issue they are experiencing, does not mean they are saying its a widespread issue and dosen't nullify their experience. I don't think anyone here is complaining...
Yeah, my 2018 Pro had the broken coil issue (like they all did), and the parts took 6 weeks to get, they put me in a Rav4 (no charge) and kept me informed every step of the way.
I was able to speak with someone at Rodland this morning and they were miraculously able to at least take a look at my 4Runner today. I’ll post an update after they (hopefully) resolve the issue.
I’m really hopeful that was a one time thing, but I fear it wasn’t. I’ve read a couple other posts of something similar happening to a few other people. This never happened to me, even with the other issues, until recently, when I returned home, came to a complete stop, put it in reverse to back into my driveway, and it slammed into gear after a second or two of seemingly searching for it.
I completely understand why you wouldn’t want to risk “testing” it for the sake of your transmission. I can’t recall if I always put it in sport mode for the first few weeks or month I drove it. I think I did though because one day I accidentally cleared the history of my average MPG so the next time I drove it it read somewhere around 14 MPG. I figured I’d keep it out of sport mode at the least, not going so far as to put it in eco mode, to see if I could get my average MPG up quickly as I wasn’t quite satisfied with what I was seeing. That’s around the time I started noticing significant problems with my transmission if my foggy memory serves me correctly. I wasn’t paying much attention due to the fact I didn’t think my brand new 4Runner would have a problem such as this.
I learned, after purchasing my Pro, that these transmissions are “learning transmissions”. It gave me hope that maybe this was all it was, it was just learning my different driving habits. A few hundred miles later, the violent downshifts from 3rd to 2nd and 2nd to 1st started happening. That’s when I knew without a doubt, there’s a much larger issue. Usually the first few hundred feet of driving, after initial startup, it will “hiccup” slightly. I could live with that if that’s all it was, unfortunately it’s not. I hope you don’t have any issues more than just a hiccup from time to time!
