- #3869 of 4699
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Re: Whining Noise in Rear Axle [gencon]
by gencon
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Jan 08, 2007 (11:32 am)
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Replying to: gencon (Dec 03, 2006 8:19 pm)
Another dealer changed front driver side bearing/house( for
$500 under warranty). Now the siren noise comes down a bit, but still there. May be the passenger side should also fixed. Very upset for such noise to my new car. I should do more test drive upon buying
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- #3870 of 4699
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Re: Highlander check engine light [kenabr]
by eamonn1
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Jan 10, 2007 (11:04 am)
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Replying to: kenabr (Jan 06, 2007 8:52 pm)
Don't know where to post my question so I'm tagging on here. I recently purchased (CARMAX) a 2005 4WD Highlander. MX book indicates certain service requirements every 5,000 miles, including oil change. Every vehicle I owned previously, oil changes were to be done at 3,000 miles. Do you folks use the 5,000 mile rule? Thanks
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- #3871 of 4699
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Re: Highlander check engine light [eamonn1]
by desertguy
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Jan 10, 2007 (1:39 pm)
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Replying to: eamonn1 (Jan 10, 2007 11:04 am)
You can't go wrong following the owners manual. 5000 miles is sufficient with todays oils. Many cars have been stretched to 7,500 and even 10,000 for Jaguar and BMW and others. If you continue to do it at 3,000 you are a service depts. delight and you are wasting resources.
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- #3872 of 4699
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Re: Highlander check engine light [eamonn1]
by lostwrench
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Jan 10, 2007 (2:38 pm)
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Replying to: eamonn1 (Jan 10, 2007 11:04 am)
My Grand Marquis requires oil changes at 5000 miles which I do. My VW Rabbit required oil changes at 7500 miles which I did until it died at 289,000 miles.
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- #3873 of 4699
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Re: Highlander check engine light [eamonn1]
by toyotagal
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Jan 10, 2007 (3:21 pm)
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Replying to: eamonn1 (Jan 10, 2007 11:04 am)
A factor that also plays in to oil changes is time, I am told. With an oil change necessary at 6 months even if you don't have 5k etc. on the vehicle during that 6 months. Is that everyone's understanding? i.e. an oil change although the mileage requirement has not been reached due to limited driving.
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- #3874 of 4699
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Re: Highlander check engine light [toyotagal]
by desertguy
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Jan 10, 2007 (5:48 pm)
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Replying to: toyotagal (Jan 10, 2007 3:21 pm)
Yes, you are correct. In fact I am about to have mine changed because of the 6 months time factor and I have only driven 4200 since the last change.
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- #3875 of 4699
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Re: Highlander check engine light [toyotagal]
by herzogtum71
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Jan 11, 2007 (8:53 am)
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Replying to: toyotagal (Jan 10, 2007 3:21 pm)
That's the advice I read last week in a newspaper car column. Change at 5,000 if you drive that much. Otherwise at least every 6 months. The service department at my dealer has been recommending the 5,000 interval for several years.
My last oil change was done by an independent drive-in place. They still recommend 3,000 but that's just an attempt to drum up business. Since they charge more than the dealer and didn't do everything they said they did (like check tire pressure), I'm going to plan ahead a bit better next time and have the dealer do it.
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- #3876 of 4699
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Transmission - rolling mass
by garywi
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Jan 11, 2007 (9:17 am)
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For all you 5 speed V6-2WD owners: do you feel you have to fight to slow down your Highlander? On my Corolla, when I take my foot off the gas, the car goes to a neutral state and slowly decelerates. When I take my foot off the gas in the Highlander, it does not slow down easily. I rented a Hundia Sonata SUV on my last trip. It was a V6. It was soooo much easier to drive than my expensive Highlander. I was not always fighting to slow the thing down.
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- #3877 of 4699
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Re: Transmission - rolling mass [garywi]
by wwest
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Jan 11, 2007 (9:57 am)
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Replying to: garywi (Jan 11, 2007 9:17 am)
Late in the last century most manufacturers of FWD or front torque biased AWd vehicles adopted a new shift pattern/schedule for their automatic transaxles. The new shift sequence will ALWAYS upshift the transaxle upon a FULL lift-throttle event in order to reduce the potential for loss of directional control due to engine compression braking and/or having it interfere with the ability of the anti-lock system to fully release ALL braking effects.
With a manual shift transaxle the driver can always depress the clutch pedal if a downshift results in too much engine compression braking for roadbed conditions. But with an automatic the only option is to slip the gear shift into neutral and then ...wait... for the transaxle to follow.
Some of the newer owners manuals spell out the fact that NO engine compression braking will be available absent the driver manually downshifting the automatic transaxle and not even then unless the cruise control is off.
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- #3878 of 4699
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Re: Steering wheel clunking [matthew]
by matthew
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Jan 12, 2007 (5:07 am)
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Replying to: matthew (Jan 05, 2007 12:07 pm)
As promised I am posting my experience at the dealer yesterday. I left the car with them, they called me a couple of hours later to say that they could not find anything wrong (big surprise!). I told them I would go on a drive with the mechanic when I come to pick the car up. Sure enough he heard the sound with a minute or two of driving. They now ordered a new steering column and will install it next week.
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