Land Cruisers are melting
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Not taking this too seriously until better substantiated/documented...
I do find the platic trim pieces quite soft and very easy to scratch
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First I've heard about it and you'd think that people in TX and AZ who had their trucks last summer would have noticed.
Not to mention Australia, UAE...
This article and others like it are the worst kind of filth in media. They are the root of the alternative facts situation that has volumes of people being presented with information designed to anger and motivate them, which may or may not be true or at best absent of context. This garbage is a scourge of our time and we have to find a way to get rid of it or at least recognize it.
Actual news stories are pursued by journalists, who identify a story lead, research it, and triangulate their sources two or even three times before their editors clear the story to run. A news outlet found to push unverified or fake information would feel embarrassed and discredited and would go to any length to avoid it again.
This article is a collection of opinion posts that this person found on this and other internet discussion forums. He’s taken people’s unqualified and unresearched observations and is shamelessly presenting them as news, as equivalent to the journalism I described above. This writer’s sources are us and people like us, and I’m sorry to tell you guys that people on the internet talk entirely and directly out of their asses on the regular.
With respect to the OP - I do hope as a society we can learn not to propagate intentionally provocative internet tripe.
Actual news stories are pursued by journalists, who identify a story lead, research it, and triangulate their sources two or even three times before their editors clear the story to run. A news outlet found to push unverified or fake information would feel embarrassed and discredited and would go to any length to avoid it again.
This article is a collection of opinion posts that this person found on this and other internet discussion forums. He’s taken people’s unqualified and unresearched observations and is shamelessly presenting them as news, as equivalent to the journalism I described above. This writer’s sources are us and people like us, and I’m sorry to tell you guys that people on the internet talk entirely and directly out of their asses on the regular.
With respect to the OP - I do hope as a society we can learn not to propagate intentionally provocative internet tripe.
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Didn’t bother reading the article. I live in Vegas and we have members from Arizona. You would have heared from us if this were an issue.
I can validate that this happens and it may be a Japanese thing. My daughters 2024 Subaru Forester was parked for a couple of weeks at my house (summer in phoenix) and apparently the reflection of the sun off the house window caused the trim on the pillar between the back door and the back side window to warp and look melted. Subaru fixed it under warranty without question and we moved on..... Not the headline kind of material. It is possible but not going to happen under normal circumstances, and certainly not from normal sun exposure.
Apparently it happens with many vendors and is a bi-product of how light bounces off and concentrates away from modern e-glass.
There is a ~20 story bank building in downtown Austin that, when built, had a gold coating on the windows. The coating somehow had a tendency to focus the sun in reflection and it caused all manner of similar issues until they replaced the entire facade in the late 90s.
But that is a story about the building, not about the things that caught fire from its reflection.
I’m reluctant to spend any cycles at all analyzing that piece of garbage article, but this is one of the main issues - it totally ignores the cause of what may be occurring and implies that the trucks are melting in the course of normal use.
But that is a story about the building, not about the things that caught fire from its reflection.
I’m reluctant to spend any cycles at all analyzing that piece of garbage article, but this is one of the main issues - it totally ignores the cause of what may be occurring and implies that the trucks are melting in the course of normal use.
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at 5:40 in the video.
Could just be Bad PPF Film or he parked it somewhere in a hotspot
This is clearly a Lexus problem. Everyone knows Lexus and Toyota are completely different manufacturers.
Got my LC in July and I parked it outside at work all summer - i havent noticed anything.
Those photos Looks like someone took a blow torch or a magnifying glass to the plastic lol
Those photos Looks like someone took a blow torch or a magnifying glass to the plastic lol
File this under "obvious things that happen to any vehicle if you focus light on a dark surface for long enough".
Just parking in the sun will not cause the melting. Lots of us had these cars baking in the sun all summer. I think the damage in those photos is from parking close to a window (either another vehicle or building) that has a coating on it that reflects the sun more intensely. Seems like the coating on some windows creates a magnifying glass effect.
Welcome to the asylum LandC250FE.
