Me too, curious about this. Haven’t seen whether the tacomas having the transmission issues are hybrid or not.
Tacoma owners reporting transmission failures
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I thought hard about get a extended warranty, but if in 3 years the track record of the LC isn't favorable, time to find another car, or maybe buy a warranty then...
My last two cars barely made 2 years (one got totaled 2 years in and other one started to leak oil between the engine and the transmission @4000 miles and a sold it back to another dealer within a week)
So who knows.
if it start to act up, time to say bye bye
My last two cars barely made 2 years (one got totaled 2 years in and other one started to leak oil between the engine and the transmission @4000 miles and a sold it back to another dealer within a week)
So who knows.
if it start to act up, time to say bye bye
if "peace of mind" is a dopamine response to a sales pitch due to financial ignorance, then sure. But the dealers finance manager selling the insurance doesn't buy extended warranties. For him that sort of purchase would not bring peace of mind. He would just be choosing to be poorer.
It's ironic that on new car forms there are discussions about extended warranties and how smart someone was about getting a windshield replacement add-on. Never seen a discussion about liability coverage or umbrella policies.
Of course. You are also free to be one of those guys in his sixties handing me coffee at the McDonalds drive through. As long as your poor financial decisions don't affect my taxes I don't care.
This place has been wonderfully free of people being jerks, it would be great to keep it that way. Very much appreciate the welcome respite from the adversarial tone that’s become all too common pretty much everywhere else in the world these days.
I agree!
To quote a FB meme:
"Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right"
You haven't disagreed with me. To do that you would need to make a financial case that an extended warranty is better than self funding repairs. There is a case to be made for poor people who are buying used vehicles to lock in a cost per month. Not being able to get to work at McDonalds may be a major financial issue worth insuring against. But no one would buy a new, expensive, completely unnecessary vehicle yet they could not easily pay for a transmission replacement, right?
It's not my opinion that extended warranties have a strongly negative expected value.
Can we get back to discussing any potential differences between the Taco and LC transmissions?
As i posted earlier, even the MT tacos are having transmission issues. Those kinds of breadcrumbs may indicate that the issues are tacoma related and unlikely to crossover to the LC
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There only relevant report seems to on the TRD Pro which broke down at a few hundred miles. I don't know why the non-hybrid failures would be relevant.
A single failure happens. I would be more concerned if the oldest 2024 hybrid Tacos were having issues.
But those concerned should note that modifying vehicles may eliminate the lemon law option.
The 13 complaints amount to 0.0001% of all Tacoma trucks sold during the first half ending June 2024. Would be great if there were no complaints but 1/100th of one percent is minuscule.
Yes, this is a “first year” of manufacturing, am fully expecting trouble with transmission (Tacoma) and hybrid system that needs to prove itself in use, so paid for 5 years bumper-to-bumper so that after year # all the gremlins get replaced without the usual Toyota denial till the warranty is up at 36 month. Consider it a no BS insurance maybe?
