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"Bob H" <dontspam@nospam.org> wrote in message
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> DON'T FORGET THE INCREDIBLE GM PISTON SLAP ISSUES !!![/color]

Last year I was shopping for a new pick-up. Initially I was primarily
interested in a Tundra. I liked the size. I test drove three different
Tundras. All three sounded like rock crushers when they were initially
started. Two of the salesmen said it was perfectly normal and that they all
did that. The third salesman more or less ignored my question. Now maybe the
noise was not piston slap, but it sure sounded like piston slap, and it was
worse than any GM vehicle I have personal experience with. Now maybe it
wasn't a problem (it did clear up with in a 20 seconds in all three cases),
but it certainly was not the sort of happy noise that you expect from a
Toyota (at least based on all the BS you read about Toyotas). I also think
it is unconscionable that Toyota still requires routine valve inspection /
adjustment on many of their engines. In the end I bought a Nissan Frontier
instead of a Toyota. This was primarily due to cost. With similar equipment,
the Nissan was 3k less than a Toyota. So far the Nissan is fine.

Ed