Re: The Truth About Toyota Engine Oil Sludge

You might want to check the model years of those Toyota owners complaining,
as well. Based on what some in this NG would like others to believe, only
those Toyota owner prior to 1998 always properly maintained their engines.
LOL


mike


"C. E. White" <cewhite@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> Ask yourself this question - If the you took all the Toyota Sludge Claims,
> and replaced the name Toyota with Chevrolet, would you still believe it
> was all BS?
>
> My other point would be, why is that Toyota seemed to be suffer from many
> many more complaints than other brands? I see a few complaints about
> Chryslers, but very few about GM, Nissan, Ford, Honda, etc. engines. Do
> you think owners of other brands are more likely to change their oil
> regularly than Toyota owners?
>
> Google Search Results
>
> "Toyota Sludge" - 6,130 hits
> "GM Sludge" - 48 hits
> "Nissan Sludge" - 61 hits
> "Ford Sludge" - 136 hits (almost all the "Ford Sludge" hits are related to
> industrial site environmental problems in NJ)
> "Chrysler Sludge" - 76 hits
> "Toyota Engine Sludge" - 925 hits
> "Ford Engine Sludge" - 0 hits
> "GM Engine Sludge" - 0 hits
> "Chevrolet Engine Sludge" - 5 hits
> "Toyota Oil Sludge" - 21,100 hits
>
> You can try all sort of variations on sludge and oil and the manufacturer
> of your choice, and as soon as you include Toyota, the number of hits goes
> through the roof. Maybe all this traffic is from people denying that their
> WAS a Toyota engine sludge problem. Still, why is their so much internet
> traffic over something that never happened?
>
> And for the record - I do believe that people who actually changed there
> oil at 3000 mile intervals did not have a sludge problem. On the other
> hand Toyota did allow for 7500 mile oil changes for some of the models
> that supposedly suffered from sludge. After the sludge complains, Toyota
> lowered all US oil change intervals to 5000 miles (but they still have
> 10,000 mile intervals in other markets).
>
> Ed
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