Taking a performance sports car to the track provides an excellent opportunity to explore its capabilities and understand its characteristics more intimately. However, for one unlucky Toyota GR 86 owner, his day at the track ended with him learning what a broken engine sounds like. Although the vehicle is supposedly in stock condition, the owner claims the dealer is denying warranty coverage, leaving him in a frustrating situation.
According to the person at the center of a YouTube channel called Lunk, the 2022 GR 86 in question has 19,000 miles (30,577 km), a new oil change, and no engine modifications. Lunk says the unnamed dealer and the Toyota company are “denying warranty coverage for this due to the nature in which the vehicle was used.”
The video of the engine failure is not as dramatic as one might expect given the catastrophic nature of this breakdown. Instead, we get about six minutes of fairly quiet track driving. Speeds are usually below highway limits and the driver doesn’t turn off the rev limiter either.
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Despite this, there is a noticeable change in engine behavior around the six minute mark. At this stage, all that is known is what Lunk, who also goes by the alias Lukeine on Reddit, has shared online, stating that “I contacted the company and they echoed the dealer’s response, denying -se to review the video”. If this is true, it raises some questions and seems pretty strange.
Wait, haven’t we heard of another similar GR 86 breakdown?
In case any of this sounds familiar, that’s good because it should. Last August, another GR 86 owner said his Toyota dealer denied him coverage for a broken engine because he claimed he abused the car. His evidence was a video of the owner using the car during an Autocross event. In this case, Toyota ended up covering the engine and assured its customer base that using the vehicle in performance driving events would not void the warranty by itself.
This new incident has understandably raised doubts about the stated position. It is important to note that customer claims do not always reflect the whole truth, as past events have shown. In order to gather more information, we have contacted both the owner of the GR 86 in question and Toyota. We will provide an update in this space if we hear back from any of them.
Image credit: LUNK
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Read: Ford Says Broken Bronco Diffs Were The Fault Of Aftermarket Mods, Not Trail Turn Assist"
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