Toyota Ute Engine Problem - which Dealer in Perth.

Apparently they have free 200km towing with their membership, already towed Yanchep to Bullcreek then to dealership of choice on Monday.

ok cool so many people do not read the fine print

I have premium serivce with RAA because i live in Broken hill

but for example to day mate who works with the a local tow company got called out lady had two flats on a trailor 100k s out of town rang holden road side assist sorry cover only covers car


so she has to pay big time

we need to read the paper work and ask questions so many just think they are covered and are not


Ihope it gets fixed nothing worse than a inter mitant fault they are a michanics nightmair

They were told that it could not be diagnosed unless the problem was occurring at the time. Had the fuel solenoid changed last Monday, but clearly that was a failure. Was hoping someone may have found or experienced a "better than usual" dealer, somewhere in a reasonable radius. ie, Canning vale, Melville, Freo, or thereabouts.

That is not generally correct - faults will be logged and read later. May not solve the issue but will point to the right area.

A couple of quetions.

What year is the vehicle i.e. what engine?

If as you stated in the thread about an engine scanner the problem was temporarily cured by some sort of priming or pumping fuel up to the engine wouldn't that indicate a simple fuel line or filter problem or a fuel pump mechanical issue rather than anything to do with the electronics??

Cheers
Pop

I have been told the same thing (unable to find a previous fault that is not currently present) by a diagnostic mechanic.
A mates Falcon wagon stopped dead several years ago, and he called me, as well as a mobile mechanic, because he was only 3kms away when the Falcon stopped.

When the mobile mechanic arrived (at the same time as me), he pulled off the fuel line, checked the fuel was being pumped under pressure, reconnected the line - and the Falcon promptly started and ran like a top.
When the mechanic was asked if he could now find the fault, he reckoned it was impossible, as no fault was now showing, and it was almost certainly a transient fault, probably caused by the ECU processor failing temporarily due to heat.
When the microprocesser chucks it in - then starts working again - there's no fault recorded. I had this happen on a Ford climate control ECU.

If the fault is intermittent or transient, and not occurring when its connected to the diagnostic computer, there's often a low chance of a diagnostic computer finding the problem.
Not all faults are stored in ECU logs, it depends on how the ECU is programmed at the factory.

I had a Falcon Ghia wagon once, and the Ford service manager told me how Ford had to readjust the engine ECU error code programming so that it did not record transient, unimportant faults, typically such as, a wayward stick hitting a wiring connector, and making that connector disengage momentarily.
The fault had to be recorded for more than few seconds on the Fords before it was logged.

In addition, silicon chips and microprocessors often fail due to heat and age - but they will start working faultlessly again, when they cool.

A tow-truck mate told me they NEVER tried to start any car that had stopped with an electronic fault.
If they did, they quite often started again (because the ECU or microprocessor had cooled), and the potential tow job promptly thanked them, and then drove off!! LOL

So .. they woke up to this stunt, and they always winched on the non-functioning vehicle WITHOUT attempting to start it - then, when they got to the delivery location, they would start it up, and drive it off the truck! LOL

Cheers, Ron.

V8 diesel, 2010 or thereabouts

If there is no engine light on dash warning you of a problem, you can't fix it as its not logged on the computer. Im not sure if the original poster has said the engine light is on or not, if not, its a matter of dollars and a process of elimination to find the issue.