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2008 Toyota HIGHLANDER Engine Problems, Complaints and Defects

Issue ID	1653779
Internal NHTSA #	11319173
Manufacurer	Toyota Motor Corporation
Brand	TOYOTA
Model	HIGHLANDER
Model Year	2008
File date	02/03/20
Component	ENGINE
Product type code	VEHICLE
Description of the problem	The rubber oil cooler line (part number: 040004-29131) of our 2008 toyota highlander burst at 139,000 miles causing an oil spill and complete and irreversible engine failure due to oil starvation while vehicle was in high-speed motion in a congested highway during icy-and foggy conditions. Driver managed to remove the vehicle from the road, not causing any accidents, just before the engine irreversibly broke and shut down. Two days prior the incident, oil-change scheduled service was performed by a toyota-certified dealership showing no signs of engine/engine oil-cooling line abnormalities. Defective software displayed warnings on the dashboard of low engine oil/pressure seconds before the engine shut down. This defective part has been specifically acknowledged in the toyota's 2014 "warranty enhancement program, ze2" for repairs at no cost until january 31, 2016 or past that date for "10 years from the date of first use or 150,000 miles, whichever occurs first." toyota claims they mailed a letter for "several months" after "late july 2014" for ze2 to owners but the owner of this vehicle neither ever received such letter nor was notified by toyota corp./dealership. Vehicle has been under consistent, scheduled, and regular car services since its original and sole purchase in 2008. This should have been a recall to the nhtsa upon unreasonably dangerous design for using rubber pressurized pipes in v6 engines instead of metal-based materials, defective part awareness, incident history, and the extent of the high hazard risk that involves this part failure: oil spill (not oil leaking as stated in ze2) can occur at high resulting in a non-opportunity to prevent vehicle loss and high probabilities of crash, injuries, fire, and/or fatalities. This is also exacerbated by the embedded defective software in terms of poor timing to display engine failure.
Vehicle Mileage at Failure	139000
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Source of the issue	NHTSA WEB SITE
City and State	ARVADA, CO
VIN pattern	JTEES42A082XXXXXX
Was vehicle invloved in a crash?	N
Was vehicle involved in a fire?	N
Was incedent reported to police?	N
Was medical attention required?	N
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Date of purchase	07/08/26
Was original owner?	N
Anti-lock brakes	N
Cruise control	N
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Vehicle speed	70
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What is Recall?
A recall is when a product is removed from the market or a correction is made to the product because it is either defective or potentially harmful.
What is Failure?
Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success. Product failure ranges from failure to sell the product to fracture of the product, in the worst cases leading to personal injury, the province of forensic engineering.
What is Defect?
Non-conformance of a car component with the specified requirements, or non-fulfillment of user expectations, including the safety aspects.

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2008 Toyota HIGHLANDER Engine Problems, Complaints and Defects, Recalls and Failures

2008 Toyota HIGHLANDER Engine Problems, Complaints and Defects

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