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i wouldnt deal with road and track again
sorry ..i wouldnt deal with them again after ignoring to my emails. i have got new engine swapped done by them but still gen3 still runs rough at cold start. I have emailed them many times and no answer. so i;ve given up on them as they want nothing to do with it. Ive paid $5500 for this new engine and still not happy with it.
(Sigh)
1992 mr2 with 1995 gen na motor and LSD gearbox
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Re: i wouldnt deal with road and track again
2013/09/29 08:53:14
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What's your car doing at cold start?
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Re: i wouldnt deal with road and track again
2013/09/29 23:40:03
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Have you tried calling them? Email is not their strongest form of communication.
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Re: i wouldnt deal with road and track again
2013/09/30 09:41:19
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I'd definitely suggest giving them a call. I know they get heaps of emails coming through and phone will be the best form of contact. I've had no issues with Road and Track in the past and found Terry really helpful.
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Re: i wouldnt deal with road and track again
2013/09/30 12:34:31
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If i remember correctly, they have stated somewhere that they don't always respond to emails as they get hundreds of emails every day.
Best to call if its urgent!
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Re: i wouldnt deal with road and track again
2013/10/04 09:38:27
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They know I cant talk over the phone due to my deafness. They accepted emails instead. They have responded and updated me of what they're doing to my car at the time via emails. Since I got my car back ..... They stopped emailing me since even I've explained what happened to the cold start. They said its not a part of 3 mths warranty.
Anyway Ive decided to go back to Sydney and hopefully see BD4's in Gladesville and do some work there and possibly get radiator replaced. I hope BD4's still up and running ??
i have gen 3 3sge engine swapped from gen2 3sge .
Cold start is weird , sometimes it wants to stay at 1000rpm then other times it stays at 500rpm. I might try and video it and show you guys and let me know whats the problem with it
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Re: i wouldnt deal with road and track again
2013/10/04 10:15:08
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BD4's closed down a while ago, but Brell has opened another workshop "Boss Tuning" nearby if you must use him
There are a few things it could be due to, is it fine once it warms up? If so could be ISCV (or sensor), cold start injector etc, checked for any error codes?
Good luck getting it all sorted
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Re: i wouldnt deal with road and track again
2013/10/04 10:37:25
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hotmr2
They know I cant talk over the phone due to my deafness. They accepted emails instead. They have responded and updated me of what they're doing to my car at the time via emails. Since I got my car back ..... They stopped emailing me since even I've explained what happened to the cold start. They said its not a part of 3 mths warranty.
So, obviously not being able to 'call and have a chat' - they communicated well before work done via email? Did you get it back and notice it wasn't right straight away? I can hear ok I guess, can only start to appreciate what it may be like to try and sense how a motor is running by vibration and gauges alone. It would be most unfortunate for a forum sponsor to not stand by the workmanship of his shop. Sure it will be sorted out and reputations shall prove true. I guess thats why Terry and R&T sponsor here - they stand by their work.
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Re: i wouldnt deal with road and track again
2013/10/04 10:44:22
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Good luck getting it sorted. You can also try Rev Doctor in Hornsby. BD4's is actually still around, but not in the same way that they were before. Brell started Boss & has done work for a few of the guys here.
I didn't have the best experiences with Paul (he may have changed). I would recommend Rev Doctor though, quite detailed/thorough with his analysis.
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Re: i wouldnt deal with road and track again
2013/10/04 11:07:58
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Re: i wouldnt deal with road and track again
2013/10/31 16:28:37
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Well well well ............... the car decided to break down on me today :/ . it wouldnt start ... and i had to tow it to local toyota. They have found a problem to ECU thats faulty .... this is just great! and the part will be $2500 from Japan !!! :(
My rego is due in 3 wks time. So Tmw i will speak to toyota in person and explain further re the engine and ecu being replaced few mths ago .
At first I thought it was the immobolizer . Toyota has tested it with their computer and come up with ECU being faulty ???!!!..........
Do any of you have gen3 ECU for sale ?
ffs
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Re: i wouldnt deal with road and track again
2013/10/31 17:53:25
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Turbo or NA ECU?
If it was recently replaced, surely there's some warranty somwhere? Unless you replaced it with a 2nd hand unit...
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Re: i wouldnt deal with road and track again
2013/10/31 20:09:13
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hotmr2
Well well well ............... the car decided to break down on me today :/ . it wouldnt start ... and i had to tow it to local toyota. They have found a problem to ECU thats faulty .... this is just great! and the part will be $2500 from Japan !!! :(
My rego is due in 3 wks time. So Tmw i will speak to toyota in person and explain further re the engine and ecu being replaced few mths ago .
At first I thought it was the immobolizer . Toyota has tested it with their computer and come up with ECU being faulty ???!!!..........
Do any of you have gen3 ECU for sale ?
ffs
Are you sure its the ECU and not just the ignitor module that's gone? Might be worth getting it double checked by Logicar or someone reputable. I had a lot of people say my ECU was gone when having issues but turned out to be perfect, was the ignitor module causing my issues. What I found out through a lot of places is that the ECU's rarely go. Getting it bench tested might be useful, they can even repair ECU's if need be.
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Re: i wouldnt deal with road and track again
2013/10/31 20:16:35
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well its na ECU .
I have spoken to terry about this and he said he will have a look at his stack of ECU but need the model number of it .
Track-mr2 , thats what i thought , it was weird for the ECU . But im seeing toyota tmw to confirm and will ask them to bench test them too.
Im seriously thinking its the immobolizer issue.. cos i didnt hear a loud click before starting the car and the half dash lights (engine and the other light didnt show up when pressed the keypad code). My alarm is brant nemesis with 6 imbolizers and a key pad. I also called the brant ppl and they said it does sounds like the keypads faulty ........ (sigh)
too many opinions here i reckon .... so i will mention ignitor module to them to test.
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Re: i wouldnt deal with road and track again
2013/10/31 21:36:06
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Just a thought but we send ecus and other control modules to Injectronics for testing and repair best to check if they can do toyota stuff but they have a quick turnaround. I rarely see ecu's play up adn there is a technical bulletin about throttle position sensors causing toyota ecu's not to generate fault codes which could lead them to believe that the ecu is dead. Could also be causing your idle issues and most guys at toyota delearships probably rarely work on these cars and are under pressure not to waste to much time diagnosing faults properly. http://www.injectronics.c...echnicalBulletin19.pdf
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