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June 2016, bought a brand new Tundra TRD Pro. September 2016, every light in the dash comes on. Took truck to local Toyota Dealership to get it figured out as it’s obviously something electrical.

Dealership calls me back 2 hours later and tells me I fried my wiring by installing a light bar (the light bar was not wired in. I had only bolted it to my grill and was going to have a mechanic wire it in for me). Dealership tells me I need to cough up $5k for a whole new wiring harness and a bunch of other stuff. I tell them to park my truck outside, I’m not paying that until I have someone else look at it. Went and picked it up.

Took it to another Toyota Dealership after a private mechanic told me the dealership was scamming me because the wiring harness was completely fine. New toyota dealership tells me that they can’t do the warranty check on it because the previous toyota dealership closed out the claim and put notes in the file that I had broke the wiring myself and was attempting to get warranty work done. Once a claim is closed out, it’s REALLY hard to get that same claim re-opened. Thankfully, the new dealership had it out for the old dealership. They tore the truck down on their own dime and found the issue - it was a broken clip on a wire connection. A $20 part. And it took them 2 full days of dissecting the wiring to figure this out. So it was VERY clear the first dealership was trying to rip me off and then got vendictive when I told them to park my truck.

Bottom line was Toyota caught the dealership red handed in trying to scam me - they got fined and in a BUNCH of trouble - Toyota added on a very extended platinum warranty that will transfer to a new owner if I sell the truck as an apology. The service manager at the new Toyota dealership was so happy that my truck helped him get revenge on the other dealership he would always get me the best rental cars when I’d take my truck in for service. (oh yeah free service for 6 years too).

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