After 3 years of owning my 2007 TC, I have decided to get rid of it before I got stuck with an out of warranty lemon with expensive problems.

A list of issues I've had over the years,

1) Starting problems when cold at around 17,000 miles, went away when it got warmer.

2) Serpentine belt tensioner rattling and leaking at 25,000 miles. Toyota tech said this was a problem on the previous years Camry/TC engines, but was supposed to be fixed by now.

3) At 40,000 miles the HVAC display with clock stopped lighting up when the head lights were on, common 2007 problem. OUT OF WARRANTY.

4) NEW Serpentine belt tensioner started rattling and leaking at 47,000 miles. Toyota replaced the entire engine block because of "a sound", tensioner was replaced again and transmission flushed.

5) At 48,000 miles the belt tensioner started rattleling AGAIN! Transmission started shimmering.

I just purchased an Infinity I35. It's a much faster car (265 HP) and much more luxurious. I don't mind paying for a complete set of coil packs every 100,000 miles, it's better than having a problem engine out of warranty.

Thank you all for your help in diagnosing the various issues with my car.

 

What year is the I35?

 

sorry it didnt work out. nice choice. GL in the future.

 

btw it's spelled infiniti.

 

should of got the G35

 

Same problem on two differant motors 3 differant times.......buy a lottery ticket.....cause the odds on that are up there.

 

Nothing like owning a car and can't spell the name of it......must be nice.

Glad you got out of that tC, there are bound to be a few bad apples out there.

I've had my tC for 40000 and the only thing its been to the shop for other than 2 oil changes, i've done the rest myself and other maintenance, is for a CEL I threw when I was learning how to stick a stick shift and doing a lot of jerking.

 

this makes me feel good about my tc. its also a 2007 and only 22k miles on it and no problems so far "knock on wood"

 

i hope this thread doesnt scare other people thinknig about buying a tc cause i know some people that had them for like 2-3 years also and havent had any problems but depends on your maintance and taking care of stuff and other factors...no car is perfect.....
could of been bad manufacturing of the engine to begin with sounds weird but i its true.....if you have 10 people buy the same tc with the same engine and 2 out of the 10 had faulty engine part or had it installed incorrectly would run into problems..........it happens

 

2005 tC with 71k+ and zero engine problems.

 

66k only needed wheel bearings so far

 

Well since its an I35 it would be between MY01-MY04. It has 255HP, FWD, and only comes in AUTO. It also uses the VQ35DE motor.

 

g/l with the I35

 

Only problem I have had in my car is Trucks crashing into it
*sigh* I hate my friends sometimes

 

No, no...'07 tC with 135,00 miles with only ONE single problem during warranty: Light went out on the gearbox. Never fixed. I like it burned out. Gives me sort of a luxury of owning a manual.

Then getting in accident @120k. Whole different story. More rattles & low revving are occuring. Overall, still tries to run like a champ.

 

06 tC - 55k miles...

Never had any Engine or any problems.

 

Ever think of Lemon laws?

only problem i've had with my tc is when it spiked boost and blew and that was my fault.

 

damn man, what do you do so you put that many miles on the car or are you that much in love with it that you drive it everywhere lol

 

05 with 83,500 no engine problems at all!

 

don't u mean damn girl?