Toyota rant

So a friend of mine from work asked me if I could change the brake pads on his 1992 Toyota Paseo. Ok so I jacked up the right side and it literally took me longer jack up the car and get the wheel off than it did to change the pads. Put the wheel back on and let the car off the jack. Jacked up the driver side, took the wheel off and the caliper pins are rounded off (driver side brakes are metal to metal) so I tell my friend I couldn’t do it there at work and I needed it in my driveway. This was Thursday. Saturday after work I towed his car to my house on my dolly and we started working on it again. I used my impact and took the whole caliper mounting bracket and all off.... but to do this I also had to take the strut out. We got the pads changed (but lost one of the anti rattle clips) and spent an hour fighting with the caliper mount to get the bolts threaded into it. Spin the rotor and it feels fine. Put the wheel on and he backs it out of my driveway and goes to leave but the car is working way to hard to move, pull it back in the drive way and jack it back up and the wheel won’t turn. Pull the wheel off and look at the thing and we’ll its missing an anti rattle clip, this is a misleading name because these are not anti rattle clips but clips that hold the pads is place. Go to autozone because there were no new clips in the brake pad box and order the clips.

Today: It’s snowing but I want this car out of my driveway. got the clips, installed the clipsinstalled the clips but now the pads won’t fit in the caliper, to long by a micron.... spend 30 min filing the edge of the pad down and it fits. Installed the caliper (no fight this time because we figured it out yesterday) and the wheel is still bound.... ok so because I didn’t take out the guid pins I didn’t recently the caliper on the guide pins... this has to to be the problem..... pulled the caliper back off... took it completely off the car and set it on my work bench. Grabbed my easy outs but my set does not have a 12mm. So I grab the caliper and go to Napa because sometimes they can fix things like this.

They couldn’t get the guide pins out either, the caliper is frozen on the pins and won’t slide.... but they pointed out that even if I got the pins out I would still have to clean it up and hone the inside of the hole and put new rubbers over the pins.....

Ordered a bracketed caliper that is going to come fully assembled, all I have to do is put in the pads, install it on the car, and bleed it. But because it is a Toyota Paseo, nobody has the caliper in stock and I can’t get it until Tuesday..... not even our local Toyota wrecking yard has a damn Paseo.... so what should have taken me 30 min tops has been going on for 4 hours yesterday and 3 hours today. This f*****g car has cheated me out of a victory and I hate this car. Every time I work on a foreign it makes me appreciate my Ford even more

Every time I work on a Toyota at work I end up throwing shit and yelling in front of customers. Even stupid stuff like an oil chang. It takes longer to get the dank skid plates off than so the actual service. They always have odd sized bolts for stuff.

I don't understand why they have such a big following, I've hated every one I've worked on as well, including my own.

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I don't like trying to reach the oil filter on my father-in-law s Tacoma prerunner. I did some body work on it a couple years ago and that went ok.

I like working on my Ranger. But have to admit there are some things Ford could have designed much better.

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Gotta love the Toyota/GM lets-put-the-filter-under-the-exhaust-manifold obsession and Subaru's "lets put a literal ring of exhaust tubing around the filter underneath the car" idea. It's fun for those of us that work at quick-lube shops.

I will say with Fords that their new fiber aero covers are atrocious.

swynx said:

I don't understand why they have such a big following, I've hated every one I've worked on as well, including my own.

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I checked into a Taco, never been in one, never been around one, never worked on one. But looking on forums and facebook groups... it is almost comical what people put up with.

Well..... interesting development, my 18yo son just bought the Toyota Paseo from the guy for $500

BDAB said:

Well..... interesting development, my 18yo son just bought the Toyota Paseo from the guy for $500

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That sucks

That sounds like one of those "meant to be" stories. hopefully the worst is behind you with this vehicle. at least you know the brakes wont need changed for a while. lol.

Just a thought regarding parts for the Paseo. I seem to recall reading somewhere that the Paseo is essentially a Tercel, but with some differences. Wikipedia seems to imply that some parts are interchangeable between the Tercel, Paseo, and a third car based on the same platform, called the Starlet.

BDAB said:

Well..... interesting development, my 18yo son just bought the Toyota Paseo from the guy for $500

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And you disowned him?


In general I don't mind working on newer (2010+) Toyotas. Anything from the early 90s or older I just set on fire and call it an "accident".

Try a 2004 Nissan Maxima. extremely fun car to drive, comfortable, looked decent. try changing the belts on it, or anything that deals with the suspension. the only things that were easy to change out on this car was the battery and the upper radiator mounts. everything else was like mastering the fine art of pissing up a rope.

AJ

Hmm, by the sounds of it I'm glad I let my Toyota dealer do the maintenance stuff on my 08 Tundra LOL.

BDAB said:

Well..... interesting development, my 18yo son just bought the Toyota Paseo from the guy for $500

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Im just shocked there are still paseos running down the road.

rusty ol ranger said:

Im just shocked there are still paseos running down the road.

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Agreed. I never knew they were called that. I think I seen one once in my whole 29 years of living lol. I had to google the name just to know what they hell it was. Where I live there aren't any Toyotas around unless they are 2000 and newer or 90's trucks that are rusted to hell. I remember my friend in high school had a 90 tercel that someone thought they could touch up the bad paint spots with house paint. They literally rolled brown house paint on the car.

91stranger said:

Agreed. I never knew they were called that. I think I seen one once in my whole 29 years of living lol. I had to google the name just to know what they hell it was. Where I live there aren't any Toyotas around unless they are 2000 and newer or 90's trucks that are rusted to hell. I remember my friend in high school had a 90 tercel that someone thought they could touch up the bad paint spots with house paint. They literally rolled brown house paint on the car.

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All i see around here are the snobby moma in siennas and the snobby "american trucks are under me" idiots rolling in lifted tundras.