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Yesterday afternoon I experienced a total oil loss in my 2017 Tundra Limited 5.7. The truck has 2,680 miles.
Less than 60 miles ago the truck was serviced at the Toyota dealer under Toyota care.
Here is the story. The truck has been parked since the oil change a month ago. Only drove the truck home from the dealer. Took the truck out today and went roughly 50 miles. 1 mile from home, the motor started making noise. No check engine light, no oil light...nothing. So the person that was driving the truck just continued driving it the mile home. When I got home I was told to check the truck and it was making knocking noises. I went out to the driveway and started the truck and there was no noise. So I drove the truck a little distance and the knocking started. It was noticeable but not as loud as I've heard from other cars with no oil. It was definitely low end noise. The check engine light then came on...no oil light.
I parked the truck in the driveway and pulled the dipstick and there wasn't even a film of oil on the dipstick. I started looking around and there was an oil slick from where the truck had been parked earlier. I looked under the truck and everything under the engine has a slick of oil on it.
So I have a few questions:
1. Any thoughts on how the oil came out of the engine? Double gasket on the oil filter?
2. Is the motor ruined ( I hope so) since there was quite a bit of low end noise.
3. Any ideas on how to approach the dealer, in that 98% chance this was a mistake that they made doing the oil change
4. Are any of you aware of a problem with the Tundra that caused this oil loss?
Thanks for you time reading this.
Less than 60 miles ago the truck was serviced at the Toyota dealer under Toyota care.
Here is the story. The truck has been parked since the oil change a month ago. Only drove the truck home from the dealer. Took the truck out today and went roughly 50 miles. 1 mile from home, the motor started making noise. No check engine light, no oil light...nothing. So the person that was driving the truck just continued driving it the mile home. When I got home I was told to check the truck and it was making knocking noises. I went out to the driveway and started the truck and there was no noise. So I drove the truck a little distance and the knocking started. It was noticeable but not as loud as I've heard from other cars with no oil. It was definitely low end noise. The check engine light then came on...no oil light.
I parked the truck in the driveway and pulled the dipstick and there wasn't even a film of oil on the dipstick. I started looking around and there was an oil slick from where the truck had been parked earlier. I looked under the truck and everything under the engine has a slick of oil on it.
So I have a few questions:
1. Any thoughts on how the oil came out of the engine? Double gasket on the oil filter?
2. Is the motor ruined ( I hope so) since there was quite a bit of low end noise.
3. Any ideas on how to approach the dealer, in that 98% chance this was a mistake that they made doing the oil change
4. Are any of you aware of a problem with the Tundra that caused this oil loss?
Thanks for you time reading this.