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I bought my 95 4runner about a month ago and aways smelt a burning rubber smell. Not know much about cars I ignored it until today I realized the white smoke coming form the gasket region. Does the smoke indicate its blown or cracked? What should I do, as in where should I take it or should I even bother with Toyota? Also my rear anti-lock break turns on and off, any others with that problem?
"I love what you do for me Toyota" what a great slogan that was with that nice catchy jingle. "I love what they did to me" should be what it says.
My nice 4runner I bought in Febuary is now my nice dead 4runner in September. 135,600 and now sitting like a duck in a puddle of antifreeze. My first foreign car and my last. Toyota has made me realize why I am american. You can keep the japanese crap cars that come over on the boats. People on this page are right, Toyotas will go 150k maybe more. But ask an owner if they took out a second mortgage to pay for the repairs on the way.
Maybe someday 300 thousand miles away in a far off land, the pieces of crap that run Toyota will come and pay off the rest of the payments on my nice green 1995 planter that sits on front of my house. Hey, maybe they'll loan me the $1,200 dollars to fix my indestructible Toyota.
Back to the big three! God bless America! Hell can bless Toyota!
95 Toyota 4Runner that is upkept and very well maintained just blew head gasket, $3000 in repair cost plus 3 weeks w/o vehicle. Toyota dealers should be held liable for this. Unbelievable! Never thought this would happen to me.
Got a '94 Forunner with 115000 miles on it. Car was working great, but when I parked it, I heard a sizzling noise and looked under the car to see a stream of antifreeze leaking from the seams (joints) of the engine.
Hummm I'm guessing... head gasket?
If I'm right please let me know? Or is it something else?
Jarigden@yahoo.com.
My mother has a '95 4Runner. 130k, and treated with the utmost care. It started acting like the tranny was slipping, and loss of power. Oil pressure dropped, and it started smelling hot. Took it in.. Head gasket. 1,400 - 2,400 to fix it. So what you guys are saying here is, that even though they fix it, the head gasket could go again?
95 4runner looks aw-some, but head gasket blew, looks like
mo ca in radiator. Hoping that Toyota have a recall for all 3.0L V6 motor. Repairs cost big $$$$ will probably park till this issue is taken care of. Mine says production date 01/95.
I love them! Its my everything vehicle. If any updates on 1995 4runner case please anyone email me jbl6015@yahoo.com thank.
My 95 4runner just blew a head gasket and is in the shop now. 162k. They will tell me tomorrow if the damage is worse or not (as in cracked head, ect) but it did not overheat. The cost is going to be about 1200. These folks do good work and have a great rep. But there is a chance it can blow again? Dang I aint rich and need a car.
I called toyota and they said mine was not under the recall either. I don't understand, same generation 4runners with same motor, ect, and same problems...duh!
I really hate this, I loved toyota and loved my 4runner.
Another one bites the dust...for the last time. I bought my 1995 Toyota 4Runner used in 1998. In 2000 the head gasket blew the first time. I remember it overheating and it died on me on the freeway home. Don't remember how much we paid for it, but it was not cheap.
Then in 2003 while my husband was on vacation it blew again. : (
Husband had it repaired, again paid lots of money and he had a working car again.
This summer the head gasket blew again, overheated and coolant boiling and steaming everywhere. We are not repairing it again.
So sad, I loved that car.
Add one more 95 4runner to the list. how come no pickups seem to have this problem? more importantly, how come I didn't come across this page 1 yr ago when I was doing research? let's get the word out and make sure everyone knows. thanks.
Well I just picked up a 90 V6 4Runner, it was a tread with another car, but it's missing the muffler, it leaks transmission fluid, blew the fan and broke the radiator, it leaks break fluid and won't start until it feels like it. The AC doesn't work either and the front end sounds like it's falling apart. Any feedback would be appreciated as I don't want to start spending money to fix it and then have the motor blow up. It's got 100K miles on her.
Like so many others, I wish I had known about the head gasket problem last August when I bought my 95 Limited.
It had 125,000 miles at the time. This week, with 152,000 miles, the head gasket blew. Just got it out of the shop yesterday - $1,800 later.
Here's hoping I can get at least a year out of the new gasket.
Does anyone know if the problem has been fixed in any of the newer models? I really like my 4runner and would like to get another one after this, but am obviously leery now.
My '95 4Runner just blew the head gasket at 140k miles; now I still owe money on this peice of crap, so I got to make payments on a truck I cannot afford to fix.
Add me to the list..95 4runner. Thing is I knew about this issue when I bought the car. I called the dealership and asked about my specific VIN and they said it was not part of the recall and the issue had been fixed. OK, I feel stupid now, but at least I got 170,000 out of it and it still runs.
Mine just went out with 140 k. no warning, just white smoke.
Unfortunately you can add me to this long list, as well. My '95 4Runner ran strong until the head gasket failed at 127K. I had hopes of driving this vehicle a few more years since there's nothing really out there I like better. The only thing my pampered ride needed over the years was gas, oil, tires, new radiator and the regularly scheduled replacement of the timing belt(replaced H20 pump and other belts just precautionary at that time). This shows the durability of these vehicles and the weakness in the design of the head gasket. I thought I had a good car until I saw so many other people had been struck down by their Toyota 4Runner's Achilles' heel. Toyota should have extended and widened their recall after they realized changing the material of the head gasket (as my dealer told me they did in the my '95) did not work to cure their design flaw.