Engine Problems of Toyota Scion Tc

On December 15, 2008 I parked my car outside of a shop in MD and within 10 minutes of returning, I saw white, electrical smoke rising from under the hood. During this time the vehicle was off. As I walked to my vehicle several witnesses and the mall security had arrived and were ready with a fire extinguisher. I opened my hood and suddenly the entire engine burned in flames and almost burned several people including myself. This incident did not burn the vehicle but only the engine and it was reported to Toyota/scion within 30 minutes of the fire. Toyota did very little to investigate the cause of the fire and over 20 days later, while my vehicle is under warranty, sent me a letter saying "the cause of the fire was not from a manufacture defect". They did not give a reason for the cause of the fire and has not done anything else about it. Also, the vehicle was 100% Toyota stock with all wiring, electrical, and even the brake pads were original.

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The manual transmission Toyota Scion Tc has a violent cold start jerking and bucking at a slow speed when it is started until the engine is warm. The dealership has tried to replace sensors and it continues to do the same thing. Toyota claims it is operating as designed as there are no computer "fault codes" displayed. Others have driven it and claimed that it is not normal, but Toyota refuses to do anything about it - "it is operating as designed. " many dealers have looked at it and have not been able to fix it, although they agree that the manual transmission vehicle is not as popular as the automatic and few people pursue the problem. Autoweek magazine wrote about the problem in the September 19, 2005 issue and the official response from scion was that there was no problem with the vehicle although it would buck and jerk for them as well.

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