QUESTION: I want to find out how I can identify if a car’s engine is interference or noninterference from a layman’s point of view; that is, some signs or writings on the vehicle. Home delivery and ...

DEAR CAR TALK: You recently wrote about a guy whose timing belt broke, and who tried to restart his car but whose valves survived only through sheer good luck. In 1957, I had a new Ford six-cylinder, ...

Q: If the timing belt breaks in an interference engine, it will self-destruct. What advantage is gained by this design that outweighs the risk of engine damage if or when the belt fails? — R. Fischer ...

ABSTRACT The exhaust blowdown pulse from each cylinder of a multi-cylinder engine propagates through the exhaust manifold and can affect the in-cylinder pressure of other cylinders which have open ...

Now that I am further away from Philly I seem to have gotten more interference from my engine (I guess the radio signal is now weaker than the interference of the engine) when listening to AM radio ...

You need to continue to hound the dealership and Toyota's customer service people, and ask for a meeting with the dealer to discuss the problem and to request a plan of action to resolve the problem.