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To those searching for more on the Toyota engine oil sludge or gel matter, please see the following links:

http://www.toyotaoilgel.com
http://www.petitiononline.com/TMC2003/petition.html
http://www.uc2.blogspot.com
http://www.autosafety.org

Follow “toyotasludge” on Twitter.com
Watch the Toyota Sludge video on YouTube.com at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs7WI2s-CVw

If you have blue/white smoke from the exhaust, especially on start up; check engine light on; excess oil consumption or sudden disappearance of engine oil; failed emissions control components such as the oxygen sensor or catalytic converter; a thrown engine piston rod; or complete engine failure, then be on alert!

Notify Toyota via CERTIFED letter with return receipt requested about your problem and ask for full repair coverage under Toyota’s Customer Support Program for Engine Oil Gelation.

Speak up loudly online if Toyota refuses to honor this program or continues to blame you in the wake of proper vehicle maintenance.

If Toyota is totally unresponsive in the wake of a failed engine due to engine oil sludge build up, consider going to the following web sites to voice your concern:

http://www.ConsumerAffairs.com
http://www.RipOffReport.com

Regardless of the Toyota response, be sure to file online vehicle owner complaints at:

http://www.autosafety.org The Center for Auto Safety
http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/ivoq/ The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Just to make it clear, the Toyota engine oil sludge problem…the one that has attracted so many defamers to follow me around the internet…is STILL a problem. There are many later model Toyota models showing signs of the same problem. What is worse, Toyota owners are reporting continued deception at Toyota and Toyota dealerships. Far too many Toyota owners are being told they do not qualify for the CSP repair cost coverage for one reason or another. Still other Toyota model owners who have sludged engines are being asked to pay thousands in repair costs despite proper vehicle maintenance.

This is wrong!

Toyota Owners Unite for Resolution

Charlene Blake
cblake@erols.com
charleneblake@cox.net  

Sounds like Toyota just doesn't want to take up responsability for there engine failures....kinda puts the whole "quality" look in perspective doesn't it.  
Life.....It's not about how hard you can hit but how hard you can get hit and keep pushing forward, how much you can take and keep pushing forward! - Rocky Balboa

what about the sludge problems with the 2.7 chrysler....  


i have seen a few engines... that some oil change place has sold the customer an oil treatment.. it left sludge inside the engine... a quarter inch thick...   that would not come off...    it blocked the oil pump pickup screen...  it blocked the oil drain back holes in  the heads...  

i worked in an engine rebuilding shop...   what ever that stuff was...  the quarter inch coating... would not wash off..   we used the  hot caustic soda in the jet wash tank..  we tried soaking them in gasoline..  with some acetone we had around..  naptha..  nothing would remove it...  we threw everything with those motors away...  the valve covers the oil pan.. both heads.. the blocks the cranks... everything..  

i my self have gotten batches of oil that turned to jelly..  i don't know why...

but on the cars with motors that are known to have sludge problems...

i recommend full synthetic oils... mobil one.. with mobil one filters to match...     do to the additional cost.. i usually.. change the filter every 3000 miles.. and top off the oil... then do the whole oil change every other filter,  but this is what i do with my personal stuff and a few close friends cars...

i really wonder ... if the pcv flow is enough to remove the moisture from the motor ....  reduced pcv flow has been blamed for it on other engines..