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I'm a big believer in "everything is a wear item on a long enough timeline". You won't catch me hurring and durring and getting my panties in a bunch because somsone's gonna wear out the ball joints on their lifted truck in 80k instead of 100k. But spending 50k to have the display on your Tesla or the frame on your Toyota crap out in under a decade is unreasonable.

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I thought Toyota replaced those frames at no cost, some people even got entirely new trucks.

They replace just enough of them on a rolling basis to keep their brand reputation where they want it. 4Runner owners tend to get more shafted (shorter if any recall) than Tacoma owners.

If they wanted to fix the problem they've had 30-something years to just copy what a different OEM is doing. But why would they fix it if they're still selling trucks and SUVs hand over fist?

Stories like this regarding almost all of automotive manufacturing history makes me wonder if the only reason Tesla is being highlighted on all these issues is just because they have significantly more publicity.

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