Been in my F150 for 10 years, and only have 80k miles thanks to working from home a lot, and COVID (well.. not thanks) - but she's leaking oil, waters gets stuck in the doors every time it rains, it's on it's 3rd transmission and that's already starting to fail. Scary moments driving 2 weeks ago at 75mph and it just randomly slips out of gear and RPMs go way high while the truck slows down, and then it jerks back in when it downshifts. I just don't know if I can trust the Ford badge after all this.
So... been doing lots of research and want o move to Tundra. It seems that Toyota has stated the hybrid engine isn't affected, but this is legal-speak. The NHTSA doesn't require Toyota to state that since the computer will just switch to the electric motor if the bearings seize, which means it doesn't cause a loss of control like the gas only engine does.
In a model year 2026, what's the risk for this problem to still be present but swept under the rug?
2 months or so ago, I went and found a GI doc to get a colonoscopy. Even though I'm 42, I wanted to get it done since my grandfather died of colon cancer. I brought her my labs from the past few years since I have always had high ALT. She ran a hepatitis panel and I came back with high GGT, high CRP, and most importantly, a smooth muscle antibody of 1:160. This indicates autoimmune hepatitis, but that's only confirmed via biopsy. So that was done April 15, results just came back and they say:
Anybody else here diagnosed via biopsy? I meet with my GI in about 10 days, so will discuss with a professional, but curious what you all think of this data. Time to start the research on fighting this!