AC pressure switch relay???

I can't confirm it for your particular model, but a lot of modern cars run electric fans for cooling the radiator, and I have seen cars with separate transmission oil coolers with their own fan, so a third fan for the A/C condenser would be no surprise to me. The way they engineer cars any more, you're lucky they aren't all controlled by one central computer chip that also controls the ignition and fuel injection - and costs $5000 :rolleyes:
 
tyr_shadowblade said:
Then, they claim that this mysterious "relay module" which they need to special order from Toyota (needed to drive a rental for 5 days)
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Five days! No. A good shop can strip, rebuild, and reinstall the engine in five days. A relay module might take a day if it's difficult to get to, but one day tops!



They told me that if I continued to drive the vehicle in 97 degree weather in heavy (gridlock) traffic, that either the engine or the transmission would surely overheat and need replacement.
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Oh, get out! 97 degrees? Maybe, just maybe, a bit of overheating. But lead to replacement of the engine and transmission? No!



I am ashamed to admit that I know very little about engines, but this sounds like BS to me.
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Well you are right. Drop that shop like a lead weight.


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If a fan is not working and an engine overheats and you don't respond to the idiot light or gauge and shut it down that can wreck an engine. That can happen in 97 degree weather or in much cooler weather than that.

I agree that five days is too long to wait, though; I would go to another shop.
 
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