Actually there's a class action suit about the Ford 3v v8 incredible self ejecting spark plugs.
The car industry is so fickle about what they will and will not warranty, they begrudgingly accepted covering most new vehicles for years and eventually started adding longer coverage for trucks.
Toyota and others cover some items without a recall as a "courtesy program",this is how we got a new dash for our van. But Toyota didn't cover the bad headgaskets in the 7MGE/GTE motors they sold 1986-92, but did cover the headgaskets for one of their V6 motors of the same era, the cars with the 7M motors were the top of the Toyota line pre Lexus. Somebody somewhere is crunching the numbers deciding what short cut to take in manufacturing to boost profits that year and trying to guess at the implications for future liability.
For the OP price what you will pay according to the worst repair case scenario.
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