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Well I had another casualty due to our lovely -56C weather. I went to start my truck this past Saturday, although it didn't like it much, it started no problem. As soon as it fired the check engine light came on. I tried a hard reset but the light came on again, so I went to our local garage (no Toyota Service Dept here in no mans land...lol) where he hooked up a code reader. It spit out the code for power steering pressure switch overpressure. We tried to reset the code but it is apparrently a hard code that can not be reset. So a phone call to the dealership I bought the truck from and voila....new switch on the way. I am definitely not complaining as I was able to drive my truck to work while those poor Chevy and Dodge owners had to walk (evil laugh). So this is another one for anybody living in the cold to watch for.

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I just had to look up where you live on google maps... man thats cold what are the summers like? Glad you were able to get the ole tundra taken care of

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is'nt that where the Ice Road Truckers drive? I have that howl at start up in the really cold mornings, everyone that responded to me said its the power steering fluid warming up. I wonder if thats related. Philadelphia does not get as cold as Churchill, Manitoba, Canada gets.

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I have seen the pumps blow up from people doing donuts in the snow. It don't get that cold down here. WOW that is cold.

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Your closer to him then i am.

Not close enough for the cold. Doesn't get any where near that cold down here. Thank God

Power steering pumps will blow up from doing donuts?

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Do you live up there all year round? What do you do for work? That's cool that they are sending you the part, will they still warranty it even if you install it rather than a Toyota tech?

In the snow i think is what he ment

First of all the summers aren't too bad (if you can stand all the bugs) we can get as warm as 30C. No we don't have any ice roads up here....plane or train are the only ways out. I didn't know that about the donuts....I did lend the truck to my daughter for the day.....hmmmmm. Toyota has been awesome about sending parts up and warrantying them even though it is not a Toyota tech installing them. They too realize that the closest dealership is roughly 800 km's away. I really wish they would let me do their cold weather testing for them.....lol