I’m more skeptical on this. If I were betting on a future outcome, I would bet on an expanding recall. Here’s why:
I‘d have to trust that Toyota is being 100% transparent with the root cause. Over the last 1.5 years, the “reasons” for the failure changed over time to the current engine debris story. I heard bad batch, one bad employee at one plant not cleaning properly, and now it’s widespread bad cleaning.
I’m skeptical that the “bad process” may be the best “worst problem” because it may be hiding a much worse problem, a bad design.
If Toyota announced a recall through 24 production, they would kill their current sales. That seems like incentive enough to me to recall up the the prior years trucks and stay “silent” on current year trucks. I haven’t seen anything from Toyota saying the problem has been completely solved going forward, not that i see everything. If they were fully confident they had, I think they would be shouting it from rooftops.
I’m not certain we’ll ever know, and I’m sure Toyota will correct the problem, but there’s the trust issue, so I won‘t be in the market for another Tundra anytime soon.