While my car has not blown …
While my car has not blown (knock on wood) i have dropped my oil pan to check out the rtv issue. I did it through an independent shop instead of Toyota because they wanted to charge an arm and leg if “no excessive rtv was seen” however Toyota would not allow me to see the teardown which meant they can easily lie about it. The independent shop allowed me to be there and view the entire teardown of the oil pan, once off the RTV around the oil pan was extremely excessive and sloppy. I could not believe the amount of RTV used! It was over layered everywhere causing it to break in pieces and get sucked up the pick up tube. I did take pictures of the pick up tube and did find a significant amount of RTV chunks. A bit more and it wouldve been completely clogged not allowing necessary oil causing starvation.