Tundra Tailgate problem
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Tundra Tailgate problem
Have you guys heard of this problem. http://www.tundrasolutions.com/forum...res-i-am-club/
I'll admit I was a little jealous of the Tundra with all its power and beefy looks but man I am glad I didn't buy one. I feel like I bought the toughest truck out there. It goes to show that Ford knows what they are doing and you can't just throw a big truck together and say your changing the market with it.
I'll admit I was a little jealous of the Tundra with all its power and beefy looks but man I am glad I didn't buy one. I feel like I bought the toughest truck out there. It goes to show that Ford knows what they are doing and you can't just throw a big truck together and say your changing the market with it.
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Yea I have to agree.Anyone selling small utility trailers needs to look into the Toyota truck forems,Lots of new customer's in there!!!!All those tough commercials and they can't even haul a fourwheeler.
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Originally Posted by mbogosia
Have you guys heard of this problem. http://www.tundrasolutions.com/forums/tundra/115701-tundra-tailgate-failures-i-am-club/
I'll admit I was a little jealous of the Tundra with all its power and beefy looks but man I am glad I didn't buy one. I feel like I bought the toughest truck out there. It goes to show that Ford knows what they are doing and you can't just throw a big truck together and say your changing the market with it.
I'll admit I was a little jealous of the Tundra with all its power and beefy looks but man I am glad I didn't buy one. I feel like I bought the toughest truck out there. It goes to show that Ford knows what they are doing and you can't just throw a big truck together and say your changing the market with it.
That Frame is a joke...along with the abundance of cheap, feeling/looking plastic on the inside. Grab one of their inside door handles...feels like hollow plastic that will snap off at any moment! Nice dash gauge cluster...cheap plastic.
After a test drive over some local RRX it showed how wimpy that (wanna-be truck) really is.
However, I'm sure it's great to go rent a DVD or get Milk and Eggs with
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LOL....It never ceases to amaze me as to why people continue to buy these foriegn vehicles. Toyota is so proud of their power that is supposedly so much better that the other manufacturers, but when I buy a truck I want something that going to actually work and I could care less that it will do 0-60 in certain amount of time. The tow rating of the ford is still superior to the Toyotas.
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First off, let me say I'm not a Toyota fan. (Actually, I'm an ex-FoMoCo engineer). But I remember back in the mid-1970s when everyone was laughing at the Toyota Corrollas and Honda Civics. And chuckling that they weren't real cars. Anyone care to guess where that has led today?
This is Toyota's second attempt at a full size truck, and it's a major improvement over the first. It's still short of the mark, but my guess is the next generation will continue to get better, and I believe that Toyota is in the full size truck business to stay, as long as there's a possibility they can make over $10,000 per vehicle. That's just too big of an opportunity to ignore.
Like I say, I'm not a Toyota fan, but they're coming into view in the rearview mirror. Let's hope Ford sees them coming and continue to stay a step ahead. BTW, my brother just bought a new Tundra about two weeks after I bought my Lariat. It will be interesting to compare notes over the next few years.
Dale
This is Toyota's second attempt at a full size truck, and it's a major improvement over the first. It's still short of the mark, but my guess is the next generation will continue to get better, and I believe that Toyota is in the full size truck business to stay, as long as there's a possibility they can make over $10,000 per vehicle. That's just too big of an opportunity to ignore.
Like I say, I'm not a Toyota fan, but they're coming into view in the rearview mirror. Let's hope Ford sees them coming and continue to stay a step ahead. BTW, my brother just bought a new Tundra about two weeks after I bought my Lariat. It will be interesting to compare notes over the next few years.
Dale
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That's about right......
I thought the new Tundra's were going to be something, but looks like they've still got some work to do.......
Bed vibration, tail gate peeling apart, cheezy open C channel rear frame......
The only Tundra I'd consider would be the one w/ every upgraded option, 5.7, 10.5" ring gear w/4.30 gears, crew cab, 4x4, then it'd be compairable to most of the new F150s, but with a bigger price tag and more problems.
I thought the new Tundra's were going to be something, but looks like they've still got some work to do.......
Bed vibration, tail gate peeling apart, cheezy open C channel rear frame......
The only Tundra I'd consider would be the one w/ every upgraded option, 5.7, 10.5" ring gear w/4.30 gears, crew cab, 4x4, then it'd be compairable to most of the new F150s, but with a bigger price tag and more problems.
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Originally Posted by Aberdale Farm
Like I say, I'm not a Toyota fan, but they're coming into view in the rearview mirror. Let's hope Ford sees them coming and continue to stay a step ahead. BTW, my brother just bought a new Tundra about two weeks after I bought my Lariat. It will be interesting to compare notes over the next few years.
Dale
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I can sit on my tailgate.
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Originally Posted by ketchup
Well I guess toyota got wind of this post, and had the link killed! How dare anyone say anything negative about toyota, being designed by superior short people and all.
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a few months after I got my new to me 04 screw my friend got a new tundra right off the showroom floor. I have to admit I was little ticked because I had the newest truck most bad *** truck amongst my friends and he went and tried to one up me. Now he has less than 3000 miles on it and he already had to completely replace the transmission under warranty. They took a new one out of a truck that was on the lot. They supposedly sent the broken one back to wherever to get analyzed. Im not wishing anything else go wrong with my friends truck but I did catch myself smiling
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c'mon guys...lets not bash the mighty Tundra too much. the rabid Tundra fans that raom this site will vailiantly come to it's defense shortly...I'm actually quite surprised they haven't caught the scent of this thread yet.
On paper, the Tundra is a great truck. it just didn't translate from paper to reality very well. my biggest beef is the 6 speed transmission and 4.30 gears
what use is 6 gears when the 1st 2 gears are granny gears? then you put 4.30 gears on top of that. the motor is already putting out 380ish ponies. that is more than enough giddy-up for most people. that 6 speed should have been geared for MPG. think of how that would have driven the industry to follow suit. I'd love to see a full size 1/2 or 3/4 ton get 20 mpg consitently
edit: oh yeah, nobody has mentioned lately that the thing is just butt ugly
On paper, the Tundra is a great truck. it just didn't translate from paper to reality very well. my biggest beef is the 6 speed transmission and 4.30 gears
what use is 6 gears when the 1st 2 gears are granny gears? then you put 4.30 gears on top of that. the motor is already putting out 380ish ponies. that is more than enough giddy-up for most people. that 6 speed should have been geared for MPG. think of how that would have driven the industry to follow suit. I'd love to see a full size 1/2 or 3/4 ton get 20 mpg consitently
edit: oh yeah, nobody has mentioned lately that the thing is just butt ugly