If you look on you tube there is a Toyota tundra that pulls a new GMT 900 half ton... only problem is the yota is a fully optioned and the GMT 900 is the smallest engine offered and they didn't even engage 4x4. All the people start cheering all think in the toyota is cool...

I watched one get pulled out the other day tho. It appeared to have open front and rear ends, on the TRD model or whatever. It was funny.

 

at teh GM dealership i used to work at we used a Ford Ranger for lot work..

that old truck ran for donkey's years with minimal/NO servicing...

i always thought it funny the dealership wouldnt use a GM truck...

 

Or they just have enough common sense not to use a brand new $40k ride (which would not be considered "new" again) to plow a parking lot.

Not sure about up north there, but most of the lots around here are contracted out to private guys, and they arent always driving the same brand of the lot they are plowing.

Not trying to be argumentative, maybe just a little realistic...

 

In my town Ford has 1 or 2 Broncos set up for plowing, dodge has a 2500 for plowing and they also have a massive front end loader, haven't seen anything at the gm dealer though, honda dealer is currently under construction so won't know until next winter what they will use for parking lot clearing.

 

Up here in the glorious Flint, MI (any metropolitan lover's mecca) all i see plowing lots is whomped out K5's and old ____ p/u's. See yoter never made a truck capable of plowing a lot till current day and I use the term capable liberally. I personally doubt the Tundra has the ability to support the weight of a plow or the 4x4 traction ability to plow if it could handle el snow pusher.

In Grand Rapids its all super duties plowing... or whomped out old trucks but mainly SD's. Unfortunatley I've seen some SD's with rust problems that make any ordinary person just wonder how in the ______. Oh well salt sucks, but they're still pushin mother natures cold dump she took on us

 

Actually, they use a brand NEW Gmc, not a beater to plow but like i said, maybe its because they know of the Toyotas capabilities

 

I hardly think it has anything to do with that. I'm sure the Tundra is capable of plowing a parking lot, maybe not with a 10' steel plow, but to say it is uncapable is a blanket statement. There are so many variables when you are talking comparisons. My Polaris Sportsman will push snow, but not as much as my truck.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a die-hard Ford guy, but there are other trucks out there that are well built for their application, and I think the Tundra is one of them.

Here is a vid of a Tundra w/ a plow, a friend showed to me last week.

YouTube - 2007 2008 toyota tundra northman snowplow MEYER WESTERN

 

Toyota cannot plow blanket statement is very applicable for a stock vehicle with open front and rear ends...

YouTube - Toyota Tundra w/plow, 32" of HARD pack snow. STUCK 60 yards.

even the optional electronic limited slip aint gonna help that

 

I don't see how that video confirms that Toyota trucks are completely unable to plow snow? Looks to me like he lost momentum and traction, which will stop any vehicle (including my 1-ton). It also looks like he took on a bit more than what that truck was designed for, i didn't hear the motor bog down?. Everything in moderation, my friend.

Maybe we can just agree to disagree

 

you guys are spelling that wrong its turdra and they prob traded that gmc in on one

 

Come on... this just isn't that hard to figure out, boys.

First of all, the Toyota dealer is stupid for choosing a different brand to do work on their lot. Not a good image for obvious reasons. We can all agree on that.

Second, the decision probably came down to cost. GMC is less expensive and plows are readily available that fit the truck. Try to price out a Tundra and a plow that fits. Toyota owners aren't exactly the kind of people that buy plows. Not a big market there.

Third, if a 20 year old Blazer can plow so can a Tundra. The K5 is about as poor a choice as you could make for a plow vehicle. But not the worst.... I've seen a Jeep Liberty with a plow. That's something we call all agree is moronic!

 

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Im gonna have to be the a-hole on this one give one vote for the Toyota.

Don't get me wrong I love Ford trucks and my Superduty, but go to any truck pull, and I guarantee that the 'Yota will out pull everything out there, period. Doesn't matter if you have a big block 3/4 or 1-ton, it will be out pull it.

Our local Toyota dealership the last two years have placed a bone stock Tundra, equipped with factory Toyota TRD parts, with only a cat-back exhaust system for horsepower mods, and they have won the stock pickup class by a long shot and have placed 2nd in the modified stock class both of the last two years. They've gone up against everything out there, Chevy's, Dodge's, a couple of V10 SD's, and hell they even outpulled a built 79 F350 with a very healthy 460 and lockers front and rear. It had the horse and it didn't want to jump around like all other stock pickups do.

It makes everything out there look stupid, and until you actually see one in person do it, you won't understand. I don't want to sound like a fun hater here, but seriously, the contest wasn't even close.

Hell my best friend traded his '05 Superduty with a 6.0 in it for a new '08 Tundra, and hasn't had any second thoughts at all.

However, they are still a half-ton truck and half-ton trucks still aren't designed to plow snow, or pull two SUV's or anything like that.

So let the flaming begin cause I know I'm going to hear it on this one.

 

I saw some goof in an F-150 with a full lift of 3/4" ply in his 5.5' box, rear bumper was nearly dragging on the ground

 

I'm not going to flame you.... I just want to point out that you basically called your own bluff on this one.