Really?
Cool learn something new everyday.

Well darn, guess that won't quieten down mine then, guess that I'l have to deal with it til it gets so bad I cant stand it then replace the pump..

 

did you notice the transmission was constantly shifting...

 

Yeah, he mad no mention on how the transmission shifted and what the final drive rpms were.

 

so who wants the opinion of someone who's put over 5k miles on the new tundra?

actually i've got a list of problems that im taking it into the dealership for this week.


im bout sure i ruined something in the rear end by "trying" to do doughnuts in a parking lot. first i hard a loud slam then metal nashing everytime i'd go around a corner.. its sense stopped and doesnt make any noise so im not sure what to make of it..

the Front end has developed a noticable squeek.

the tailgate sometimes slams against the bed when i go over certain terrain due to the fact that the bed twist's

theres a bad rattle in my passenger door every time my speaker hits any bass note..

..............

the rides impressive and thats what sold me on the truck, besides the large amount of power it has..

do i want my F-150 back?

no.. my F-150 was developing a sever rough idle.. the brakes we're developing a serious pulsating sensation under braking that would sometimes cause the whole truck to bounce..

the transmission would sometimes screw up the 1st to 2nd shift and slam itself into gear.

there was a bad rattle in both driver and passenger doors from the speakers.. there was an odd rattle that started at around 40k miles that would only happen when the AC was on..

the brake dust was rediculous after any long trip i'd notice a nice new film of it on my crappy stock chrome clad 17's that would dent at the drop of a hat..


........

that said..

what i like about the Tundra is this..

whatever they advertised is actually true..

you can stop on a dime..

you can get from 0-60 in 6 second (WHICH TOYOTA NEVER BRAGGED ABOUT THAT TEST WAS CONDUCTED BY MOTOR TREND WHEN THEY COMPARED THE TUNDRA TO THE NEW 07 SILVERADO) ...

matter of fact heres the data from that comparison... here

 

On one ad they were bragging about the size of the ring gear. 5k miles and the rear is shot Doesnt sound that great to me

 

Good read

 

actually the truck goes forward and backwards just fine. im bout sure i F'd up my clutch packs or something..

but you wanna say the rear end is shot, fine. it hasn't been taken apart and looked at so i dont know.

i've always assumed that a shot rear end would make noise and be a whole lot more noticeable then simply a little bit of noise.

i think if anything i got the rear end to tight and the diff wouldnt unlock so it kept grinding every time i'd go around a corner.. because the diff was semi-locked..

like i said it the noise became gradually less and less.. untill it justed stopped..

there isnt anything indicating that my rear gear is what screwed up so..

 

Sorry should have explained myself better. Shot probably wasnt the right word, but any problems at that low miles seems pretty bad. From experience a bad rear end will not always make constant noise. Friends Dodge had a blown rear, acted up for a bit, same locking up around corners and then was fine, didnt make any noise and drove just fine till one day it just came apart and we were pulling teeth outta the fluid.

Hopefully they dont give ya any hassle fixing it under warranty.

 

thats what im hoping..

i shouldnt have been trying to do doughnuts with it to began with but..

hey i figured if my F-150 could do em without a problem then why not the Tundra..

welp thats 1 mark against the Tundra and 1 point for the F-150.

 

Hell, gotta have fun sometimes right
Only damage Ive ever had from doughnuts was to the tires

 

Yea it's definatly hard to remeber to look at everything in a 15 min test drive. I didn;t even get to take it out on teh highway and open it up, they have a preplanned route they had me use and the highest posted speed limit is 45 mph.....

Well in all honesty, no flames from here, any new truck can develop most those troubles as it breaks in.

For the rear end, I forgot to mention something on this too....
But yea they do market on the larger ring gear and even had a display with one in the show room. It was impresive to look at and they claim it helps disapate the heat. Sounded good in theory, would be a slight bit longer beofre it was exposed to friction again and each tooth would be submerged in lubrication slightly fractions of a second longer...... However, On the way home then the engineer in me kicked in. It was noticeably heavier like atleast 4 times the weight of the silverado ring gear they were comparing it too......I started thinking a bigger ring gear is a larger distance from the center. That appears to me would give the torque even more leverage to snap that gear in half or rip the clips out of place in hard turns with severe traction. Which sounds like what may have happened to yours. Then the added weight is even more rotating mass, which is harder to stop, they did eleminate some rotating mass by using aluminum with steel core rear axle shafts and drive shafts. Sometimes bigger isn't always better.

The other thing I did notice looking underneath the truck, the axle housings appeared to be stamped steel. Looked just like a bigger version of the old small Toyota axles.

 

Something sounds amiss here, mixing metal types in a shaft is a big no no. The thermal expansion coefficients for aluminum and steel are too different. The aluminum will expand at just under twice as fast as the steel. Every time the shaft gets hot it either the outside will pull away from the inside or the inside will push the outside. Neither of these is a good situation, because the outcome will always be part failure. Are you absolutely sure the shafts were made this way?

 

No I am not, I didnt get to look at them, thats just what the sales man metioned.... I hadn't even thought of that yet, good point. Hmmm

I was on the verge of information over load trying to remember everything so I could report back. That is the way he described it to me or I understood him to say anway.

 

Be something to watch over time as they see some more miles