What problems did you encounter within the Gen 3? Just curious to keep an eye out till I sell mine. Fortunately for me, it’s semi custom and there is a market for my type of set up to sell private for a decent price. At least this way I won’t loose out like I would if I traded it in.
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OK, the laundry list:
1. The aforementioned transmission failure, which happened twice on my first road trip to Wyoming. It's a known item where it will not get out of gear unless a pretty stout pull/push is delivered to the stick. Someone lacking physical strength (ie elderly, etc.) is absolutely going to be pulling over to the side of the road.
2. The air conditioning never worked properly on the highway. It only completely failed once (on the same trip in WY). It could never be diagnosed properly at my dealership (city location), my assumption (engineer) is that there was a sensor calibration issue.
3. Parking sensor failure. The entire rear bumper had to be removed for its replacement and the first fix was not successful so it had to be repaired (under warranty) twice.
4. Rear leaf springs flattened out. Another known issue with these trucks (leftover from the Gen 2 I believe). I likely contributed to the failure by taking it elk hunting last year but I'm chalking this one up to the anemic payload of this "truck". Do the math, by taking a hunting partner and adding a topper to the back you've already used up well over half the payload. Warning on the Tundra: it's got the lowest payload of any of the full sized trucks I looked at.
5. Manual shift knob broke.
6. The sunroof would no longer close normally this spring/summer. An engineering work-around was able to make it close.
7. The head unit would not play nice with an upgraded stereo. Lots of check engine lights to be cleared.
I sold the truck with 58,000 miles on it.
Yeah, the Tundra is still probably still pretty solid (mine was) but I'm not drinking the kool-aid anymore.