Thoughts on going from Tacoma to Tundra

[WeiserBucks]

Ever wonder why Toyota has the most aftermarket support?...Because it's necessary.

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[BreechFace]

Ever wonder why Toyota has the most aftermarket support?...Because it's necessary.

Probably the same reason that Remington 700, Glock have the similar aftermarket support.

Both the above and Toyota are widely used and pushed into technical applications.

Toyota - off-road, rock crawling, over landing, expedition rigs, military

Remington 700 - PRS, Tactical, Military, hunting, target, etc

Glock - competition, tactical, military, SD

 

[IdahoBeav]

Imagine crying for decades about the leaf spring issue, lol

 

[Steve300xcw]

When a 'truck' rides on the frame rails with nothing but 3 passengers, what are you supposed to do?

go on a diet?

Drink the Toyota KoolAid and never disrespect the cult?

Get burned its hard to get over it. I get it. I've a '14 f150 5.0 with 120k on it that is hands down the biggest piece of shit I have ever owned......And I have owned a lot of $500 pickups.

 

[BreechFace]

Imagine crying for decades about the leaf spring issue, lol

For real. The amount of overloading I’ve seen done on Tacomas it doesn’t surprise me when replacement leaf packs or overload leaves are installed.

Chevy had the same reputation in the past of having light duty rear leaf springs, but they rode nice. Or how about the lame load capacity of the Ram 1500 coil spring rears.

It is what it is, my older Tacomas I replaced with Old Man Emu spring kits to gain capacity and a lift. No biggy for me.

 

[StuckInTheEast]

If you've read my posts re Toyota, you would know they disputed my assertion that the leaf springs were flat, then disallowed my reimbursement with a complete set of receipts because I didn't have the dealer diagnose it before replacement. That's the opposite of 'making things right'.
GM is balls-deep right now in 6.2l and 3.0l damage control.
Ford doesn't really have any hot issues that I can think of.

GM is balls deep in more issues than that.
Ford...well...brief list here:
* lifters/cams in the 7.3l
*3.5L cam phasers(the root cause of that debacle will make you laugh...hint...they cheaped out on springs that are about the size of bic click pen springs)
*f150s eat pinion bearings, 250/350 eat carrier bearings...guess which foreign country those started coming out of when they started becoming a common issue...starts with a "Ch" and ends with an "INA"
*6r80 lead frame failures in trans
*17+ Superduty eat ac comoressors
*5.0l oil consumption issues
*10r80 transmission CDF drum bushing walk/trans failures
*6f35 trans dropping like flies in the escape platform
There's more if I think about it....but thats all pretty big, expensive repairs.
Ford has at least typically had parts on back order or discontinued less than GM, but still can be significant delays on common service parts.

I see plenty of rusted out GM and Ford 1/2ton frames...never saw them step up and fix them for free...including any incidentsls needed due to rust for 13+years from production...say what you want about Toyota, but fact is they stand behind their products far more than any other manufacturer. Toyota has engine issues in the tundra...they recall and replace the engines.
Gm tries to bandaid the issue with different oil hoping to get them out of warranty before failure.

Your spring issue sounds to be the exception, not the norm.

 

[WRO]

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Like a fly to shit.

I’ve had 2 absolute pile of shit f150s yet somehow I don’t need to post about my 2 complete engine failures and so many issues I can’t add them up.

I wish my life was so simple that I could still be stuck on leaf springs from nearly 20 years ago.

 

[WeiserBucks]

Like a fly to shit.

I don't understand what you mean?

 

[WRO]

I don't understand what you mean?

Every Toyota thread we hear about leaf springs from thinking man.


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[Schmo]

If a set of leaf springs are all that’s really wrong with a truck, that’s a pretty simple fix.

 

[IdahoBeav]

If a set of leaf springs are all that’s really wrong with a truck, that’s a pretty simple fix.

Yep, and it cost about as much as a new set of tires, much less if you did the work yourself.

 

[Thinkingman]

If a set of leaf springs are all that’s really wrong with a truck, that’s a pretty simple fix.

A truck without springs is called a cart, and Toyota should be ashamed for spec'ing the lowest-cost parts like that.
Pathetic.
Luckily I dumped mine before the rust holes in the frame got to 10mm, which is Toyota-speak for 'It's probably not going to collapse going over a speedbump'.
I still feel sorry for the poor suck that bought it while his buddies told him 'It'll outlast YOU!'