Already at 600 miles and I’m worried.

Please tell me I made a good choice.
1. It’s going into dealer on Wednesday for the fuel gauge known issue. Since I have unlimited fuel in the tank apparently.

2. there is this noise coming from in front of drivers side in engine compartment after I shut off truck and even after it’s on. Anyone know what this is? I got back in truck 20 minutes later and now I don’t hear it.

I really like the truck but I’m getting a bit nervous. Click on the link. One is truck off one is truck on.

Is it venting something?

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/de0ydtq1sd4ega0/AAAaaLwt3op4Fyll9cUr-acUa?dl=0

 

What is the Fuel Gauge issue? Is there a TSB on this?

 

I haven’t seen a TSB on it but I looked it up online and I saw that it is a known issue. When I talk to the service tech to make my appointment, he said yes there’s three different causes. It can either be needing to be recalibrated or there was some other part or some thing that needed to be swapped out, but he did say it was covered under warranty.

 

Basically I drove 150 miles yesterday after a full tank and then when I got in it this morning, it said my tank was full.

 

Likely the turbo coolant pump which is an electric pump to ensure coolant is available to the turbos after the engine is shutdown to provide proper cooldown.

 

Settle down it’s gonna be ok.

 

I've noticed the same thing and have the larger capacity fuel tank (32gal i think). But everytime I fill up, it's between 20-24 gallons. I think because the fuel tank is soooooo long, that the sensors aren't accurate until the truck sits and the fuel levels out in the chambers.

 

I often park in a loading dock on an incline that throws my fuel gauge off. Drive to a level surface, come to a stop and shut off the truck while still in drive. Put it in park and the fuel gauge should return to the correct reading.

 

also remember, the guage is lopsided on reading levels in the tank. the tank drains slow on the top half versus the bottom half where it drops about 2x as fast.

noticed this on the 2018 also.

 

I’ll try that. But still seems odd.

 

Ok ok. Thank you. I really want to love the truck. I’ve driven my last 2005 tundra for 15 years.

 

@NATE4SURF I'm going to assume that noise is normal because mine has done the same since new. I now have 5k on the clock. The evap pump near the rear of the vehicle (under bed, behind fuel tank) also runs at seemly random times when the truck is off. I have a new VW Atlas that does some weird stuff like this as well, so I've never thought much of it to be honest.

 

How did you figure that out?! Lol

 

Common issue, my truck does the opposite, measures correctly when parked on my sloped driveway for past few months and this last fill-up, it reset to full when I left work - where its parked on a normal no incline parking lot. This is the fix the dealership will tell you to self calibrate, you actually need to wait like 5? secs before putting it into park after shutting it off in D, and you can actually see the gas gage resetting

here is my proof, drove 149 miles already after fill up and all of a sudden I had a full tank, this was after I finally stopped


I also do not experience any type of gas drain issue from first half to 2nd half of tank (I have experienced this on plethora of other vehicles but not this 22 tundra), this is the first vehicle after driving 30 miles after initial fillup, my fuel gage needle barely touches F already, like every drive drops the needle - its as if I am lifted and on 35 E rated tires, but im all stock lol

 

You must be Toyota corporate..
The issues on this forum plaguing Gen 3 Tundras are astronomical..

 

Someone here mentioned it in a different post about the issue.

 

What year is your Tundra? When did you purchase it?

 

Where are you all going where they "know about the problem'??? I've been in multiple times on the fuel gauge issue and the clicking in the headliner/a-pillar and they can never 'reproduce the problems' so they cant fix anything. Well of course you cant reproduce the problem unless you drive it 200 miles and see for yourself what my gauge is doing. I have 3 dealers near me and none of them can fix the issues. *frustration*

 

‘23 last week I got it.

 

I live in Orange County California taking it to the Irvine Toyota Dealer. I’ll update later this week after it goes in.

 

I have recorded it. All they hear is a clicking. The video doesn’t help them locate it or reproduce it. On my drive reports in the Toyota app I see they’ve taken it out for 25 and 30 mile drives, harsh braking, sudden stops, and fast acceleration all through and still nothing…

they tell me ‘the truck is behaving great, no issues’

 

i have a rattling coming from the hybrid unit finally stopped by the dealer on my way home as the truck was doing the noise and I make the master tech crawl under the truck to hear the noise and they finally agree I have an issue, this is after 8000 miles and complaining multiple times and multiple test drives and they always said can’t reproduce the noise.

Videos I recorded of the noise did nothing for them because Toyota wants them to reproduce the issue if they can’t then Toyota says no problem all good.

 

Is it the A-pillar that clicks after riding on washboard roads? I thought it was the seat. Reminds me of my old Wrangler with its peculiarities.

 

Definitely higher up. I was confused on the origin at first too and thought maybe somewhere behind me or in the dashboard somehow.

Just took it in again today and gave the guy solutions on some of the posts in this forum and they refused to take down the headliner to look. They said toyota did not approve that approach because some have failed. Think I’m getting a line of crap…