Tundra abuse

That's what got me on my 2019 F150. One morning when I backed out of the drive and put it in D, it slipped into neutral. The 10 speed trans has hard shifts in one or two lower gears. I called service dept and transmissions shops trying to figure out how to service it. Owners manual said once every 150k miles. IDK maybe it just needed to be serviced. One trans shop said don't touch it and drive it forever. Had 60k miles on it. But there were a lot of major problems with the 10 speed trans and cost 9k to replace with a rebuilt one with long waiting time. Sad because it was a great truck but would lose my mind if I got hit with major repairs like that. I'll at least do the drain and fill ever 30k. There are a lot of different opinions on this. But this guy who I see on regular bases never serviced his at 400k. Never had a single problem with the truck and its beat to hell.

 

I guess that is life… lol. you do what you can, luck plays a big factor, and there are no guarantees. Sometimes people who dont follow the rules or standard processes still get luckier than the ones who do. Im unfortunately bot that lucky lol. If my repair is going to cost me 50% of the value of my truck, than it’s time to part ways.

 

Maybe looking to buy a used one and assessing worst case if it didn't get regular maintenance or sees a good deal on one with no proof of maintenance?

So yeah kind of weird question and maybe I'm wrong and just guessing. I wouldn't want to take risk with no records.

 

Thats a great way to phrase it! Luck does play a factor. That's why I got one still under factory warranty and will get the extended warranty. I had purchased one for the 150 then canceled it. Kicking myself for that. But sold it for 3k more than I paid to a dealership and it all worked out. I'm not attached to any vehicle. If the Gen 3 works out I'll trade in for that one or keep mine longer. Who knows. Gotta roll with punches.

 

Haha I know right!? Im planning to keep mine long enough to see if Toyota will make a Hydrogen version of the Tundra since the company decided to opt out of electric production vehicles. The Toyota Marai was design fail, but the technology in a truck would be amazing!

 

@XR5dude https://www.gearpatrol.com/cars/a39075557/toyota-tundra-v8-hydrogen/

 

Good stuff! That would be awesome although I don't know that much about hydrogen, just read a few things here and there but recall Toyota was exploring that direction. Really makes you wonder what direction things are going. The lower maintenance for the EVs will likely be much bigger factor than fuel savings. That's what this topic is about. But all the shortages of minerals, copper, and all this stuff that EVs need. IDK. Cyber truck would work for me for 95% of what I need, if it reaches full potential. I had the 5.0 V8 in the F150 and really liked it. The Land Cruisers also have the 5.7. Such a beast, perfect if you need to tow a mini excavator every day. lol I'll look into this hydrogen V8. The EVs will likely be way more reliable but everyone has an opinion on that, and the "range aniexty" is the number one concern about EVs. The idea was to make hydrogen energy from renewable sources, green hydrogen, but Europe and other places might opt for non green to get it jump started with all the energy issues over there.

 

I had a 96 silverado with 4l60e that I worked pretty hard. I had it serviced at about 120k, and rebuilt at around 130k. The 2nd shop said I never should have had it serviced. There was all sorts of carnage inside. Sad part is at 150k the body came loose from the frame and it developed a bad miss, and there was no point throwing good money after bad at it.

 

It's kind of a roll of the dice. 150k miles doesn't seem like a lot. I aways plan to keep a vehicle at least 10 years or even longer if possible but only one I've kept over 120k miles and got rear ended. You never know. But I always keep vehicles well maintained, fully synthetic, etc, and plan to keep each one forever.

At least we have reliable vehicles now and can wait and see what direction trucks and cars go. I just want to do scheduled maintenance and that's it.

 

Toyota actually just had a show with a whole new lineup of electric concept vehicles. Wouldn’t say they are completely out on electric

https://www.gearpatrol.com/cars/a38513778/toyota-electric-pickup-truck/

 

Good question. Short answer, its a northern truck and it will rust out before the engine blows up even if I put Walmart oil in it every 20k.

Longer answer, I think most maintenance intervals are very very conservative. I see no issues with 10k oil change intervals (which many synthetics are rated for from their manufactures), with 15k within my tolerance. The modern synthetic (and even non synthetic) oils and filters have additive packages that are so much more stable than the old stuff which required 3k changes. These low compression V8s are pretty simple engines and aren't very demanding as far as engines go.

Furthermore most vehicles these days are doomed to fall victim to planned obsolescence or faulty engineering long before lack of lubricity from a life time of cold starts and long OCIs would have any noticeable effect.

That said I know most people will disagree with me, and I don't want to start a debate. I wouldn't recommend going to 17k on an oil change, that was an accident.