Turbo Warranty

Looking at a new 2022 Tundra and read up on the turbo issues. Why not simply purchase a Tundra from a Toyota dealer that includes a "lifetime powertrain warranty" with the purchase? From what I read, the turbo/wastegate is covered so there would never be an out of warranty issue. Thoughts?

 

those dealerships that has "life time warranty" is a 3rd party program not backed by Toyota, and they typically requires you to meticulously service those vehicle at participating service centers. If they don't like your service history, it's so easy for them to reject the claim. Plus you never know what's in the fine print. They are pretty useless imo

 

There are several local toyota dealers in Va that offer lifetime powertrain warranties. They may be specific to dealer and not toyota sponsored, but they offer them and advertise about it in their local commercials.

 

When I purchased my 2019 used, it was a CPO with 12 month / 12,000 mile additional warranty from Toyota. The dealer also offers the lifetime power train warranty as long as maintenance is being followed to the letter. You can do it at home, but have to keep receipts.

 

I agree that it is a third party warranty and did read one dealers list of items covered which included the turbo. Probably correct that they would do their best to avoid the cost of a turbo repair say six years from now. But it does provide some level of additional protection.

 

What did you see? I read it and thought I remember seeing 6/60K on turbos? I'll have to reread...

 

Best way to get a turbo to last longer is shorter oil change intervals And letting it cool down idling for 60 seconds after a spirited run before shutdown. Worked so far on my kia, its at nearly 200K, all original turbo, wastegate and all. Luck all!

 

never 10k miles, I'll be changing mine every 5k

 

Good practice but probably not necessary. Tundra has an electric pump that circulates turbo cooling for a while after the engine is shut down to prevent oil coking. Saw this in the tech review video by the Toyota tech CarCareNut posted in another thread here.

 

The shorter oil change intervals is money well spent. 3-5k oil Change intervals would be my choice. Also find out if there are any inline oil screens for the turbo oil lines. Those screens have captured many an errant particle and saved a turbo. And then filled up with captured particles and clogged and starved the turbo of oil and destroyed the bearings.

 

This is the summary of every turbo Subaru I've owned. That's always the first thing removed by modders as they inevitably starve and destroy the turbos. Hopefully Toyota has a better design then Subaru's banjo fitting screens.

 

If you have to do oil changes twice as often as a V8 plus other maintenance wouldn't the fuel savings on the turbo equal the extra maintenance costs? I don't think there's a more efficient way to move a brick down the road. Old school reliability with more fuel or new tech with higher maintenance/unreliable and less fuel.