2022 Limited Tundra engine failure

34,000 miles. Started knocking and of course all the warnings, bells and whistles. Three hours from home. Towed to dealer. Engine is toast. Thank the Lord it’s under warranty. Not definite but all symptoms of a main bearing failure. Not good Toyota !! Not good !!

 

No modifications. Highway use. Travel. No off roading.

 

I worked for Southeast Toyota for 37 years and trusted the brand without question. Not now.

 

Hate it for you OP, hopefully they can get you back on the road quickly.

 

Of course the doubt demons creep in. If Toyota hasn’t narrowed down the root cause, are we getting the same defective engine put in our trucks, to fail again. I understand the reasoning for them to drop the V8 but as for reliability, stupid move.

 

It might help us feel better if Toyota released an official tally of Gen 3 engine failures and the status of their engineering analysis. Or maybe that would just make us feel worse?

 

No manufacturer does that. Proprietary information that could be used against them by competitors or in class action cases.

 

Even though this sounds like typical @Eurodriver BS / tongue in cheek humor, there's likely something to this. You always hear about "seating the rings" and "breaking engines in". Those on here that have run their engines hard have not suffered the failures. Could be coincidence though......

 

I know that. Just making the point that I no longer get that warm fuzzy feeling from driving a Toyota. If I was them, I might try to remedy that somehow.

 

Ford just last week gave exactly that info. Recall on 1600 engines that had a casting issue with the block. Took ownership of it, new long blocks for everyone affected.

 

The real question everyone has is, does Toyota even know what the problem is? Both scenarios are disconcerting. They know and haven't said anything, bad. They still haven't figured it out, bad.

 

That’s the billion dollar question

 

I never babied mine. Didn’t abuse it but didn’t hesitate to put my foot in it when I needed to. Don’t want to be going through all this crap again in another 30,000 plus miles making it even harder to have it covered under warranty.

 

I’ve seen at least one MY24 failure

 

Really? Link? Disappointing for sure.

 

I haven't seen that. Can you also share? I have one of the earliest 24' builds. Build date 8/23.

 

I’m on mobile right now but I’ll try to find it when I get back to my desk. It may been on reddit

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/ToyotaTundra/comments/175z821/2024_tundra_significant_loss_of_power_issue/

Post above, but looks like OP updated to say the dealership could not replicate the issue. So I retract my statement, for now......

 

I missed that one. Just curious of which engine and years affected?

 

happens to them all unfortunately. Is your tremor affected?

 

No, mine is a 2022. This was only a (relatively) few blocks cast probably all at the same time that got put in vehicles built in July-August. Obviously not a great situation, but the way Ford owned it, was transparent about it, and is correcting it says something at least.

 

A little more information on the Tundra engines. I spoke with some old coworkers still with the company. Toyota has done stop inspections on existing inventory. I used to conduct them myself when I Was there. The search is dependent on build codes and dates. Once identified as the target stock , it is scrapped or returned to the factory. This indicates they have narrowed the search. Hopefully the bad blocks are out of circulation.

 

What octane did you run and are you in cold climate when it fail?

 

How does toyota determine which build dates/codes to stop inspect? Are they still inspecting, I.e is there still an issue?

Given your experience and connection with current employees do YOU think the bad blocks are out of circulation? Any guess as to when? (Based on the stop inspections).

 

ya, I get that. What’s been sold has been sold. But it sounds like at a certain point in time tundras would be “in the clear” because of these inspections?

any idea how far in advance the engines are made? If I understand correctly the engines are assembled elsewhere, and shipped to Texas for the actual truck build.


Did you ever get around to tearing apart that short block you bought?

 

Huntsville, Alabama, so not like, overseas or anything drastic.

I suppose the number's appropriate but I didn't realize that the TTV6 production crew was only 450 people. Suppose that scales, at any rate.

 

Would be nice if they eventually contact owners of affected trucks (assuming they’ve identified possible VINs) for either a targeted recall or post sale inspection. My guess is that they probably won’t though. I suspect though it’s just cheaper for them to wait for the impacted blocks to fail.

I guess, at the very least, it’s some good news that they’re making progress on identifying a pattern. Positive direction.