Tundra engine recall - interesting news

It could be. Dealer stated they found scoring on the bearings from metal debris just like what has been happening. Odd that even after the issue has been fixed that engines that are failing are still failing the exact same way.

 

It’s just a mere coincidence…. It must be another. Bad gas took out that engine.

 

What is the word on the warranty of the replacement motors? Standard or extended?

 

Had a 2021 Denali that had lifters replaced before the first oil changes. Truck was quick and the fuel mileage was awesome. At 90,000 miles started consuming about 2 quarts of oil every 2000 miles. Traded it in for my 2023 Capstone and love it. 38,000 miles on it and so far just a few issues.

 

bad gas? lol.

 

Holy moly, 2 quarts every 2k miles?

it turned into a 2 stroke outboard , ha!

 

I'm hopeful they'll have the remedy soon. I had the reduced engine power message hit yesterday on the highway. Coasted to safety but concerning. Put it in park and it was shuddering, turned off and then restarted. Started and ran fine after. Its ridiculous that we have to reboot our trucks as if it's a computer from 1995.

I called and Let dealership know and they said to call Toyota and washed their hands of it. Toyota said to call dealership.

 

That's really frustrating. How many miles are on your truck?

 

What about us Tundra guys that have had a few 5.7's, I even had a 4.7 that I put 375k on before I got bored.

The 3.5 tt 10 speed blows them all out of the water, even more so here at altitude. Yes there is an issue, Toyota is taking care of it. I will have about 100k on my 2022 before it gets a new engine, I am ok with that. As a wiser man says, Boost on!

 

I replied to a guy that complained of having to reboot his V35-FTS (fails to survive) like it's a PC from '95.

I thought I gave him a pretty decent solution to his complaint.

 

Removes foot from mouth.... Yes you did.

 

43k

 

When power drops suddenly on the freeway, rebooting takes time and swapping to a V8 isn't an option.
I've had my tundra since before it was a known issue. Until this issue I would take the gen3 over gen2 any day.

 

Dropped my truck off for its 5k/6 mon service this morning (plus looking at alignment and back two windows not rolling up). The guy said they have had a few more Tundras in for spun main bearings since I was in a few months ago. He also said you will start seeing less and less new Tundras on lots. I asked why and he said Toyota is starting to pull engines off the line to build up for the recall work. He made it sound like they were going to take most/all of the engines being made to prepare for the recall and really slow production, but I would think someone on here would have caught wind of that as well.

 

I had posted my dealer went from looking like a Tundra storage lot in March with them as far as the eye could see to having only 10-12 on the lot 2 weeks ago.

 

My dealer still has quite a few (70 in stock/transit), but it could be just all what the have coming in. I am not sure. The guy did say they had 12-15 master techs and 51 bays so they got the room and manpower to do a few engines at the same time.

 

Dealer in Asheville has 53 tundras in stock. Ford dealer has 130 F150's. That's still a lot of inventory for a small market.

 

Just wanted to pop back in. See how you and all my other buddies were doing.

Really enjoying the Land Cruiser 250 , build quality is outstanding, but I do truly miss my Tundra in many ways. Is there any news on replacement motors? Anyone actually getting warranty replacements yet?

 

Yes please!

 

It was stated. I’m not doing the legwork to find it, but it was stated that after a meeting with the regional rep that they (the dealership) should expect less ‘25 inventory availability due to engines being redirected to the recall.

 

Then the dealers can sticker bump the MSRP err the SRP (whatever number the dealer makes up) back to $80,000 and above again.

 

I don’t think it will do dealers any good to try to claim scarcity of Tundras due to a recall on the Tundra is justification for higher pricing.

My local-ish dealer has a pile of them on the lot that aren’t moving because the truck is overpriced and clearly (engine recall) perceived as being unreliable.

 

What??? only 38,000 and already few issues!!!! What a crap!!!!!
I have 2008 4runner with almost 300,000 miles, not a single issue. I had a corolla 1990 with 450000 miles, the only issue was CV boots. My daughter has 2010 Camry with more than 200,000 miles, dont know exact, but more than 200K, not a single issue, and here!!!! the whooping 38,000 and only few issues??!!!

 

Since many have been interested in values going down because of recall, I received such an email from the dealer I bought from. I bought a used 2022 TRD OR 4x SR5 13 months ago with 19K miles for $48K. Dealer just offered me $36K for it, 36K miles, sight unseen. I said I was just curious, loved the truck and was getting a new engine anyway, and he asked if I had another number in mind.

Just in case anyone was interested in relative values.

 

To be fair, the dealer didn’t pay $48K for the truck before he sold it to you and he surely would not have sold it for $36K if you had traded it back.

 

We have an LC250 also. LC forum is great. There’s no LC200 trash talking our turbo purchase like we have here.

 

On IH8MUD? Sheesh that’s all they did for several months on the 250 Forum. I quit reading it, it was so bad. Maybe they calmed down enough I could go find something interesting to read again.

 

Yeah I just kidding. Can’t avoid it.
I guess I’m not supposed to drive over 85mph in my GRC too. That’s what the internet says.

 

Yup aware of this, just passing on a data point.