Just need to vent...

The only way they could have made these scenes funnier would be if the smokes were menthol
LOL

 

The good ole infotainment system in the old 2014 Tundra started it's old habit of just rebooting itself. I was on a phone call with my sister, yesterday, and it decided to just reboot itself....VERY annoying. I'll have to go in and remove my cell phone, forget the Toyota in my cell phone, and reconnect everything. (The only known fix for the stupid thing.)
I've researched replacing that entire thing with an after-market but Mr. Budget doesn't like the idea of dropping a grand!! Why are car electronics so darn expensive??? (And I really don't want some 18-year old Joe Shmoo messing with my wiring, I've seen their "work" on plenty of YouTube disaster videos.)

 

Count your blessings! If you had one of the new Turbo V6 versions, I see there's another recall for serious engine problems

 

Heck yea...I've been waiting to trade in the old Tundra for a new one but all these problems just keep pushing those plans back and back...

And I REALLY don't want anything with a turbo...all of my friends with turbos are always having issues. (And if I ever did, the oil would have to be changed every 2,000-3,000 miles because turbos runs so hot, burns that oil right up.)

 

Even as reliable as our Duramax turbo Diesel is, we were 50 Mi from nowhere (aka Miles City Montana) when our Turbo intercooler blew apart - robbing us of 90% power while pulling 5+ tons of trailer - up hill. Service tech told us, yeah it's a known issue. LOL

 

Yep, turbos and hybrids seem to be way too popular.....I'll probably keep my 5.7L V-8 for as long as she will let me. (But not even 60,000 miles on her, yet.) I'm thankful we don't get vehicle rust here in Colorado but I do drive her through car washes in the winter that have underbelly sprayers...on warmer days.

 

You need to be changing your oil every 3k anyway.....

Crutchfield.
Done.

I have 2 GMCs with turbos - and yes, I don't like them either, but turbos can be replaced.
I use 3k OCIs (DIY) and consider them to be 'disposable vehicles' that will be traded in or given away at 150,000 - 200,000 miles.
Now that somebody is pushing back against the Climate Industrial Complex and the Big-5 are not as afraid of naturally aspirated V8s a my vehicle choices might flatten out a bit.

 

Yep, I'm sure MANY Tundra owners, just like me, are hoping and praying Toyota comes to their senses and brings back the V-8 engines in the Tundra.

There's a little hope, the last V-8 Toyota has is the 5.0L V-8 in the Lexus LC500.....okay, Toyota, we'll take that, please!!!!! (But with no turbo...hybrid would be okay, would actually like my Tundra brakes to last a lot longer!)

 

I'm nearing retirement.
I'd be delighted with a truck the size of a Dodge D50 with a small, naturally aspirated engine.

A TRUCK.
Not a car cosplaying as a truck.

 

I've seen a video abt a year ago re: Y2Ks Ford F250 plain-jane crew cab in white, survive 20y of salted roads, all due to a PVC homebrew underbody sprayer in the guy's driveway. The same exact model / spec truck used by his employees, were bad enough to need junked, which was the subject of the video.

That-generation Ford rocker panels turn to tortilla chip in 5y where it freezes and are infamous for it... so when the guy put his truck on a lift in his local shop to see how it fared... only surface rust, no bubbles under the paint anywhere. Can't be mad at that

May get pricey... but a more up-spec synth oil may help, were you to buy one of those nightmares.

I personally warn against racing oils (which defo have additive packages for heat degradation out of visc), due to lacking other useful additives for street vehicles, but not competition ones (like acid buffers). I like Pennzoil's Ultra Platinum line, which is well-priced and worked beautifully in my 1.5L turbo Civic, which I drove quite hard. Just make sure it's Ultra Plat and not regular Plat...

LC's on the chopping block now tho... and given how many billions of yen were spent developing the most embarrassing trucks Toyota's ever made... turbos aren't going away (they're OEM on the next Corolla and probably Prius, if 5G isn't the last generation... due to the press Toyota delivered about their plans post '27.

Trouble w/ Toyota to some extent... is if your country's customers' driving habits / desired features / insurance rates are too radically different from JDM Japan's... they'll always default to making the JDM designs fit the rest of the world. Yeah they're vehicles specific to certain markets but the core engineering's based on a modified roadmap, first determined by engineering boundaries set down by Japanese drivers.

In Japan... laws dictate maintenance services be strictly complied to, Japan being a rather fastidious society anyway maintenance-wise, esp compared to us in 'Murrka. Makes it easy their excellent customer service social contract, provides for a super-nice exp to take your car in for an oil change; no surly kid at the f***ing svc writer's desk to give you attitude w/ every honest question; you're treated as a valuable customer and the process is very pleasant to exp. Works only in Japan tho, obviously.

Rather naïvely, the factory thinks people here will be just as likely to adhere to intervals -- which of course we don't for a variety of reasons. But even in 2026, after almost a century making cars... they still think their overseas customers will matter-of-factly adhere to the manual -- like they're supposed to, for best performance and longevity (we know now, that isn't always true -- oil intervals? ehht -- but in general still applies).

So perhaps in Japan, turbos aren't that big a deal, as most owners don't push them very hard, even work vehicles (if you've ever driven in Japan, most drivers not rich people's arrogant kids, or street thugs, or about-to-lose-their-licence-for-life drunks, are pretty easy on their cars). A few years back I'd traveled w/ family 300km (~4.5 hrs) from Sapporo to Hakodate via Honda rental van... and didn't exceed 80 kph. Yeah, there were kids in Starlets and other kei sports minis buzzing around... but not nearly the pucker-fest a long freeway trip is in most of the US, esp around a big Southern city like Nashville, Memphis, or Dallas (dbl at night when the street racers emerge in their catastrophic failures full of 6qts of oil, and deposit the lot w/ 15 lbs of boost on the freeway in front of you ).

Unfortunately emissions regs dictate drivetrains... so couldn't keep the obviously-perfect-for-purpose 5.7L V8 for Tundras... not to mention keeping two completely different drivetrains in the same vehicle worldwide (where even more strict emissions regs need obeyed) would be hugely expensive. Both are pretty non-negotiable to that boardroom, given Akio's insistence on non-milquetoast-driving Toyotas already rankle them