My opinion on what’s causing that is “slop” in the driveline, 3rd gens were notorious for that (some of them) the other theory is the transmissions is having some kind of delay to it and us trying to shift when the truck is stopped …. Idk I’m not an engineer but trying to use my common sense
Zero codes, currently 2600 miles, last dealer visit was October 15, only one dealer. Honestly I just don’t feel like dealing with dealerships, I’ll just drive it until it breaks or Toyota issues a fix . Dealers insult my intelligence
That isn’t the only issue with mine, it also is bad driving at low speeds, clunks, jerks, bangs, shudders and vibrates at low speeds, it’s so embarrassing I won’t let anyone drive in my truck. To answer your question everything was unicorns and rainbows until 500ish miles then all the problems...
See that’s the problem though. Failures aren’t necessarily related to hard shifts. Some trucks shift great and then randomly fail and get stuck in gear with zero prior symptoms, others like my truck shifted great for the first 500 miles and then developed all kind of weird issues, hard shifting...
Exactly how the rest of us feel. Tacoma is marketed as a “go anywhere off-road adventure truck” well…not really because Toyota admits that there are thousands of Tacomas out there that might not come back
It’s a random couple thousand if not more trucks that could fail. Doesn’t guarantee it will fail but that thought will always be there. Toyota should be doing a customer support program for this is absolutely ridiculous to leave us in the dark on such a major issue