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Update: Noise came back and had the meeting with the Toyota factory rep today to diagnose. After about an hour of trial and error. The noise ended up coming from the firewall side weatherstrip that contacts the hood. It’s a harder plastic that contacts the bare metal when closed. He cleaned and...

The Toyota factory rep is coming the 22nd, I plan to still attend that appointment to show them how simple a fix it was and how they couldn’t diagnose it in 3 days, resulted to it be “normal”.

There are two bumpers, one on each side of the hood to add pressure to the hood when it’s latched and adjust the height between the hood and fenders. My driver side bumper was threaded far down and was barely applying any pressure, if any. I unscrewed it to match the size of the passenger bumper...

Figured it out! It’s the hood. I was stumped as to why the noise stopped yesterday after washing it. So I recreated what I did, poured water onto each shock/bushing i could find, one at a time. Noise stayed. Then remember I popped the hood to dry it. So I pulled the latch and drove a few feet...

Everything looks good and is tight. The noise almost sounds like a cracked or dry rotted bushing. I washed the truck today and the sound was gone. Drove it two hours later and it was back.

So my 2024 TRDOR has developed a noise at low speeds. I’ve noticed it for the last 800ish miles, only 2000 miles on it currently. When driving slow speeds, 10 mph or so in the neighborhood or parking lot, I get an audible clunkfrom the front end when going over small bumps or even some cracks...