Hell I was just now made aware of that by reading this. Now granted I haven't looked or own anything small enough to tow with this thing. I agree 100% that it should be a standard option on any pickup. He'll a Ford Maverick probably has one.
The issue is even if they do not offer a factory option, Toyota has not made it easy to add an aftermarket trailer brake controller like we used to on trucks before. Yet they advertise its tow capacity.
The storage REALLY sucks. I usually keep a 12ga shotgun or rifle under my rear truck seats. The only thing that fits in mine is a SBR Ar15 behind the seat on passenger side. I don't like not having access to it from my exit side of vehicle. Hopefully never need it but I like to have it on me. I'm still back and forth on the retrax tonneau or a weathguard tool box due to lack of storage. I've not had a tool box on a truck in 20 yrs. They've always had enough storage for a few habd tools, paper towels, rifle, impact gun when traveling etc.
I guess that I assumed it was contained within in infotainment system. Hell it has a 7 pin on the back of it. I just assumed it had brake options. What are guys doing with campers?The issue is even if they do not offer a factory option, Toyota has not made it easy to add an aftermarket trailer brake controller like we used to on trucks before. Yet they advertise its tow capacity.
I didn’t upgrade $4000 to get a model with it as I didn’t really need the other options and thought I’d add an aftermarket one. As well, here the upgraded Off Road only has the 5’ box so I’d have to get a Sport.
It’s like Toyota is saying it is a truck, but only for doing some truck things. For a complete truck get something else.
New smaller shotgun? Haha
While I can understand being dissatisfied somewhat we also need to take things into context. I deal with quite a few new Chevys, Fords, International, Mack trucks in my business as well as Deere, Cat equipment and none of them have been without first year or build teething issues. This is one reason that will not not purchase a first year build. I had 2 100k bobcat T76 loaders that Bobcat couldn't keep running due to design issues and build. I webt to Deere and I've had injectors replaced at 700 hrs 7k under warranty and a few other issues, new Cat 306 excavator has had 2 touch screen monitors in the first 50 hrs, new Mack triaxkes in shop for 3 months due to emissions issues 300k trucks. A few friends bought 2020 chevy diesels and 3 out of the 5 lost conplete transmissions in under 20k miles etc. The loose bolts are a assembly issue, the tank a design and I've never heard of a pothole blowing off a shock tower on any vehicle but maybe it's happening somewhere to sone trucks. I'd be concerned with the shock valve exploding if you hit a pothole that hard but maybe I have lower or more realistic expectations.
It’s a first year vehicle, they all have teething issues. If you browse the forums enough, you’ll also get a biased opinion as the majority of people are coming to forums looking for answers to problems. Vast majority of people are having little to no issues with their truck.
It’s the same people who came out hating on the 3rd gen that all of a sudden resurfaced to hate on the 4th gen. But wait, here is where it gets good bc those haters are now all saying that the 3rd generation is better. Haha lunatics. It’s simply jealousy at the end of the day!
