Shock blown through the top while driving down paved road 😡

[32spoke]

. My V10 plus car is my speed car if I want to actually do something. Rides very smooth and I enjoy the seating position/ power steering and overall cabin.

you earn a lot of money, we get it. Perhaps just sell your Tacoma and find happiness elsewhere? Can you do that for us?

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[Lando]

Im amazed people thought there would be no issues....

Lol, this the lofty space a Toyota holds in the minds of the general public as to quality and reliability. To be fair, well earned over the past 50 years.
I think all of the technical advances and electronic gizmos makes them more efficient and better but it’s more to go wrong. A mint 1987 Toyota truck for example I’d dare say may be more durable than a new one. Or at least less to go wrong on it.

 

[Flyfish007]

Lol, this the lofty space a Toyota holds in the minds of the general public as to quality and reliability. To be fair, well earned over the past 50 years.
I think all of the technical advances and electronic gizmos makes them more efficient and better but it’s more to go wrong. A mint 1987 Toyota truck for example I’d dare say may be more durable than a new one. Or at least less to go wrong on it.

Agree way too many electronics but there's no turning back now lol.

 

[32spoke]

Some of these issues may not be fixed because they are only occurring on a tiny number of trucks. I wonder what people are thinking. Do people think Toyota/Bilstein didn't test these shocks? Do they think they didn't hit the bump stops hard over thousands or millions of cycles in testing. Do you think a shock that regularly fails hitting a minor bump on a flat road wouldn't have been detected by a manufacturer with Bilstein's reputation? People talk like they are experts that know more than the Bilstein engineers. If it's truly a major design flaw that somehow got by engineers, it will be addressed. If it's just a production flaw in a small number of units, then it probably won't and we just have to hope those units fail early while still under warranty.

It isn’t the shock manufacturer. It is the strut mounting plate that holds the strut/shock. This will likely be address by Toyota. My guess is that is if it failed on something mild, the mount could possibly have been cracked from a prior event?

 

[Sner]

@GRKTRD If Audi made a pickup truck, could you imagine all the problems they’d have

 

[32spoke]

My R8 is a year one car at 2017. Granted has only 14k on it but feels like a brick to me. These cars are well documented like the Huracans as best rentals. Seen them go 100k miles beat to shit.

1: you wrote 2017 Audi R8 is not year one car… what you have is improvements to existing R8 models that had been produced for years. You have a Gen 2 model “4S” that was released in North America in 2017, yet that same generation was released in Europe 2 years earlier, so “4S” gen 2, existed in 2015 and any refinement needed with the minimal generational change, had two years to address any problems before coming stateside.

2: The V10 plus difference vs V10 was software to open the throttle bodies more, a louder exhaust, and hopefully a set of indirect injectors to address the horrid carbon buildup that afflicted ALL V10 5.2 and V8 4.2 liter direct injection engines. If they didn’t add the injectors, then you will have 2 or 3 carbon cleaning events before you hit your “beat to shit” 100k miles distance and you will lose easily 40+ HP on that V10 with carbon buildup.
3: the Lamborghini model you named, utilizes the exact same 5.2 liter Audi engine, since Lamborghini is owned by VAG.

 

[Cincy513]

Any update on eta from Toyota on parts?

Finally got my truck back it took 25 days to get the parts

 

[maxx075]

Finally got my truck back it took 25 days to get the parts

I'm assuming they just replaced the shock with a new one? No actual improvements?

 

[Cincy513]

I'm assuming they just replaced the shock with a new one? No actual improvements?

Yep they replaced the shock and

Finally got my truck back it took 25 days to get the parts

 

[GRKTRD]

1: you wrote 2017 Audi R8 is not year one car… what you have is improvements to existing R8 models that had been produced for years. You have a Gen 2 model “4S” that was released in North America in 2017, yet that same generation was released in Europe 2 years earlier, so “4S” gen 2, existed in 2015 and any refinement needed with the minimal generational change, had two years to address any problems before coming stateside.

2: The V10 plus difference vs V10 was software to open the throttle bodies more, a louder exhaust, and hopefully a set of indirect injectors to address the horrid carbon buildup that afflicted ALL V10 5.2 and V8 4.2 liter direct injection engines. If they didn’t add the injectors, then you will have 2 or 3 carbon cleaning events before you hit your “beat to shit” 100k miles distance and you will lose easily 40+ HP on that V10 with carbon buildup.
3: the Lamborghini model you named, utilizes the exact same 5.2 liter Audi engine, since Lamborghini is owned by VAG.

ya that is correct on the carbon build up and stuff but it still is like a gen 2 and this truck is a gen 4 (granted everything changed). The car is a plus ya. The whole volkswagen info is not new to me. IDK something about this truck just doenst rub me right sometimes. Ive had tacomas since 2015. Never not had one in between. Id of kept my 3rd gen that was nicely built and put the magnuson with the OTT tune on it. Would have had easily 350 horse on it and been set for years to come. Things long gone now and im sure the next guy loves it. First time ever I am looking at myself saying I should have gone ranger raptor. Best truck on the market not really negotiable anymore with Toyotas new build quality. That said truck is really smooth and I find the interior very comfortable. All I got to say really for the 53k price tag lol. Maybe ill wait another year and get into a pro once they depreciate. These gen 4s will be highest depreciating Tacomas ever made. Simply becuase they arent 35-40K OTD anymore. 65-70K is a LONG way down compared to 35

 

[32spoke]

ya that is correct on the carbon build up and stuff but it still is like a gen 2 and this truck is a gen 4 (granted everything changed). The car is a plus ya. The whole volkswagen info is not new to me. IDK something about this truck just doenst rub me right sometimes. Ive had tacomas since 2015. Never not had one in between. Id of kept my 3rd gen that was nicely built and put the magnuson with the OTT tune on it. Would have had easily 350 horse on it and been set for years to come. Things long gone now and im sure the next guy loves it. First time ever I am looking at myself saying I should have gone ranger raptor. Best truck on the market not really negotiable anymore with Toyotas new build quality. That said truck is really smooth and I find the interior very comfortable. All I got to say really for the 53k price tag lol. Maybe ill wait another year and get into a pro once they depreciate. These gen 4s will be highest depreciating Tacomas ever made. Simply becuase they arent 35-40K OTD anymore. 65-70K is a LONG way down compared to 35

Are you a Kalifornia resident, like me?

 

[GRKTRD]

Are you a Kalifornia resident, like me?

AZ

 

[32spoke]

AZ

Then you can bump up the octane/ms109 and run that v6 gen 3 Tacoma without getting into hot water with the Kalifornia air resources board.

I drive from San Fran Bay Area to green valley, Az tomorrow

with the new taco.. hope not to have trans issues

 

[GRKTRD]

Then you can bump up the octane/ms109 and run that v6 gen 3 Tacoma without getting into hot water with the Kalifornia air resources board.

I drive from San Fran Bay Area to green valley, Az tomorrow

with the new taco.. hope not to have trans issues

I’m not going back to gen 3 now unless some crazy shit goes down. Lost to much money on trade and taxes to go back to gen 3. Probably get into a pro next year once they lose their luster and some dude gets hosed on his 70k truck

 

[32spoke]

ya that is correct on the carbon build up and stuff but it still is like a gen 2 and this truck is a gen 4 (granted everything changed). The car is a plus ya. The whole volkswagen info is not new to me. IDK something about this truck just doenst rub me right sometimes. Ive had tacomas since 2015. Never not had one in between. Id of kept my 3rd gen that was nicely built and put the magnuson with the OTT tune on it. Would have had easily 350 horse on it and been set for years to come. Things long gone now and im sure the next guy loves it. First time ever I am looking at myself saying I should have gone ranger raptor. Best truck on the market not really negotiable anymore with Toyotas new build quality. That said truck is really smooth and I find the interior very comfortable. All I got to say really for the 53k price tag lol. Maybe ill wait another year and get into a pro once they depreciate. These gen 4s will be highest depreciating Tacomas ever made. Simply becuase they arent 35-40K OTD anymore. 65-70K is a LONG way down compared to 35

Yet my inconvenient truth(s)of your Audi R8 declarations still stand, correct? To be fair, you did effectively insult many forum members with what you wrote, you know that, right? Just putting this out there for those that read what you wrote…. Ya? You wrote that your R8 was a year one, year the R8 had been in the U.S. market for 11 years before the model year you purchased. You purchased it used, yes? Rhetorical question. Enjoy your Audi, as I do mine… and enjoy the raptor, or whatever you purchase next if you are looking at Audi engine mods, let me know.. I am very well versed with R8 and RS/S 4,5,6,7, and 8.

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