Shock top hat failure on our stock 2024 Tacoma Off-Road while offroading

[tacorancher]

Agreed. I also installed the icon reinforcement kit. My TRD OR bottoms out over speed bumps at 15mph my 20 year old Lexus sedan can blow over at 30mph. I really like my truck overall, but I’m pretty disappointed in the front suspension on the off-road.

Bottoming out at 15 is no bueno. But I’ve never trusted those thin looking billsteins on the OR

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[TacoFreak]

Bottoming out at 15 is no bueno. But I’ve never trusted those thin looking billsteins on the OR

If I had an OR I would probably be looking to upgrade the shocks and fix several problems at once.

 

[SonoranSurvivalist]

If I had an OR I would probably be looking to upgrade the shocks and fix several problems at once.

It's why I'm not doing a leveling kit. I'd much rather replace all of the suspension than waste money on something I ultimately should throw in the garbage anyways. Frankly, it puts a sour taste in my mouth for anything from bilstein.

 

[tacorancher]

It's why I'm not doing a leveling kit. I'd much rather replace all of the suspension than waste money on something I ultimately should throw in the garbage anyways. Frankly, it puts a sour taste in my mouth for anything from bilstein.

I wonder if it’s Billstein or toyota being cheap - either way not acceptable

 

[TacoFreak]

It's why I'm not doing a leveling kit. I'd much rather replace all of the suspension than waste money on something I ultimately should throw in the garbage anyways. Frankly, it puts a sour taste in my mouth for anything from bilstein.

Yeah - good plan. It is a surprise to me that an Off Road is not really ready to go, you know, off road. It has put bilstein in a bad light, just like the JBL "premium" sound system has downgraded my opinion of JBL, which I used to really respect.

 

[SonoranSurvivalist]

I wonder if it’s Billstein or toyota being cheap - either way not acceptable

Most likely on Toyota, but the failure part has Bilstein written on it.

 

[cranny]

Almost 8 weeks since my top hat broke and truck is still at the dealer with no ETA for new parts. Parts manager says he suspects Toyota is working on a fix instead of replacing the part with another I'll probabably destroy again but he doesn't really know. If so, could be many more months? BUT after 5 weeks they got me into a base moxel 4x4 RAM 1500 which has been a great truck so all good with the wait. 5.7 HEMI gives almost the same mileage as my hybrid Tacoma and rides way smoother on highway although offroading is limited by cheap tires..

But thanks Toyota Canada for paying for me to have a truck! Quality move.

Moral of the story: baby your OR truck offroad until you replace the shocks unless you want to risk months without your truck!

 

[MT-Taco]

Agreed. I also installed the icon reinforcement kit. My TRD OR bottoms out over speed bumps at 15mph my 20 year old Lexus sedan can blow over at 30mph. I really like my truck overall, but I’m pretty disappointed in the front suspension on the off-road.

They are not bottoming out. It’s sounds like it but it’s the valving in the shocks that make the noise. Either way I also was disappointed with them! They have been replaced.

 

[BAQ717]

Almost 8 weeks since my top hat broke and truck is still at the dealer with no ETA for new parts. Parts manager says he suspects Toyota is working on a fix instead of replacing the part with another I'll probabably destroy again but he doesn't really know. If so, could be many more months? BUT after 5 weeks they got me into a base moxel 4x4 RAM 1500 which has been a great truck so all good with the wait. 5.7 HEMI gives almost the same mileage as my hybrid Tacoma and rides way smoother on highway although offroading is limited by cheap tires..

But thanks Toyota Canada for paying for me to have a truck! Quality move.

Moral of the story: baby your OR truck offroad until you replace the shocks unless you want to risk months without your truck!

Many people have been just fine off road. Sucks you’re in this situation but plenty of others are without issue. Keep us posted though, definitely interesting they’ve kept it so long. I was not a fan of the stock shocks but they seem to be wearing in nice. We’ll see. Wouldn’t mind upgrading to some QS3s even though it’d be equivalent to lighting money on fire given how often I off road.

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