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Originally Posted by Flyer
Plenty of cracked Tundra frames around. See those? No? Google. My buddy's 2014 4Runner- transmission related at 5,000 miles. Nobody is immune. I am sure my Jeep and GMC will have some issues but pretty good so far. No major shop visits. Yeah, I'm not spending 60K on a high-end truck and buying basically a 2010. Feel free to. I get your point but my (albeit limited) experiences with GMC and Chrysler have been good enough to buy one or two (soon) of their trucks. Toyota has to get up to at least 2019 to get my money anymore.
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No one is immune. But all of that was on the SAME one truck. In the case of the front diff - it had never had oil in it ever. So it was shipped from GM with no gear oil. That's the sort of quality control problem that plagues GM. And poor engineering. A crank position sensor inside the bell housing? There's no reason that should ever exist. And if it does, it should at least be accessible from the bottom, not the top. It requires removing the cab to access in the FSM. Not once have I ever seen any Toyota product with that type of shortcut in engineering. Toyota's BOF are way out of date. I'm fully in agreement with that. But they were properly engineered to begin with.
Fortunately there's data kept and we really don't have to argue.
