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Originally Posted by Jetboy
I finally got a chance to go drive a new tundra yesterday. Toyota should have waited another year. It was surprising how bad fit and finish was in a number of places. Very un Toyota like. The paint quality was not good. Heavy orange peel throughout the body panels. The panel fitments around wasn't Tesla bad, but there are a lot of little gaps in errors that is something you don't expect from a new $70,000 truck. Just misalignments, stuff like that. And what really threw me was seeing poorly fit seat covers.
But they need to get the manufacturing cleaned up. Because it was not up to typical Toyota standards. The misfits seat covers and body panel misalignments would always bother me. So maybe a second or third year if you're picky about it like I would be is worth waiting.
Final thought is that the V35A would be ridiculously fun in a Tacoma or a 4Runner. Toyota has got to put it in. I really hope Toyota does a better job with the new 4runner than they did with the tundra. Most of the issues with the tundra can be fixed. The cab design sucks. But I guess I could accept that. The rest is just quality control.
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Thanks for the test drive report, sad to hear that Toyota has now hit reversion to the mean. I guess they figure, their competition is Ford, Chevy, Jeep, Dodge and Nissan so why bother trying to be better quality then their "competitors" since they can sell all they produce.
It is unfortunate but it seems Toyota America is now more interested in profits to show Japan corporate they are earning their keep, instead of maintaining or improving quality products. So the reality is, unfortunately, I guess we all just have to go back to hoping warranty will take care of the issues, regardless of the brand we buy, instead of buying a vehicle you can keep for 5 - 10 years and not worry about much going wrong on it, it seems that is fast becoming a distant memory.
