If Your 5th Gen has KDSS, Answer This Poll Question

[El Deano]

No problem in 195,000 miles on two different stock rigs.

 

[T4Ranger]

71,XXX miles on the 2014 TEP... no issues while stock or lifted
1,200 miles on the 2016 TEP... no issues, stock for the moment. lift going on this weekend

 

[BlueRidge77]

2016 TEP w/ KDSS. Stock suspension. 8k miles and no issues. Hope to have none!

What an issue looks like:

My rear cylinder at 55k miles. Bone stock. Being replaced under extended warranty this week.

My experience is atypical.

I'd guess 90% or more owners never have a problem, but that does not mean that problems can't happen. I'd say 90% of 4runner owners never post on this forum, either. No warning light yet. It may be clunking on left-hand turns, or I might be hallucinating.

It's just a leak, anything can leak. Only Toyota knows the actual vs predicted failure rates.

What will the cost for replacement be? Is it just replacing the rear cylinder and refilling the system? How does the front cylinder look? Just curious. (Also, you have a good attitude about this, but would you have this good of an attitude if you didn't have an extended warranty...? )

 

[ShermanOlsen]

My failure was at about 1400 miles. Did some mild dirt roads in the Snoqualmie Pass area in WA to get familiar with the truck before getting the tires replaced at ~400 miles, Cooper AT/3s. Headed out for the N. Cascades and the northern WA area for a total of ~900 miles, and traveled the WABDR in places. Nothing really requiring 4 wheel drive but many miles of washboard. Failure didn't actually occur until I was back in town. I took a slow speed turn, felt an unusual lean, and the idiot light lit up. From my picture above the attachment of the hydraulic ram to the bar seems to have been faulty in that it walked away from the clamp, which seems like a factory defect or installation error. Toyota of Seattle gave me a hard look and asked if I had been offroad, but fixed it under warranty. After the repair the clunking which seemed to come from the front on some slow speed turns has disappeared, though, which makes me wonder if low pressure in the system contributed to excessive movement somehow—maybe when the truck was on the lift for the tire replacement. I went with the OEM tire size specifically to avoid issues with the dealer if I had KDSS problems, and maybe my paranoia paid off.

 

[mybabydaddy]

2014 TEP... Approx 45K, small lift for over half those miles, no issues in stock form or lifted.


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[Biscuit32]

No I haven't had any issues at all. Lifted and over 10k

 

[SLang925]

NO issues through 6,000 miles and I just put on Bilstein 5100 adjustables on front and new coils on back.

Have you ever had an issue with KDSS on your 4Runner if so equipped?