Is this a death wobble or just a “out of balance” wobble?
Are y’all holding your dealer techs hostage and making them re-rebalance wheel+tires when that may not be the actual problem?
Sounds like some people have had enough return trips they could lemon law the vehicle, but I don’t think that’s what we want. We don’t want to get rid of a curse of a truck, we want one thing to go away.
There has to be someone who can do further A-B testing.
1.) Will your wheels+tires make another Toyota do the same thing?
2.) Will another set of wheels+tires make YOUR Toyota do the same thing?
3.) I don’t think this is a dealer balance machine issue because some people have visited 3rd party tire shops and it is not resolved. The dealer/shop would have lots of bad reviews for the same issue, across all vehicle brands, if the machine was not balancing tires right.
4.) Lastly if we eliminate all of the above, it comes down to these trucks shipping with the alignments that, while “in spec”, ALLOW road vibrations to run amok and ruin the ride.
Yes, I’m going to repeat it until we see some results: we need more positive caster than aligning to factory spec gives you. Think of the 4Runner as a shopping cart - glides and turns really smooth until it hits the tiniest bump then the front wheels want to spin all the way around!
We want each front wheel caster angle to be more like a bicycle. Yes, you might lose a little wheel well clearance as it’s going to take the front wheels a little “forward” towards the front bumper, but it should make for more stable, “locked down” ride.
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