TFL just broke their new Tacoma

I’m not going to believe that until the 23s get more mileage on them.

 

looks like some major abuse to me

 

Dang thats still a decent amount even if just at 1% its to many imho for Toyota.

 

One guy as in like an engineer or part lead, yikes, hopefully they have addressed it moving forward, not only the cost in repairs but the damage done to the brand's reputation and lost sales.

 

Are these people at TFL so useless that they can't crawl under the fucking truck and wiggle the front axles or eyeball if they're turning or not when put into 4WD?

They need to tow it to the dealer "professionals"? Give me a fucking break.

 

I’m sure they don’t want to damage their relationship with Toyota. But, I agree, they are useless.

 

They are auto review people...not car/truck guys that know how to wrench or really off road for that matter.

 

Yes, they are.

 

Then they probably shouldn’t be doing reviews and tests off-road

 

I'm guessing there is a protocol at Toyota dealerships that if there is a failure on a new model they have to contact Toyota Corporate. Technician performs inspection/disassembly, sees broken part, tells supervisor, supervisor/manager contacts Corp. And the protocol also says don't tell the customer what happened? Does the dealership say "your truck is broken, we don't know why, Toyota is looking into it"? They could say what broke, we don't know why, Toyota is looking into it. Seems hard to believe that local Toyota employees can keep national security level secrets and TFL doesn't know what happened.

 

I had an early year 2016 Tacoma that suffered from the "rear diff hum" this is similar to what happened for me, they said not sure why its doing it, rear diff was pulled and was sent to Toyota and new one put in along with my courtesy Platinum warranty from customer service. That is now deemed "normal" by Toyota, lol.

 

I don't see the bed light button, but maybe it's one of the Aux or light with the A button.

 

I'd bet money TFL knows what broke, they're probably waiting on part to come in. They could also be giving Toyota a chance to respond officially and blame a freak accident or take ownership of a problem (which they won't do but as journalists you give them the chance)

 

Oh they probably knew right away, but that's not enough to content to make a video.