Undriveable 2021 TRD-OR - HELP WANTED

My stock truck without tune has the dead pedal feel. I plan to add the Banks Pedal Monster to get a more linear throttle response. IDK if this will help with your downshift issue though.

 

My imagination is in the exact opposite direction. This is the experience that I wanted:



It's a truck. A small engined, stiff suspended, low geared, inefficient noisy pavement crawler.

Comfort is for the weak chinned dependents of a generous trust fund. Speed is for middle managers that drop the words "EBITDA" and "valorize" to make themselves feel important. I am not those people. My truck is not those things.

It's a well worn utility knife where the polish on the hilt has long been replaced by many years worth of hand oils, and the blade has been frequently honed to hide its many nicks. My truck is not pretty nor is it supposed to be. Its there to get the job done. It's not polite but it's not going to complain either. One weekend it's going to haul the camper and a load of firewood down a gravel trail, the next it's going to be bringing home a load of mulch, and somewhere in between it's delivering my briefcase to my office.

And all the while, it's going to do it with the flair and temperament of a 1970 Scout. Impolite, crude, rough. But hot damn, is it cool.

 

This should be pinned as *The Tacoma Creed *

 

Small correction. Pedal commander will change pedal response, tune changes the power curve. A pedal commander basically talks to the computer and tells it that you’ve floored it (depending on how aggressive of a setting you use) when you’ve only pushed it a little bit.

 

Don’t use cruise control on hills. That may not resolve your complaints, but it will help. With all the hills in BC I drive, I have learned to turn cruise off as soon as I see any hill at highway speeds.

Example. In cruise at 60mph, and a steep hill it will drop to third gear at over 4,000rpm. Without cruise, I can drive the same hill at the same speed in 4th at 2500-3,000rpm.

 

Yeah, I've driven it quite a bit since the update. I confirmed with the tuner that the changes he made would not change anything but the pedal response. I haven't noticed any difference in highway performance since the update. On the highway, I'm pretty much always in S5 at this point, and pretty much always below 70 mph. The TC unlocks on pretty much every hill, but it only drops to 4th on steeper grades at this point. I'm getting used to it.