2017 TRD Off Road steering damper and rear leaf spring replacement...!!

KBOX · Jan 24, 2018

Wow. Just wow. I'd be livid.

Pot_Lickr · Jan 25, 2018

Well, After a good hard look by me and the shop foreman, nothing seemed to be damaged.. a couple scuffs in the gas tank protector, thats it..

Its back together.

Won't be going back, that's for sure..

Pot_Lickr · Feb 3, 2018

After having the truck back for awhile now, I notice the shaking is still there, but it is not near as bad... I guess this is something you have to live with on certain Tacomas....

Bummer..

8102 · Mar 8, 2018

Pot_Lickr[OP] said: ↑

After having the truck back for awhile now, I notice the shaking is still there, but it is not near as bad... I guess this is something you have to live with on certain Tacomas....

Bummer..
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Mine does the same thing, Dealership says it is a "normal operating characteristic" of the Tacoma. Sometimes shakes you right out of your seat.

Pot_Lickr · Mar 8, 2018

I'm over it..lol

AWDDude · Mar 8, 2018

Pot_Lickr[OP] initial post: ↑

So since day one with this truck, its always had this hop when you applied the brakes..

It feels like a warped brake drum on the rear, but its not always the same.. Sometimes it can be pretty unpleasant.. I've lived with it for 8000km, and today I had it in because its the only thing that bugs me about the truck..

The techs took it out.. Two of them.. They came back and I went out to talk to them. The one tech declared "its a defect"... And we have to get the parts to fix it.

Apparently, Toyota has revised rear leaf springs for my truck... He explained the issue has to do with pinion angle.. And this is Toyota's fix... Also, they are replacing the steering damper as well...

Not overly happy about them having to tear into my new truck... But they are addressing the issue..

I'll keep this updated as I go along..

I'll be having a bird if this doesn't fix it and it was a warped drum all along..

But they assessed it so quickly that they must have seen this before and know of the issue either through a TSB or through seeing the problem come to the dealer more than once...
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the tacoma has a steering dampener? where?

Jh8473 · May 29, 2018

Pot_Lickr[OP] said: ↑

Thanks for the read..

I'm going to let them do the fix.. See where it lands me...

I'm coming from the GMC world, rock solid trucks but always some quirk..

I think it don't matter what you get... There always will be something..
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Rock soild my ass, what about the GM shake.

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