Bad Dealer Experience and Need Advice

So... how many miles have you put on it since you got it back?

 

If you didn't overpay for it, it's worth within a few thousand of what you paid for it. Yeah, I like the Land Cruiser idea too. I like the Heritage Blue or the Meteor Shower colors. Trail Dust is growing on me.

 

I’ll give you $500 for it as a member to member act of kindness..

 

OP must be stuck in the wilderness with a broken transmission

 

10 years old... So it drives like a 2nd gen? They have a victim support group for that: https://www.tacomaworld.com/forums/2nd-gen-tacomas-2005-2015.5/

 

not stuck in the wilderness...

About 10K miles. I have a service appointment coming up. I am just going to have to get over that there isn't much I can do at this point. I have a buddy with the same year yoda and more miles. I am going to have him test drive it and see what he thinks. It sounds like I may be making a bigger deal out of this than I should but having someone else abuse your truck to the point that it comes back and drives different (slower acceleration, slower shifting, etc.) just pissed me off. If it turns out that it doesn't feel like shit to my buddy then I may start to look into a pedal commander for a little more giddy up and control over that shifting. I appreciate all the comments including the snarky shit. Always good to get some solid feedback.
Thanks again.

 

Lemon law is an option. You better hurry.

 

That’s a ton of miles. I would run it empty, put 91/93 in it, drive home, unplug battery or do whatever it requires to forget learned driver habits… see if better/worse and try learning to drive it again.

i swear I can feel resistance in the pedal change when i switch drive modes. Maybe you think you’re pressing the gas a lot but aren’t… are you actually wringing the engine out?


Sometimes I feel like mine has gotten lazy on the highway, until I take off all the nannies and actually put my foot down…. Has all the go it needs imo

 

Drive it around in "S" mode for awhile to keep the RPMs up with ect on.

 

Is this a 3rd gen Tacoma you’re talking about or the new 4th gen with the turbo engine?

 

buyers remorse.....

 

Exactly. Of the complaints that get made about the 4th gen, low power and slow shifting aren't among them.

Lots of things can cause front end shudder on braking. Alignment, bad tire, tie rod, ball joint, etc...

Most of the time it's a warped rotor. Those happen with poor (or over) tightening of the lug nuts, or overheating. A couple extra ugga-duggas on one nut over another ain't good.

A stuck pad or pin on a new assembly isn't out of the realm of the possible. That drag will feel like low power, and could create weird shifting. A stuck pad will overheat and warp a rotor. All of this is easy for a competent mechanic to check. It's two bolts to pull a caliper. It's on a rack, so it's easy to check suspension at the same time.

Any shop that managed to break my windshield when they should have been looking at brakes, is a shop I'd avoid.

Be mad about them driving the p!ss out of it all you want. You're not going to get anything out of that without a lot of legal expense - if even then. Cut your losses though and don't let them work on it again.

I assume they fixed the windshield. Did they use a Toyota one? or a cheap Chinese Safelite replacement?

 

OP's initial post, the timeline isn't mathing. I think he is in the wrong forum, just waiting for someone to point it out.

 

I think so too.

 

This guys deff talking about a 3rd gen plus his profile pic is a 3rd gen

 

Sig and previous posts describe a 2022 Tacoma. No idea why this is on this forum.

 

Because all the cool kids have moved here.

 

I don't know about moved, but I do like to visit...

 

i will add to that there
a missing pin
this was found by i over 2 years after the Toyota dealershop did a brake pad service on my relative '11 reg cab
hopefully not All dealer would be this incompetent but this one sure done did



symptoms that led me to dig in there one full day to replace both rotors at 80k miles (possible warpage)
shimmy in the steering on low-speed stopping
pounding sensation upon hard braking coming off the freeway at high speeds
NASTY chatter and pounding in the ABS on winter slicked frozen slop