Hood Un-bonding, 3rd Gen

Hello everybody!

I hope that yall shook your trees already this morning!

Has any of you 3rd Gen owners had a problem with the hood un-bonding? How was your specific dealer action? Here is my hood after 25k now and the factory glue is separating and the hood flutters more than it ever has now.


My local dealer is Pueblo Toyota, which is 1.5 hours one way.

Thanks!

 

Wow. That is crazy. Is the top skin deforming visibly? I haven't ever seen anything like that! (Don't own a 3rd gen, but have been in the body shop industry the last 7 years or so.)

 

Common 3rd gen issue.

 

My 2nd gen had this going on at less that 20k miles.

 

Goes back to second gens that use the same NVH flexible adhesive. Pretty common since the adhesive isn't very strong and pulls apart. The problem is the hood skin is so thin a tougher adhesive will cause the skin to crease when it flexes. Scooped hoods are more rigid and don't seem to suffer from this.

 

The support in the inside is pulling away from the hood skin. Not yet, though I have more hood flutter than before.

 

Was it fixed?

 

That is what I have read here on the 3rd Gen forum. I have read where there were a few hoods warrantied, and one was warrantied to a skewp hood (which I would not mind having).

 

Finally a win for the scooped hood

 

Yep! And I am one of the 0.95% of 3rd Gen owners that bitch about sitting Too high as I have a longer than average length torso, and the rearview mirror cannot be pushed up further.

 

Nope

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/rear-view-mirror-relocation-bird-dawg-indudtries.444316/

 

Shows how much I know. Though I guess i would never see that not being at a dealer. I need to keep up on my newer Taco issues!

 

Doesn't work with OR Automatics due to the Crawl Control stuff in the headliner. And the entity that makes that part never emailed me back after many emails to them.

 

I only notice it when under the blower at a car wash but it's certainly disconcerting then.

 

Spoke with a service writer at Pueblo, who asked around the coworkers and no one has heard of this problem before.

 

I got the OK to go to my local body shop and get an estimate to have more NVH sealant installed, and we found more places that have the OEM sealant failing. The guy I talked with has a 2nd Gen, so that's a plus.

 

I checked my 2016 at delivery of the truck to me and the separation was there. This has been a known problem from the start but Toyota keeps claiming they have never heard of or seen this problem before. The dealer sent my truck to a body shop and they sealed re sealed the hood skin to the supports. Some people have done it themselves. Check in 3rd gen and enter hood separation in the search.