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Tundra vs the Big 3 Continued III
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bco
I feel so stupid and foolish that I need to be verbally spanked and I'll, for sure, get it here. Thanx in advance!
My '94 Chevrolet had the feature. it was an electronic shift tranny, and i used to always back out of my driveway and throw it in drive while the truck was still drifting backwards. My old (non-e shift) would clunk very hard if I was going back too fast. The new e-shift tranny would never clunk and would actually KILL the engine when moving backwards too fast. nice feature.
same with moving forward...if I was doing 50 and accidentally thru it into 1st (as I did when descending a steep hill one time), the tranny would hold it in 2nd gear until the truck decelerated to a slow enough speed where 1st gear was safe shift. then it would automatically downshift, if still in the 1 position.
My new truck does the same thing downshifting...haven't tested the reverse on this one though...different driveway.
And yes, you should never shift into nuetral..EVER...when going down the road. you are asking for trouble.
Someone said that in the silverado if you take off to fast or do something that is harmful (like reverse to drive before complete stop) to the engine or tranny it will shut down various things (cylinders and other stuff). Im sure it didnt do any harm to your truck.
On my trip (second fill up) i had 328.5 mls with a mpg of 16.2. 60% Highway and 40% city
Ryan
Glad you got your truck shimmy fixed. So it was the wheels then? Or tires? Both? Sorry, I got in on the tail end of this one so I didn't see what led up to the heavy balance weights.
So is this the fix for the Tundra vibrations?
Also, a while back you were dogging the Fords for the Firestone tires. I mentioned some Toyota trucks having the same tires and you said your truck has Bridgestones. Firestone and Bridgestone are basically one and the same. Just fyi and no crap intended.
Ford is in a bad light because they knew of the tire problems, but did nothing until many people were killed and/or maimed. There was a lady getting her explorer tires changed at the shop. The manager asked her what year her vehicle was. She got very indignant and said "how should I know, I just drive it". This typifies lots of SUV buyers and helps explain why Explorer sales have not been hurt at all by the recall. BTW, can you imagine the same scenario happening with the 4runner. You'd be ranting and railing at Toyota's criminal behavior.
Ryan
that little "neutral on the down-hill" sounds to me like someone desperate to get an extra mpg or two! damn, man, that musta scared the sh*t outta you. good thing you didn't maim it or yourself.
bco
Another point is if you are that conserned about gas mileage you should have got a diesel my 4X4 ram gets 23MPG empty and 18-19MPG towing my 6000# boat over the mountains.
No. It may sound cruel, but this is just typical any business. Nobody is going to create havoc and mass hysteria until they know for sure that the tires are in fact defective and need to be recalled. I don't believe that they knew the tires were a fatal safety hazard and continued to ignore it. It took time to gather the facts.
Although not a safety issue, Toyota has known of several things that they should have notified the public on, but chose to wait till it became more critical to do so. That will happen with anything, not just cars, and not just Ford.
Glad your truck is fixed.
And it does NOT save you any gas. If you foot is not on the pedal, you are using the same amount of gas, regardless of rpm, whether it is in gear or not.
the only thing you gain is you end up going faster when you reach the bottom of the hill.
You wanna see pics of my truck go to
Http://www.picturetrail.com
At the left where it says view album type in Ryanbab
Ryan
rwell,
sorry i couldn't make you feel any worse. i harbor no negative feelings towards anyone when it comes to their truck. i know i'd be crushed if anything ever happened to mine. now, you're a dumb-[non-permissible content removed] for shifting to reverse at 65 mph or whatever...if that makes you feel better ok. other than that...glad your shimmy is gone...
bco
Ryan
would I tun into the shimmy problem if I put on bigger tires on my Tindra?
My overall average 80% city 20% highway is 14.4 after 4 months
I'm thinking of getting at least wider tires for the Tundra but I dont wanna deal with the balance routine.
I checked into fixing it and found that you can only buy the whole assembly. An SR5 mirror with power control costs $150.
On the bright side - it was easy to remove the door panel by following the service manual. It is an excellent manual. Just don't remove the tweeter - it isn't necessary. The mirror attaches with 3 nuts. Pretty easy.
Let's see - only six years and 50 weeks more bad luck. Oh boy!
- Tim
4. Ram
3. Tundra
2. Silverado
1. F-150
Ryan
They ranked the interior materials for the silverado last but in another interior category they were #1. Kinda inconsistant throughout. Also they gave the silverado last in exterior design i guess they like the radical looking designs of the other 3. Some people prefer little changes.
Also the silverado was the quickest in all categories. Braking was won by the tundra.
I guess it was a good comparison but still very biased for all the 4 truck makers. Opinions opinions.
"My trucks better than yours" there is absolutely no way to settle or prove that
Ryan
- Tim
But I'm beginning to understand some of the posts here.
Ryan
ratboy3
who cares about specs, drive what you like...If you ever exceed the weight of the truck or the tires, it will let you know, the tires will explode.....
bco
course, it may be a little slow. lots of folks trying to find out the deal. don't want to sound like a mom or anything, but, the more people that report their problems, the more likely they are to recall those tires too...
bco
found my favorite quote:
"Overall interior design reminded us of many other
Toyota products. The steering wheel and much of
the switchgear is corporate parts-bin material, but it all operates with typical fluidness. As it's a Toyota, we were expecting a higher level of quality materials, but we were disappointed to find that they were about equal to the Chevy's. The Toyota also came up short on useful interior storage. The center console was noticeably smaller than the ones in the other trucks."
just for emphasis:
"AS IT'S A TOYOTA, WE WERE EXPECTING A HIGHER
LEVEL OF QUALITY MATERIALS, BUT WE WERE
DISAPPOINTED TO FIND THAT THEY WERE ABOUT EQUAL TO
THE CHEVY'S."
equal to chevy? (gasp!) NO! ROTFLMFAO!
whatever will you do 2 years from now, when they say:
"as it's a toyota, we were expecting MUCH BETTER RELIABILITY, but we were disappointed to find that they were NO BETTER THAN ANY OF THE OTHER BIG-THREE TRUCKS."?
bco