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2008 Toyota Tacoma
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Didn't Toyota give you a bottle of wax? Check your glove box. The last 2 Toyota's I bought came with a bottle of their sealer/wax. It's as good as any I have ever used, and goes on very easily.
If not, any carnuba based wax is fine. It's harder to use then the instant waxes, but lasts much longer.
Thanks for the response, aloha!
I would like feedback from the other person that forced Toyota to buy the truck back. Where are you located and how far up the Toyota chain of command did you have to go?
Thanks!
1) Find a spot with NOTHING ahead of you for a hundred feet.
2) With Engine running, put left foot on brake.
3) Shift into Drive
4) With left foot hard on brake, press accelerator to the floor. Hold for 3 seconds. Release the accelerator.
5) Put it back in Park and think about what happened.
How fast did you go? In my vehicle, the answer is zero MPH. I traveled zero feet.
My conclusion - the brakes are MUCH more powerful than the engine. This is true in almost any car.
What's going on here? I do know this - my Highlander has the accelerator farther to the left than any car I've ever owned. Plus, the brake pedal is at least two inches further left. Stepping on the brake pedal makes my right leg contort uncomfortably. Also, the brake pedal is raised to be an inch or so closer to me than the accelerator. This forces you to lift off the accelerator, keep lifting up another inch and half, move your foot 3-4 inches to the left, and then step on the brake. The Nissan Rogue, to pick one, has both pedals father to the right; has the pedals closer together; and has both pedals closer to the same height.
So, is this a surging issue? A brake failure issue? A design issue? Or....?
Ok so there are these two square plastic holder things that are screwed into the back seats, what are those things called?? I have accidentally damaged them and I want to replace them but I don't know what they are called so I can look for them and I don't know where to look.....
I have an access cab with the little flip seats. Can anyone help?
Your Tacome is RWD so it is quite easy for the front brakes, PRIMARY, most robust, braking resource, against the engine TORQUEING up the rear. Your expereince in holding the Tacoma "still" might not hold true for a FWD vehicle.
Braking ANY car to a full stop against WOT engine HP/torque AND inertia/momentum due to 60 mph plus speeds is an entirely different matter than holding the vehicle "stopped" when you begin motionless with inerta operating in your favor.
Putting the torque converter in the drive system is also effectively a "downshift" which might result in an engine "loping" at idle when stopped due to the "extra" engine load, loading.
Hmmm...."apply the brakes"...."vibration"...
Brake booster vacuum leak..?