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I have helped friends remove their caps in the past and they are not too terribly difficult to remove...just loosen a few clamps and take it off. It is a job that requires two people, though. I hope others will provide you with a little more info..I really don't have alot of experience with caps. You picked the right truck...I'm sure you'll pick the right cap!! Good Luck.
It sounds like these vehicles don't have balanced tires. Either from the port or from the dealer. I have first hand experience with tire places that are not used to Toyota wheels. Maybe your dealers are farming out the tire mounting? I took my 4Runner in for a new set of wheels to a tire dealer that had done a good job before and they came out awful. The deal was that a new guy from a ford dealer had done my tires. When I took it back the manger realized the problem and explained it to me. The deal is that ALL Toyota factory wheels REQUIRE a special boot to go on the tire balancing machine. With out the special boot it is not possible to balance the tire. Toyota tires are the ONLY tires that EVER need a special boot for the balance machine. Many places don't know this. With the Tundra's rack and pinion steering, you will absolutely feel any tire that is not balanced.
I recommend you tell the dealer to get the tires balanced.
As to needing a special boot to balance the tires, who cares, as long as dealer knows about it and can get the job done. I would be more concerned that they are not coming out of the factory with proper balanced wheels. This sounds like the same problem GM is having with its 2 wheel drive trucks. I never did understand why Toyota uses "port installed" options to finish off its trucks. Why not just do it at the factory? My only guess is this is a carry over from when all Toyota were built in Japan and they did not want to slow down the line to produce variations in cars & trucks. Easier to just ship the cookie cutter model to the USA and finish it off the way customers wanted them.
Scott
Z, here's an idea. why not go to another topic if you don't want or don't own a Tundra.
Tundra II is the title of this topic, what part don't you understand?
F-150, Ram, and Z71. Tundra was the winner!
"Overall the best pickup we've driven" they said. In fact, Tundra was the only pickup rated
excellent.
I own a SR5 access cab with 1000 miles on it.
My only complaint being the squeak between the drivers side doors. I have found out from an earlier post that all it takes is a little adjustment to the door latch too cure the problem.
Sorry to butt in guys, but, just wanted everyone to know that per Consumer Reports the Tundra is the right choice.
Lets compare a Tindra to the Z71 in cargo space and capacity, ext cab seating room, tow capacity, offroad capability, interior comforts like lumbar or placement of accessories. Lets compare these things in a fashion that a "real" truck is utilized and your "Tindra" will be about timid as the women who own and drive them. Option for option and capability to capability, ANY of the big three trucks offer more truck for the money and value.
"Oh what a feeling" to want more truck....Toyota!
Drive the Truck.
Might be slightly smaller. Who cares? Might not have all the bells and whistles(lumbar support, was it?). Who cares? It's still the best all around truck made today. Maybe not if you work construction 7 days a week, but I'm willing to guess that most of the people on this page don't.
Just a hunch.
Just sold my friends, who were dead set on the Silverado with the F150 a close second, on a Tundra. All they had to do was test drive it. They drove it a little harder than I would have someone else’s new truck but they needed to know. With 4 adults in the Tundra I had them do HW and off-road and, needless to say, they ordered a Tundra the next day. “Absolutely no comparison in terms of handling, power and feel of ride” they said, and these are long time big 3 owners who never had the gumption to wander into a Toyota dealer. I like what they did about the Tundra: built solid, no crappy styling and does what it claims to, not to mention famous Toyota resale. We all had to lament at how sad it is that American cars have been junk for 25 years. What’s it going to take to get competitive again? One thing for sure; the Tundra raises the standard of how a PU should ride, sound, look and feel. Maybe the big three will take notice or maybe they’ll just keep makein `em bigger.
I did have a similar vibration problem on my old PU that sounds awful familiar to the vibration problems noted here.
I owned a 91 Toyota 2WD X-tra Cab that I bought new. Shortly after I picked up the truck from the dealer, I noticed a really SLIGHT vibration at 55 mph. It wasn't bad enough to be annoying, and it only happened around 55 and went away when I drove 60 mph.
After 65K miles, I bought new tires, and went one tire size up. Instantly the vibration was back, and A LOT worse. I took it back to the shop and had them re-balance the right rear tire 4 times (each time getting better, but never solved). Each time the tire was re-balanced, the the speed at which the vibration happened changed. Eventually I lived with a slight vibration at 55 that went away at 58mph (I just drove 60 or faster).
One day I picked up a nail on my right rear tire, and had to put my spare on (it was the original spare that had the original tire dimensions). All of a sudden the vibration was gone. If felt like it had when it was new. This got me thinking that the vibration is magnified with the width of the tire, and it was NOT a BALANCING problem. Balancing only covered up the problem.
My theory: maybe the combination of tire width and wheel offset is the true source of the vibration. My 4WD Tundra does not vibrate at all, and it seems like the vibration problem is isolated to 2WD models (like my old PU). I'm not sure how to solve this other than try to balance the vibration out of the wheel.
When I was in High School (MANY years ago), we had a contraption in my Auto Mechanics class that balanced the wheel on the car. It attached to the wheel and you spun the tire with a little motor. You adjusted two knobs while the tire was spinning and it balanced the whole wheel assembly. A couple of years ago I found one of these contraptions at a friends brother's shop. I used it to balance the right rear tire on my old pickup and balanced the vibration completely out of the truck.
I can't remember what that thing was called, but it was used before computer balancing was around.
As I said, I'm waiting until I have more cash to put down on it, or until I get VERY sick of driving my stick-shift vehicle from job site to job site in stop and go traffic. It's too much of a luxury right now, since I have no payments on it.
Whether or not magazine writers like my truck or not does not concern me. I don't really care that you or anybody else drives a truck like mine or not. I'm sure you made your decision on buying a GM or what ever based on whatever works best with our individual criterias. So who is to say what truck is better or not.
I don't judge you, or anybody else, on what you drive. Anybody who does is a LOSER!!!
They also said the Chevy had several defects, and lots of squeaks and rattles
Over 6000 miles:
Absolutely no vibration problems.
I have the slight rattle where the two doors come together on the drivers side.
Just a bit over 2,000 miles on it, and they hadn't figured out a price for it yet. I think I'd go for a new one before I bought this used demo model, even though it's spec'd close to what I want.
Please let me know what kind of gas mileage you guys are getting. I do mostly stop & go/city driving during the week and usually get in the 14.5 to 16 mpg range. My best to date was 18.5. I have close to 4900 miles on the Tundra at this time and have been using 87 octane gas. I have been getting the mpg that I expected but would like to know if others are seeing different results. Thanks in advance.
Cars/trucks are not you children (something that you should take pride in). I don't go and say my son is better than your son because he was born in Seattle; that would sound as stupid as saying my truck is better than your truck because it's built by Toyota. Think about it, people cheer with pride over something so stupid as a good review of a material possession in a magazine, and don't cheer with the same enthusiasm when their kid comes home with good grades.
Just my opinion.
I'm looking forward to the electric car as my concern for air quality goes beyond my love affair with cars. American carmakers have had this technology for years yet Toyota will be the first to introduce its RavEV in 2000. As consumers who drive this industry we need to send a message to the Big 3 and buying a foreign maker is a powerful one. Toyota has never lost site of its mission: to build the best for less. The big 3 seem to have a different mission: sell, sell, sell. Who do you want to support?
So the point is that I, as well as several others I'm sure, have tuned in to this topic to get information from people who own or who are about to own a Tundra. I enjoy the comments and chuckle at some of the replies. But, the reason that I tune in is to learn about the troubles that other people are having with their Tundras so that I can troubleshoot my own Tundra for the problem.
When I posted the info from Consumer Reports,it was so that everyone out there would know of another resource to look up information on the Tundra. Remember, we purchased the Tundra because we felt that it was a better pickup based on our research of pickup trucks. So the purchase alone tells people that we think our pickup is better than the others. We have already determined that the Tundra is the best pickup for personal use and not for hualing 7000lbs every day. If bigger is better, then why don't we sell all of our pickups and purchase the F350 crew cab?
Sorry for the babbling, but use this sight for what it was designed for.
I am hoping that as time wears on that the gas mileage will improve to 16+ all the time when I stop "leadfooting" it around and the first oil change, break in period come about...I also live in high altitude, does that have anything to do with gas mileage?
results. I'm satisfied with my mpg. I just wanted to make sure my truck is "normal".
Mike Miller,
How are the leaves up there in your neck of the woods? Are there any left or are they all on the ground? This is off subject but have you noticed how many acorns there are this year. I have to park in the garage at all times to keep from getting pelted. There are more than I can ever remember. I can only imagine what it must be like in the mountains.
Also,
I've been afflicted with the lead-foot disease much like you. I hope they don't find a cure anytime soon! Looking forward to the first snow here in NC. I'm sure you'll get to see it before me. Let me know how the Tundra handles it.