I Finally Got a New Toyota Tundra and I'm Disappointed

rev up your engines okay here we have the brand new toyota tundra with the v6 turbo instead of the v8 engine i'm gonna tell you the truth about it it's not a demo toyota didn't give it to me no he loves the look of the truck it's the full-sized toyota truck and he got the trd 4x4 off-road beautiful whales he's got a lot of water in here the man's thirsty that's because he runs a barbecue see all that charcoal he uses that stuff up now everybody knows throughout history the tundras have been insanely long-lasting trucks but this is uh kind of a controversial one because it doesn't have the v8 under the hood as you take off the goofy top you can see it's a twin turbo got a turbo on each side and it puts out 389 horsepower so that's eight horsepower more than the v8 that it replaced and in terms of torque the v8 has 401 pound-feet of torque but this v6 has 479 pound-feet of torque it's got more torque on paper seems like it's got a lot of power the biggest problem the tundras always have were they were gas hawks now you take my grandson's thunder it's the 5.7 liter v8 engine he drives it normal he gets about 10 miles a gallon so far the owner of this gets 14 to 15 miles a gallon it's average to get somewhat higher but of course a lot of times those are fantasy figures now this is four-wheel drive and it's rated at overall 21. he's getting between 14 and 15. that's quite a big difference now it's better than the 10 yes still not great but it's a big truck what do you expect got all kinds of technology in it with toyota's new engine systems now i do have to say toyota engineers are pretty good as you can see here you've got coolant for the engine engine but also coolant for the intercooler for the turbo more efficient you can't expect about 15 miles a gallon it was rated at 21 so that's kind of a disappointment and that's not with him towing a bunch of stuff either now he does have a gigantic trailer that he brings his taco business on when he goes to special events i can't wait to see what kind of gas mileage he gets when he tows that with this that'll be interesting he hasn't done that yet so i can't give those figures out but normal driving 15 is a lot lower than the rated 21. now i've seen some of these v6 engines from toyota make noise they didn't build them right but this one let's listen to it that's a cold startup and really once it warms up off the cold start it makes a little noise nothing outrageous but even sitting here it makes quite a bit more noise than the v8s did not as quiet mind you that's with the hood open and really now you don't hear anything at all no it's a v6 but it's not going to be shaky probably at all as you can see it's not shaking at all and he's been driving conservatively you can see here he's getting 14 and a half miles a gallon here which isn't average but that's well below they rate it at 21 miles a gallon so don't be fooled by a lot of these figures now when it came to price he paid less price they did not mark it up i've seen people mark these things up a ton he said he saw one of carvana they wanted 75 grand for it and his cash price as you can see was 619 that's a real price that's not you know the lowest end vehicle where they advertise oh it's only 39 000. forget all that crap you want a nice truck and i do have to say the hopkins little toyota dealers are fair with them because it's only had claw seats and he didn't like it so they put leather seats and everything in and they didn't charge them anything extra for it most places they're gonna hit you for everything but then again it's hopkinsville kentucky you get in more rural areas generally the dealers will treat you better because they've got a smaller market in the big city they can rip everybody off but in smaller places if they get a bad reputation that's going to be it for their business so a lot of times it pays to go out i remember people in houston they used to drive way up north of town go to conroe texas buy vehicles there and they'd save thousands now you can see it's got excellent backup camera flickers because i'm shooting it with a camera but it doesn't flicker for your eyes you can turn the traction control on or off look at the space in the back there's a lot of room in these things and it's all electronic four-wheel drive so you can go two-wheel high four-wheel high four-wheel low that's it we are talking really simple and the dash tells you what's happening if you forget gee i wonder if i'm in four high or i wonder if i'm in four low oh i wonder if i'm just two wheel drive of course it's got various drive modes normal tow mountains crawl if you're gonna do some rock crawling and check out the center console man there's all kinds of room and there's also all kinds of charging and this isn't just some basic rear window here check it out not just a little piece the whole window opens up and it closes not just the slide much more impressive i'm not a fan favorite for me but you got no choice got electric parking brake that's just how they're all going you'll hear that if you idle too long you don't damage the car don't warn you if you idle for an hour to shut itself off you can bypass it by pushing a button too but not a bad idea turbos aren't made for just sitting in the idling forever this is a brand new truck as you can see it's only got 597 miles on it he has had no problems yet now the early ones had problems with turbochargers right but this is a brand brand new one he just got it's got 597 miles we'll see if toyota has fixed those problems as time goes on he lives three blocks down the street and i eat at his tacos stand all the time so i'd keep asking him okay what's happening are you having any problems with it i'm assuming toyota to fix that problem we'll find out over time and if it does believe me he'll tell me and i will tell everyone else so let's take it for spin it's a big truck high up in here does have a smooth ride smooth shifting you certainly feel like a king of the road driving this thing around crisp handling for a pickup truck we'll take it out to our little drag strip here and we'll see what this 389 horsepower can do on a straight road and normal driving there we go the turbos are kicking in [Music] it's got plenty of acceleration although i do have to say the shifts they weren't that smooth a lot of people complain about that they want to get the best gas mileage possible but to me it wasn't crisp enough now you can of course shift it yourself okay we'll put it down a couple gears we'll put in third gear step on it [Music] that's quite a bit better so really if you want to drive like a maniac shift it manually as you can see we're now in 10th gear you got 10 gears you can mess with up or down so realizing it's got a 10-speed transmission but it's still only averaging 21. to me that's kind of a disappointment because i've driven big fords that had 10-speed transmissions they got in the upper 20s some of them so mind you it is a toyota it'll probably last forever if you take care of it i still like the v8s better the grunt the noise the acceleration this may have twin turbos but with that 10-speed transmission the old 57 v8s had more pickup and that just shows you that torque rating can be misleading because this has quite a bit more torque than the v8 but it doesn't feel that way see i didn't put the turn signal i went over the line and do it so it's warning me obviously that system works it's warning me it's warning warning you're driving like an idiot because just driving around it runs smoothly silk you're just gonna find if you're perfectionist like me any 10-speed transmission is often going to have a little gear hunting here and there as it hunts to get the best gas mileage possible that's just how those things are if you don't like that egg you can shift it manually it won't have any and i do have to say the turbos are pretty whisper quiet you can barely hear them kicking on and off yeah as it spools down hardly any noise at all now the man who owns this truck bought it as a business decision because as i said he's going to be pulling this along there's his business he was leasing the far truck they got sick of and they traded the lease and so they did a pretty good deal and when you consider this is a business decision and if this truck lasts as long as the older tundras did it would be a wise business decision he's only six blocks away from me so we're gonna keep in touch and see exactly what happens to this thing as it ages so stay tuned and here's some bonus questions and answers bernie says i got no six ford taurus it won't start it stutters when i turn the key but it won't start put the battery and alternator autozone they said both are good what could it be it's the battery and alternator if the battery an alternator okay probably a bad starter the starter will stutter when it's wearing out it won't crank correctly now of course i don't know what you mean by stutter now if the engine spins over normal if it does the normal no no no no no no no it sounds normal the start is working then you have another problem you can watch my video fixing the car that cranks but doesn't start up and you can find everything that could possibly be but knowing fords a very simple thing to do is take the air filter out have somebody spray star and fluid if they spray it in and it runs fine until they stop spraying and it dies you probably need a fuel pump but like i say my video fixing a car that cranks what doesn't start up on youtube on the scotty kilmer channel it'll show you every possible thing it can do but with a little starting fluid it could easily just be a bad fuel pump it's an o6 it's an old tourist and the fuel pumps only last so long so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that bell [Music] you

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Length: 10min 9sec (609 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 02 2022