Towing with 2022 Toyota Tundra Limited i-Force Twin-Turbo V6 (Tow Test 4/4)

all right now let's hop in the 2022 toyota tundra this guy it's got the new 3.5 liter v6 made it a 10-speed transmission this is a new powertrain for toyota and i'm really curious how this works towing with the camper so let's hook it up let's get going [Music] i have a cap for that as well i'm doing 87 octane per the manual and it's mostly full i filled it up the other day so it should be pretty full but just want to top it off reset the odometer to make sure we get the as accurate as we possibly can on this pump um for the towing test yeah that's what we're doing you can see my breath hold this morning so i always go to the click right there boom okay let's reset the odometer and let's get on the road okay so i'm gonna go and hit the odometer button there's our odometer there's our trip see it down below and i reset that and i reset this up top too so we have zero zeros and so let me zoom in for a second see that on the screen zero zero so ready to go let's go hook up the trailer and get on the road okay let's see what kind of squat we're gonna get this is before i hooked it up so gonna eyeball it at say 55 looks like about 55 right there so go ahead and hook it up and see how much it squats after i connect the trailer to it yes exciting times and why is it so freaking cold every morning i do this okay i got the hitch on the ball that's done i'll have to finish hooking it up but i want to show the squat because it did go down quite a bit so tape measure it dropped an inch and a half and that looks about right when i stand back look at it looks like it did drop okay back in the truck let's go ahead and start it up and see what it says on the screen all right so it's loading up all right so it says trailer detected so you don't want park sensors and you don't want rear cross traffic alert right so that's a good thing now i have this set up already for camper i've been playing around with it but what i did was if i go in here and go to edit i can you can select your edit trailer they have added new trailers all presets here okay or i can go back here and i can deselect or i can edit a trailer i want to go in the edit trailer i have a set for camper and uh you can change the ball the hitch type the length the axles and the brake towing how much uh you know electric how many pounds the trailer is so i'm gonna save all that okay trailer saved and then there's a button here this is for the backup this truck will back itself up you go through the settings it's really good when you're backing up to like campground or into a boat dock if you're going straight backwards and so i'll show you that in different video i don't i'm gonna do mop again i don't wanna play with too much today i'm gonna press the drive mode button let me get out of this screen and i'm gonna go you can see tow haul is selected right there but there's two out of there's two settings here there's a tow plus and a tow haul all i did was i just turned this dial back and forth and back and forth and i believe if i remember right from the talk we had at the driving event uh tow hall plus is for over 5000 pounds and tow haul is for like under 5 000 pounds the trailer gross speaker weight is 6 000 pounds um if it was fully loaded dry weights like 4 700 pounds so i'm kind of right in the middle i'm gonna go with the higher toe hall and just give it a shot and then for trailer gain i have the create controller over here and you can press up or down and go back and forth in games on or you can add more when you need to right here so i like it right in the middle it goes from zero to ten i like it right at five kind of halfway point just seems like it works well for me but that's kind of a personal preference so i'm loaded up and at 33 degrees i'm just gonna have to go with it still waiting for the sun to come out a little bit so we'll be around around the temperature range of the other trailers i'm towing shouldn't matter too much let's go and get on the road okay let's go ahead and see what it does off the line i'm not gonna gun it gun it but let's get some let's get some motivation and there we go yeah it pulls that just fine so no concerns there with the uh offline speed um i'm 45 miles an hour is my max right in here anyways so i'm going to get down the road we'll do about 55 get over the wildcat hills again like we've done other videos and uh we'll get out and i'll show you up the hill and i'll talk to you about going back towards the back side showing the gauges and then we'll get back to gas station get to and fill up so let's go and get down the road all right here we go we're going around the bend he's coming around the mountain when she comes oh hey uh we're going around the bend here and we're going to turn and then we go up the wildcat hills to the top so like i said the intro three to four percent or degree 34 degree up slope on i don't know a mile or so so uh pretty typical for my area lots of flat areas plus the uh bluffs that we go around and we live in the valley at the bluffs valley that's how that works folks um let's say we're doing what if i slow down i'm doing about 55 miles an hour uh this engine wants to go like i keep having to slow it down i'm doing uh 2000 rpms i'm in sixth gear or i was in sixth gear uh so because i just flipped it over to see what gear i was in i'll come around the corner a little more and i'll do a i'll have a sound test too i'll have in this vehicle too as we're going to the top so you can see how noisy it gets in the cabin but overall the cabin's pretty quiet it's not that big a deal so we downshift we're in fifth gear 2500 rpms still doing 55 miles an hour and uh you know it almost feels like there's not much behind me i don't feel much weight behind me this thing's pulling really good really impressed with the pulling and toyota says that their hybrid version of this airforce max even tows better than this truck this engine does but i don't i don't know a lot of a lot of extra money for a vehicle that or truck tows better this toe is just fine so i can't really make the case to why i would get the hybrid over this one and i will do a comparison towing with the hybrid gas when i get the hybrid in to review i haven't shifted yet i'm still at 2000 this is the tough part right here oh this downshifted not quite to 3000 rpms yeah i got a whole lot of nothing nothing surprising the only thing i don't like about this truck um on with the towing is because it's got the digital or analog gauges and not the digital ones i can't get the transmission temperature on these analog gauges i wish they changed that i'd like to see it while i'm towing and the digital one you can it's a it's a little uh display but according to the owner's manual i read as of today i cannot get it here we go went over the top i'm coasting on the back side and it's already downshifting already so wow a whole lot of nothing there that was that's pretty impressive let's go ahead and get down the road turn around my 25 mile spot and then we'll uh head back [Music] okay let's interrupt this video a little bit to do our sound check i'm gonna stop talking i'm in a flat section before the wildcat hill i got it right around like 65 to 66 decibels uh and that's again on the flat portion doing 65 miles an hour at 2 000 rpms i'll get to that very tough the the toughest section and uh we will see what it looks like up there all right here we have the toughest part of this test i just downshifted trying to hold 55 miles an hour and this is probably the loudest yeah right around 68 decibels so just went up a couple decibels going up the hill which really isn't that much when you think about uh the gain of elevation we're getting and how much we're putting into that as far as the engine as far as power right so uh not very bad at all and frankly it's pretty quiet in here that's nice slowing down to make the turn at the halfway point my tripadometer says 9.2 mile per gallon at the halfway point which would be pretty good actually um no problems towing i'm just cruising so let me uh do the u-turn here and let's see if it turns yeah people making a big deal about turning radius to tundra because by the spec it's worse than prior generation however the prior generation and hydraulic power steering this says electric power steering so it's a net wash i don't have any problems with steering on this so uh anyways turning around and we are heading back over top and i'll get the camera down and show you the gauge as we go over top of the walk-in hills all right here we go here starts to climb we're in fifth gear i just double checked it we're going up top the hill here on the back side so that's sixth gear so when it it's it gets about 3000 rpms about that skier one thing i want to talk about is how good these mirrors are i can get them down i can only see the bottom of the trailer in the mirror just a good size and i really like them i can see them being maybe too big for petite drivers but for me uh yeah really a fan of that uh it's at 50 degrees right now is where the outside temperature shows so it's warmed up quite a bit so we started doing this test uh 10.3 is my mile per gallon which is just insane really and so as we go up it should downshift you a little bit as i'm trying to keep it on 55 miles an hour and it's still not wow i still got more in the tank i mean i the throttle is not even my foot's time all the way down the floor for the acceleration not even close it hasn't shifted yet that is impressive so we're getting close to the top here and uh still waiting for the shift holding right at 55 2000 rpms i gotta double check this yeah so that was fifth that should so i do manual mode it shifts up so i was fifth so it shipped back down to sixth so it is doing this whole thing without shifting all the way to top of the hill i'm yeah i'm surprised it hasn't shifted yet again we have a 10-speed transmission but usually touhou mode locks out some of the gear so you can actually use the torque and the right gearing is what the plan is you go too high in speeds and then you lose torque when you're towing it downshifted so now now we're in seventh must be about seventh gear and downshift at the top so huh and now we're top so let me flip the camera around okay we're at the top and we're gonna start going down the descent so i thought it'd be interesting to kind of walk you through how this looks as far as our talk ptosis should be say more correctly we're at uh doing 50 miles an hour just kind of coasting here so i'm going to see if it gets up to 6 55. sorry i got a little uh it's my eyeball so we're at 54 53. now we're at 55 and i have my foot off the brake and the gas not touching anything i'm just coasting down the hill we're getting a little bit of speed so i'm going to tap my brake a little bit and slow us down to 55 i don't have cruise control on and i just downshifted so now uh the what's nice is the engine and the transmission working together to hold me at that speed and kind of keep me from running away right so now i'm getting close to 60 if i hit my hit my brakes again slow back down to 55 and now it downshifted again to hold me at like 50 52 in that range and so we're nearly the bottom and we're at the bottom so i'm going to hit the gas a little bit i'm now doing 45 so downshifted and it downshifted again so i'm back in that sweet spot that that sixth gear likely and i'm doing 55 miles an hour so that's going down the hill again i didn't feel like i was i'm stressed a lot fatigued at all it pulled really well so i'm gonna get back to the house i'm gonna unhook it go get gas and i'll give you the final mop gallon but right now the screen says 10.4 map gallon and if i missed to say it um it did warm up to 52 degrees so it has warmed up during this test so it's pretty consistent with the other temperatures i've done on this channel and on the actually on this video okay so put that in there 87 octane again and we'll start filling it up so the computer in size is 11.1 mile per gallon that's pretty crazy for a gasoline engine that doesn't have a hybrid hybrid yes hybrid powertrain to it so um let's see how many gallons we're gonna use i'm gonna go to click again this gas station i will tell you is a little suspect at times um this week's last couple weeks it's been spot on but i've done these towing tests and it keeps giving me weird numbers what should we get today okay just clicked so we'll go to the click we have 4.370 gallons used yeah there we go trip a 50.7 miles 11.1 miles per gallon see the screen now i don't really like how toyota does that i want it all on one screen and i have not figured out how to do that one screen so anyways 50.7 divided by three point no excuse me fifty point seven divided by four point three seven is 11.6 miles per gallon so 11.6 on my calculator and 11.1 on the screen so that's actually pretty damn accurate um half a half gallon off that's that's really good this like i said this pump and these trucks have been giving me all sorts of weird things lately but this one's spot on so you know i gotta say overall i think this truck did pretty darn good 11 miles per gallon uh toad no problem acceleration was fine braking was good felt really stable i never talked about sway control at all because it was a really stable ride uh not much wind today again it says 45 now it's sort of like 40 degrees outside with the 52 on this screen 45 i think it's probably more accurate those outside temperature gauges tend to fluctuate a little bit but yeah i'm pretty happy with this overall towing let's put your comments down below you know look for your feedback other videos over here we have full comparisons truck versus truck those are all coming out really good stuff i want to pay attention to website down below as always thanks for watching i'll see you down the road [Music]

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Length: 15min 35sec (935 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 20 2022