I have had this truck for about 4 weeks now. Put almost 1000 miles. I really love the truck but there is something wrong with the stearing. I took it back to the dealer and they did a front end alignment. They said it was off .25. The stearing is still not right. Went back to the dealer on monday and they looked at it again. They let some air out of the tires and told me to put some weight in the bed :doah: Bought 2, 50 pound bags of sand and threw them in the bed.........Still the same. The truck is all over the road. Kinda like driving drunk:laugh: There is about a 1/2 inch play in the stearing wheel. I think there should be none.:no: If you go over some un-even bumps slowly, the stearing wheel moves all over the place. Reminds me of a 67 polaris station wagon I had:laugh::laugh: I did some research on the Toyota forums and it looks like people are complaining of similar problems. (but not on a 2013). Seams to be rack bushings problems.:shrug: When I got home from the mountains on Sunday, I was sea sick:blink: What should I do
They just think I am some stupid women at the dealership:laugh: My POS work truck stears better than this truck. :laugh: They tell me I have to get use to it..........I don't think so.:hammer:
Tell them you want it fixed and this is not how a truck is suposed to handle.
Might be worth while to find another one just like it and take it for a ride just to be sure this is a unique problem to your truck.
Do you have a lemon law in your state?
If there is something wrong and you know it...
If another 2013 does not drive like that I have a couple of options for you.
Park in front of the dealership on the road with a big
4 by 8 sheet that says they sold me a lemon.
Or threaten them with "if you don't fix this thing I'm going to buy 5 gallons of gasoline in a can and the next time you see me it will be lighting this thing up in the center of your car lot...."
Of course don't actually burn it !!!!!
But Toyota has had such a bad run these days, any more bad PR like you could appear to make for them will scare the living shite out of the dealer.
My 2 cents is because you feel play in a brand new front end something is wrong.
I had a paint issue with my 05 Jetta.
Bob the shop foreman knew me and knew once the nuclear option was on the table I would park next to the dealer with a 4 by 8 sheet of plywood that said " they sold me a lemon."
They painted it.
Then they painted it again to my satisfaction ( I did not like the colour match of the fenders they re shot the whole car )....
Don't feel like a woman and even women get the screw because men in a dealership think they will just go away after enough " there, there, and its fine nothing is wrong ".
You paid good money demand satisfaction for your purchase ( but as much as I hate to say it, be sure to drive one even ask a fellow in a parking lot if he would drive yours and you could go for a spin in his to compare, Just be sure they don't all actually drive like that lol )
More NOS drible....
My wife will drive until the front ends falls out of her vehicles.
She's a bus driver and I look at her bus and shale my head because I can see its not right.
But she drives that way because it creeps up on her, busses generally drive like well busses and way down deep inside I know she is a blind mellon tat really does not care.....
But my point here is you get accustomed to a way something handles.
Maybe you have become so accustomed to your last car you don't notice quirks and this truck has a quirk or two that you need to adapt too to drive.
I drive that bus and it feels like a drunk on roller skates.
To the wife its fine, feels fine and she drives in straight lines.
Maybe I just think the bus is bad?
Her van however is fooked needs new struts and ball joint, mechanic said that today....
She did not seem to mind the clunks and odd feel of the front end.
More drible...
Why can I get 5 or 6 years out of a set of brakes?
She burns them off in 3.
SHe has literally burn off a set of pad right in front of me!!!
I can smell the brakes dear.....
The rotors are hot pull over please...
Done talking about the wife now, see she just looks at a car as a way to get there.
I look at it like a depreciating asset.
i don't take it personal