I have purchased 3 vehicles from this dealer (2014 Tundra, 2016 4-Runner, and 2016 Sequoia).
Most, if not all my issues derive around the service department. Seeing that Toyota is offering 2 years of schedule maintenance with purchase, it made sense to me to utilize their service.
The first issue i had was when the Tundra was due for its first oil change. The appointment was actually scheduled well ahead of time by my salesmen. I took the Tundra in when the day came around and had all intentions of waiting for my truck while the oil change was being done. When i advised them that i would be waiting for the vehicle, they told me the work would take between 3 and 4 hours. When asked why the oil change was so long, their response was that they book 8 appointments an hour plus have to work on walk-ins. I'm not sure how any walk-in should affect my appointment, but i ended up leaving and dropping it off that weekend so my wife could actually pick me up (since I'm outside of the courtesy shuttle area). As far as the oil change actually went, everything seemed fine with the exception being the 4 hour turnaround for a scheduled oil change. This is the same issue every time i took the truck in for scheduled maintenance and basically had to pick days when i had a ride back home.
A few months back, i had noticed the truck was starting to shimmy a little. A quick visual inspection showed that the tires may have been wearing a little uneven, so i decided to take it to Discount Tire, since i was closer so that they could take a quick look before it was taken in for its next scheduled maintenance, which was a week or two later. When Discount Tire took a look, and gauged the tires, 3 out of the 4 tires had worn so badly, that they wouldn't even balance the tires or align the truck. They recommended 4 new tires and an alignment to fix the issue. Thinking that Discount may just be trying to sell me something, i took the truck to D&D wheels (off a friends recommendation). Sure enough, they had the same conclusion and stated the wheels were all bad due to a bad alignment. I also asked at both places, if the tires could have gotten that bad since the last oil change (which had been done at Toyota and supposedly the tires were completely even). At both establishments, they agreed that even with the bad alignment, there was no possible way that the tires could have worn that badly uneven.
Given that the two tire and alignment specialist agreed that this was something that A) Should have been noticed and B) Didn't happen in between service; i decided to take it over to Toyota, explain what was happening and what the two other shops has told me, and give them a chance to resolve the issue. Once at Toyota, i was spoke with a few service writers about the issue, which they appeared to be dumb-founded that this had happened. One finally came outside to the truck and measured the wear with a tire gauge. He agreed, yeah, those tires are wearing pretty badly uneven. Then he passed me over to another service-writer who "owns a Tundra,' as well, so he can speak more intelligently on it. We talked for a few minutes, and i agreed to leave it so the technicians could look at it to verify there wasn't anything major mechanically wrong with the truck. A few hours later, i received a call back, stating that it was in fact, a bad alignment and they too were recommending a new set of tires and an alignment and proceeded to ask me what i wanted to do.
I told them, i want you (Toyota) to take care of it. I have all my maintenance records of the vehicle being serviced from the dealership and paperwork stating that this truck has always had even tread wear and no issues. I also have two independent shops stating that the level of wear that the tires had, would not happen in the amount of time since the truck was last worked on. I was then told, he would have to speak to the service manager and see what he wanted to do with the issue. A little while later, i was contacted by a gentlemen claiming to be the service manager. He said he had been told a little about the issues, we talked a little more about it and i basically told him again everything that had happened. He apologized for everything and said he would leave the decision on what they were going to do in the service writers hands.
About another hour later, i received a call from the service-writer, stating that he had spoke to the manage after he contacted me, and asked me what i wanted to do. I asked, what exactly they were willing to do for the truck. He told me, that they were not accepting any responsibility for the issue at hand, and stated that the uneven wear could happen in as little as 500 miles (which, in 2 other shops opinions, would not be the case). He told me that they could sell me, 4 new tires and get the alignment down in a few days and that they could discount the alignment by $30, no discount on the tires. I ended up going to D&D again and had the work done. read more