TRD Creates New Elevate Equipment for Toyota Tundra

OEM automobile mods are nice. First, they’re normally lined underneath a guaranty (though learn the superb print like “so long as it’s seller put in). You additionally don’t have to fret in regards to the danger of voiding your automobile guarantee. Plus, you will get them put in at a seller, which once more, helps with the guarantee. And with the latest explosion of fanatic automobiles coming to market, automakers have been giving these clients a option to get precisely what they need. Equivalent to Toyota, who’s sometimes nice with mod availability, and simply dropped a brand new carry package from TRD for the not too long ago redesigned Tundra.

The carry package, developed by TRD, is distinctive in that Toyota says it was engineered to work along side Toyota’s security suite: Toyota Security Sense. With out the event, the system might get confused with the upper middle of gravity.

The carry package has every little thing you’d anticipate it to wish, like purple coil springs tuned by TRD, Bilstein monotube shocks, and higher management arms sourced from Roush Efficiency out of Detroit. In all, there are 11 distinctive elements within the package:

• Bilstein entrance & rear shocks
• Taller entrance coil springs
• Roush cast higher management arms
• Entrance decrease knuckles
• Entrance stabilizer hyperlinks
• Entrance outer tie rods
• Entrance tie rod sleeves
• Entrance prolonged drive shafts
• Entrance bump stops
• Prolonged brake flex hoses
• Rear spring spacers

Collectively, the package raises the Tundra 2.6 inches (however Toyota likes to name it a three-inch carry, for advertising). This can be a two-inch carry, with leveling. If that’s not that spectacular sufficient — the package additionally helps with off-road efficiency. The Tundra’s strategy and departure angles improve, with the strategy angle rising 5 levels from 21.0 to 26.0; the departure angle rising only one diploma from 24.0 to 25.0.

In case you’ve acquired a 2022 mannequin yr or newer Tundra, and need to carry it, you possibly can contact your native Toyota seller, as that’s the one place the package may be put in. Excluding set up and labor, the package prices $3,995 and comes with a 3-year/36,000-mile guarantee. However that guarantee solely applies if the package is put in earlier than or on the time of the sale of the automobile. If you buy the package after you bought your new Tundra, the guarantee protection drops to only 12 months.

However wait. The package isn’t out there on each 2022 or newer Tundra mannequin. It’s solely out there for these fashions with the iForce or iForce-Max engines, four-wheel drive, and the 5.5 or 6.5-foot beds. Meaning no TRD Professional, TRD Sport, or Tundras that come outfitted with the elective Adaptive Variable Suspension or air suspension setups.