Not my choice, you service what comes in. Sorry to hear about your family, but your evidence is entirely anecdotal and clearly biased. I've worked on enough Toyotas, "Lexus" (a brand created for the sole purpose of selling overpriced Toyotas) and Scions (rebadged Toyotas and a discontinued failure) and they have plenty of interior creaks, groans, rattles, and squeaks. The Tundra's frame is so weak that the bed contacts the cab when driven over rough terrain, yet you're telling me they have no NVH issues? It's simply a ridiculous assertion. The link I posted to one of thousands of posts from a Toyota forum is a great example. Are you insinuating that the concern you posted on this forum F-150 is legitimate, and those posted on the Toyota forum are not?
You're drinking the kool-aid. Toyota vehicles require service and repair just like any other vehicle in existence; they do not have some kind of magical formula for service-free vehicles despite what their brainwashed followers often believe. I've made a lot of money on those people, and they're often so brainwashed that they still buy into the fallacy. All you need to do is look up Tundra/Sequioa/LX570/Land Cruiser (3UR-FE) cam tower oil leaks, low mileage water pump failures, air injection pump failures, camshaft failures (early models), the Tundra/Tacoma/4Runner frame rust lawsuits, the 2ZA-FE oil consumption class action, the 8 speed transmission failures, 3.4 (5VZ-FE) head gasket failures, 2.7 (3RZ-FE) burnt valves, the list goes on for miles. Personally, I've seen more than my share of them in the field. Buying an outdated, cheaply made vehicle based based on the false pretense of "reliability" is simply foolish. To this day, the 2020 4Runner is still using the same 4.0 V6 and 5 speed automatic as it has for 20 years; even the new "lexus" models don't have a touch screen, and instead have a distracting and useless knob to control the infotainment, in what seems to be a throwback to BMW 2 decades ago.
This is the type of company that Toyota is; they cover up defects, deny all wrongdoing, and force consumers into non-disclosure agreements while profiting tens of billions off of the US economy. They lost a class action lawsuit to the tune of $3.4 Billion, and still had this to say:
"Toyota admitted no liability or wrongdoing in the proposed settlement filed on Wednesday before U.S. District Judge Fernando Olguin in Los Angeles."
It speaks volumes. They also tried to blame Dana Corp. for the frames rust issues, but a hole was punched through that theory when it was found that 4Runner frames (built exclusively in Japan) were rusting out just as quickly as Tundra/Taco/Sequoia frames. Toyota supplied the specifications, Dana built the frames to those specs, and they still tried to throw them under the bus because they're an American supplier. That is Japanese business culture.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-toyota-settlement-idUSKBN1370PE
While American companies like Ford are building face masks and face shields to help our country get through the pandemic, Toyota is busy figuring out how to capitalize and profit off of our situation. No red blooded American should ever be complacent with that. It's disgusting.
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