As a current 150 owner and gen1 tundra owner I have lived with both the tundra and a domestic. in 3 years the f150 has required dashboard removal and will soon be going back for an antifreeze leak, and has a pesky power window switch. It has already needed a minor alignment. I’ve noted that many parts on the Ford are plastic.
i was the third owner of our tundra, and we all towed with it. After it hit 125k it had a few issues with wheel bearings, but we towed more with it than it should have really seen, so I don’t fault the truck for that. It was used hard. I think the only ”fix” it needed was torn door speaker cones and valve cover gaskets. I loved how the entire rear window would roll down. It was a really fun truck, except the TRD package would beat you up after a while on the interstate. Gas mileage was roughly 18 before I raised the front 1” and went to a 32” tire. Then the mpg was 16 regardless of use.
the 07+ was remarkably refined compared to mine. I’ve only driven one, but it was tighter on the interstate than my f150 today, it drove like it was on rails and felt extremely sports-car/precise like. I’m not sure many folks actually test drive these before they talk about them - my one experience behind the wheel suggested the platform had been very well dialed in, and maybe one reason Toyota hasn’t changed it. There was no slop in it at all.
also, the trade in price on my tundra was 2k less than I paid for it, over 50k miles. There’s that.
i was the third owner of our tundra, and we all towed with it. After it hit 125k it had a few issues with wheel bearings, but we towed more with it than it should have really seen, so I don’t fault the truck for that. It was used hard. I think the only ”fix” it needed was torn door speaker cones and valve cover gaskets. I loved how the entire rear window would roll down. It was a really fun truck, except the TRD package would beat you up after a while on the interstate. Gas mileage was roughly 18 before I raised the front 1” and went to a 32” tire. Then the mpg was 16 regardless of use.
the 07+ was remarkably refined compared to mine. I’ve only driven one, but it was tighter on the interstate than my f150 today, it drove like it was on rails and felt extremely sports-car/precise like. I’m not sure many folks actually test drive these before they talk about them - my one experience behind the wheel suggested the platform had been very well dialed in, and maybe one reason Toyota hasn’t changed it. There was no slop in it at all.
also, the trade in price on my tundra was 2k less than I paid for it, over 50k miles. There’s that.