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2003 Toyota Tundra Review, Down On Tundra, From Denver CO
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Toyota Tundra SR5 Access Cab 4X V8 RTD
| | Model | Toyota Tundra SR5 Access Cab 4X V8 RTD | | | What things have gone wrong with the car? | A miserable vehicle on long drives due to the terrible bench seat with not support or adjustments. Breaks are OK but lack feel with the ABS and rear drums. A $30000 vehicle realy should have 4 wheel disks. Gas miliage is very poor. 11-12 in town, 15 highway. | | | General comments? | Don??™t buy the bench seat! It is horrible for anything except a trip to the corner store. In the short test ride I took before purchase, I never noticed how CHEAP the seats were on the 03 Tundra. On a six hour trip I discovered this major shortcoming. After about an hour of driving, my lower back was starting to hurt and my butt was going numb. The seat has very poor lower body support and is too flat and too low for a six-footer. Even with the seat slid back all the way my knees seem high in the air and none of my weight is supported on the backs of my legs. After a while I feel the slight but constant pressure of slowly sliding forward. The seat back has no lower back support and no lumbar adjustment. The seat back also has limited back angle adjustments (too much angle change between clicks). There was really only one seat back position that worked for me without being too upright or laid back, combine that with the need to fully extend the seat on it??™s tracks, and one realizes the seat actually has no adjustment at all (for me) to help reposition your body on long trips. I was miserable at the end of my six hour trip, and even worse on the return trip home. Had I not been driving the new truck out of town for a week of work, I would certainly have returned it to the dealer under the buyer??™s remorse period.
This has totally ruined an otherwise great truck.
One more thing. The rear seats are totally useless for anything except a few cubic feet of luggage space. There isn??™t even room for hanging cloths. |
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