Recent content by Gunnison

Sorry I'm a little late to this, I've taken a hiatus on a mountaintop that my Accord got me to cuz my 4Runner had these issues. Instances of overheating have happened both off-road (switched to 4L) and on-road (switched to manual 2S). Transmission Shifter Position: "4HI" (off-road) and “D”...

Clay doesn't appear to be driving up a mountain.

Don't need it though and can't use it on-road

Yea it's just challenging cuz I am not sure how many people are actually taking these things off road up mountains (yet, I know the 6th gen just came out). I got the same response from the dealer and Toyota to put it in S mode or 4L, I will say at least my dealer seems to actually care and...

And I assume the one the dealer created was assigned an official TAS case number and assigned to a TAS agent? At least then even though they gave you a bunch of BS it is officially logged. I have no idea what Toyota will do once they have more of these cases but maybe they will pay more...

Was it case you opened with Toyota or a case the dealer opened with Toyota?

Just took the 4Runner up a mountain on a narrow, paved road and the tranny temps started going up again so I put it in S mode (S2) which helped though it still got a little warm. I was going around 15- 20 mph (it was a narrow winding mountain road, so I wanted to avoid any head-on collisions)...

I have Toyo AT3s on my 4Runner, around 30 pounds each and no extra additional weight.

mine is hybrid

I was in 4H on a gravel mountain road, not rock crawling, going around 15-20 mph with intermittent slowing down for rocks and other stuff.

Yea I don't need to be driving that slow the whole way, I should be able to make it up a hill in 4H without having to switch back and forth between 4H and 4L every time I slow down for a rock

I was wondering if it was happening in the Land Cruiser, sorry you are experiencing it too. Yea, I know it can be a pain in the butt but taking it to the dealership and making sure they find it in the ROB and they file a case with Toyota seems to be the official way Toyota will keep a log of...

That too. Knock on wood ours hasn't had that.

Yea until they fix this transmission issue we have in the 6th Gen and the Tacomas I won't be totally happy

We got the OR Hybrid just so it could go a bit further and we wouldn't have to carry gas cans. We did the Pony Express trail in Utah and Nevada - total distance between gas stations was 343 miles and we probably would have made it but we went out of the way and got gas just to be cautious.