Off-road targeted vans are massive enterprise and Toyota is seeking to money in with a brand new elevate package for the redesigned Tundra.
Obtainable as a dealer-installed possibility, the TRD elevate package prices $3,995 and contains taller entrance coil springs, new Bilstein shocks, and Roush higher management arms. Patrons may also discover new decrease entrance knuckles, stabilizer hyperlinks, entrance bump stops, and rear spring spacers. They’re joined by prolonged entrance drive shafts and longer brake flex hoses – amongst different issues.
Due to the modifications, the entrance is lifted 3 inches (76 mm) whereas the rear finish climbs 2 inches (51 mm). Floor clearance additionally improves by 2.6 inches (66 mm), whereas strategy and departure angles go from 21 and 24 levels to 26 and 25 levels.
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Sadly for the DIY crowd, the elevate package is “solely obtainable for supplier set up.” Toyota additionally famous the $3,995 price ticket doesn’t embrace set up, so homeowners can anticipate to shell out much more.
On the intense facet, the elevate might be put in on 2022 and newer Tundras with four-wheel drive and both the i-FORCE or i-FORCE Max powertrain. Nevertheless, it’s not suitable with TRD Professional or TRD Sport variants, nor fashions with an adaptive variable suspension or air suspension.
The elevate package comes with a guaranty and is suitable with the Toyota Security Sense suite of driver help methods. The latter is notable as TRD principal engineer Mikhal el Arculli defined, “There are numerous compromises with aftermarket elevate kits, a few of which might impression the operate of car options or security methods.”