The rear chrome bumper of the Toyota Tundra is designed insufficiently. It contains no support at its outer 13 inches. Within 8 months I have already replaced one bumper at my cost, and today I just dented the replacement. Both dent incidents happened with parking lot backups going very slowly (less than.5 MPH). There is high probability that even a slight strike to this outer area of the bumper can severely damage the trunk rear fender. Of further surprise, when I replaced the first bumper I found that I could beat the damaged bumper back into place with strikes of a hand rubber mallet. There has got to be something wrong here.. bumpers are not supposed to bend that easily. I have complained to Toyota about the first incident, but I have gotten absolutely no response. With this second incident I am demanding a free replacement bumper. The present bumper design presents a corner collision safety concern.. beware to all.
Thank you for letting me express this complaint.
Bent-Out-Of-Shape.
I have the same complaint about the Tundra bumper, front and rear, both dent and bend like cheap tin.
I understand your problems, however in a major corner accident the bumpers don't do much and you would not dent them if you didn't run into things whilst backing up.
This truck cannot even handle a parking lot. I hate to think of how it would do on a job site, doing real work. Running back and forth to the country club is probably more this model's speed. I just cannot find it within myself to take this model seriously. My neighbor has one of these, and it is having internal engine problems. I cannot understand how people keep clinging to the notion of Toyota products supposedly being so superior.
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