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I have a 22 Tundra SR5. The dealer also installed a lift leveler kit with new tires. So out the door it's about a $75,000 truck. Within a thousand miles as I had the first loss of power. It was a new truck and I really didn't think a lot about it because I was able to turn it off and turn it back on again. It drove home fine and didn't do anything else but I mentioned it to the dealer when I went in because I was having some other issues with data and they replaced the antenna and said that it was all the same issue. Right around 12,000, mi. I had been idling in a parking lot for a while talking to my daughter. I left and got on the highway and as soon as I get up to 70 mph it said power failure and then asked me if I wanted to conduct an emergency stop. I was able to do the same thing, turn it off and turn it back on after putting it in neutral of course and just keep on driving. I figured it was a glitch because if you're familiar with the tundra in 22, it's full of glitches and it does all kinds of dangerous things that they're not even complaining about yet! But I just thought it still drove strong and it didn't any misfire or do anything crazy and it still felt strong. Just recently I was on highway 81 in Virginia. It had rained earlier that day and I was just getting on the exit yet again after idling in a parking lot talking to my daughter. I had reached 70 mph and this time it said loss of power, lost A Turbo, lost a breaks I think and went into a limp mode. In a limp mode you have limited steering. You have limited brakes in. The engine is still running but if you gave it gas it won't accelerate. I immediately put on my four ways, I'm on a downhill surrounded by trucks with red hot brakes and we're just now ready to go uphill. I'm in the left hand lane because all the trucks are in the right hand Lane. I don't have any accelerator very limited brakes and very limited steering but luckily the four ways worked and the windows work and I was able to flag down a trucker and let him know that I needed to get over and it was emergency. He let me over and this time on the side of the road I shut the truck off thinking it would start back up except it did not. It kept telling me to contact the dealer and would do nothing. Knowing how finicky this thing is I got out of the truck, walked away from it with the fob and kind of just blew off some steam for a few minutes and then came back to the truck and it started right up. I live in Florida and I'm in Virginia on the side of the road starting this truck back up and it's now knocking and not running right. I was able to shut it off again and it started right back up and seemed like it was running a little better so I just drove it back to where I was staying. I contacted a couple dealers and a local dealer but it was right around Christmas time and it seemed just as easy to get back home as it did to get to a dealer and it was running good again. Back home at the dealer. They looked at it and supposedly there is a software upgrade to fix this and they did that. The antenna didn't work the first time and I'm pretty sure the software upgrade's not going to work either. I'm not as worried as most people cuz I have 150,000 mile extended warranty. I didn't plan on using it probably at all but now I'm stuck with the truck that is totally lost its value and worse than that nobody wants it including me. I purchased it as a truck that was supposed to last me the rest of my lifetime, I'm 60 years old and the last 4Runner I had last ed 12 years $255,000 mi and the only thing I did was put tires on it so that's what I expect out of Toyota. Toyota, I'm not happy at all with my purchase and the dealer doesn't seem the one even back up their sale or even try to make an effort to tell you the truth about what's going on. So I'm looking at different brands and hoping to get out of my truck but honestly I need to go straight to Toyota then and they need to make it right! I filed a complaint with the national traffic Etc. It's posted online. You can read about it but the other is you at the dealer was very same. Problems occur with every one of them. But now if you're an owner of a 22 Toyota Tundra SR5, look at your tailgate right by your handle. On the bottom left hand side. You'll see that they did not even bother to paint to the handle and it goes straight to the paint. There is a small line on every one of them that I have seen where it is metal. I haven't had a stereo knob fall off in my hand since probably a 1980s vehicle. But yet my 2022 Toyota Tundra and everyone else's the only knob on the whole stereo will fall off in your hands cuz it's broken! They didn't address the fact that my transmission can't find a gear sometimes and chooses the wrong gears. They did say there was an update and performed the software update because I had also complained that sometimes I give the tundra gas to accelerate and it starts to accelerate very slowly and then all of a sudden it's a race car! A good example would be just in resuming the cruise control with a camper on the back. 5,000 lb. On dry pavement on 75 the traffic slowed down. I have radar cruise control so my truck slowed down automatically and then traffic sped up very quickly. My truck started to speed up like it should and obviously it didn't like the way it was accelerating either so it gave itself more gas and next thing you know my rear tire is spinning! With a camper on the back! That supposedly has been fixed with a software upgrade too. It's amazing that they didn't spend any money or any parts at my visit but I did because both of my remote batteries are dead after 2 years! It's still under manufacturer's warranty and an extended warranty, but I paid 18 bucks for my two batteries. They did offer to replace my windshield wiper blades for $75 + labor. My rear tailgate they took pictures of and sent to Toyota to see if they will actually cover it. Course they will cover it. That's the way it came from the factory and if it didn't come from the factory like that the dealer should cover it because there is a time that when you buy a car and you spend 10 minutes in a finance office and they explain to you about the dealer prep fee that you're just paying all this crazy money for and all the inspections and all the cleaning and all the things they do to your car. Or in this case a truck. I want to believe that Toyota is going to take care of this somehow. I am a lifetime Toyota fan. I have owned Toyotas for a very long time and many of them. I didn't expect anything like this and I don't expect to be treated like I'm being treated by the dealership. I don't think the answer is to give us all a new engine and hope that it runs ? I see daily problems with 23s 24s and 25s now. So what are they going to ship me to put in my 22? That is better than what's in there right now? I've lost entirely too much money and I think Toyotas it to me and needs to make this right. I plan on contacting Toyota corporate and letting them know. I don't want to be part of a large lawsuit. I'm not trying to hire an attorney quite yet because I want to give Toyota the opportunity to make it right, but I'm not quite sure what that means. For me for right now they could give me a 2025 with the same options and everything else and that seems fair. But what's to say I'm not going to have the same problem because they're having those same issues too! I do not have a hybrid. I can see where a hybrid would be a lot safer when the vehicle decides to do some of the crazy things that it does. I am retired public Service. I've driven everything from Mac in a fire truck to Ford Chevy's or dges and everything else in ambulance's and police cars. I was a firefighter of a paramedic and a police officer. I've driven many cars at very very high speeds and had some crazy things happened but it didn't worry me so much because I was in control of the car. The other day. What happened to me scares me to get back in my Toyota because I don't know what it's going to do and it takes control and takes the control away from me! It's not scary when it's on the side road or even getting on the highway when there's not anyone on there. But anyone else in the situation that I was in that would have panicked maybe would have died!