- A Toyota Tundra owner has reportedly racked up almost 900,000 miles in about six years.
- The figures required for it to accomplish that task include approximately $150,000 in fuel costs.
- Evidently, it’s on the original engine and hasn’t needed much in the way of major maintenance.
Trucks are supposed to be rugged and dependable but few make it past 200,000 miles (~321,000 km) without serious repairs. According to one poster online, a 2019 Toyota Tundra has managed almost five times that in about six years. It’s evidently done so on the original engine and is still going strong.
The post comes to us from Reddit, where images show the dash of a Tundra with 878,987 miles (~1,415,000 km) on the odometer. There’s no clear way to confirm the model year it is but the dash does match those found in the 2019 edition. That lends credence to the poster’s comments.
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“2019 Toyota Tundra pushing almost 900,000 miles and always serviced at a local Toyota dealership,” they say. For the sake of argument, let’s just say that this truck rolled into its owner’s home during April of 2018 as a 2019 model. That’s technically possible and would make it at most six years, one month, and one week old. With those figures in mind, we can reveal just how utterly bananas the life of this truck has been in a best-case scenario.
The crazy math numbers
Over the course of the 73 months since April 2018, this truck has traveled at least 12,040 miles (19,377 km) each month on average. That breaks down to approximately 2,800 miles (4,506 km) each week or about 400 miles (644 km) every day for 73 months. Somehow, it can get wilder than that. On average, it’s traveled 16 miles (26 km) for every hour since April 2018.
What does that look like in terms of fuel costs over the time and mileage? According to the original poster, the engine is Toyota’s 5.7-liter i-Force MAX V8. The EPA says that the rear-wheel drive version of that Tundra gets up to 13 mpg in the city, 18 mpg on the highway, and 15 mpg combined.
Factoring in an arbitrary estimate that 95 percent of the miles on this truck were completed on the highway, it would mean that the owner has bought roughly 49,770 gallons of fuel. At $3.03 per gallon, the average gas price over the last six years, that’s $150,803 in fuel alone.
Keep in mind that all of these figures are in the scenario where it was one of the very first production deliveries. It’s far more likely that it sold sometime after that and in that case, every figure here gets even more impressive.
What sort of maintenance history does a truck with almost 900,000 miles on it in under seven years have? In this case, a short one aside from oil changes. The original poster says that it needed a new gearbox at around 500,000 miles (805,000 km) and over time has had a few wheel bearings replaced.
Beyond that, they report no major repairs. That’s right, this is the original engine, they say. That’s remarkable all by itself even if it had taken 20 more years to reach this mileage figure. The fact that it’s reportedly done so in such a short time is just hard to fathom. It’s unclear exactly why this truck racks up the miles that it does but clearly, it’s perfectly happy to keep doing so.
