1 Million Mile Tundra Owner Does it AGAIN

2 different Tundras but this time it is the 5.7L.

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That's amazing! Hoping this is my last vehicle and can last that long.

 

Here’s a link to @testerdahl website for the same story also. Pretty amazing. At this point there has been at least 3 million mile 5.7s I’m pretty sure.

https://pickuptrucktalk.com/2025/04/he-did-it-again-million-mile-tundra-again-for-same-man/

 

i can get there if i dont screw around and take forever. it seems like time is taking more of a toll on my truck then mileage. things are rusting and drying out pretty quick.

 

A rolling stone gathers no moss

 

I think the first one the guy owned had the 4.7L. Still very impressive.

 

Yeah, the other 2 im referring to were not Vic Shephard’s. One was a White 2008 DCLB 5.7 and the other was a silver 2019 5.7 DC.

 

i had a coworker see me pull up last night and saw my tundra, asked me what i think about this. I think its awesome, but it wont happen again. i distinctly remember toyota taking shepherds truck and saying they were gonna study things like the seat, the engine and the bed.... well they sure the fuck did didnt they? they researched it into oblivion and now the new trucks have seats breaking, engine failures, and a fiberglass/plastic bed.

disapointed with toyota and probably wont own another after this

 

Just stick with the V8s.

 

not that ill need it any time soon but I have a DNJ kit on standby with pistons, rings, complete upper and lower gaskets, water pump, and rod and main bearings. ill get a million 1 way or another.

 

They used that analysis to basically see where they overbuilt areas and could cost cut. Which from a business/engineering perspective does make sense. They have no incentive to overbuild a part or component to last 1 million miles. But it sucks for us. I would be very surprised if a 3rd gen made it anywhere that far.

 

As the previous owner of 4 Volvo 240's, and couple of Volvos. The Volvo says "hold my beer". But seriously I have owned several high mileage Volvos, the Tundra is ALOT easier to live with.

 

This sort of publicity goes both ways. Now, they can toot the reliability horn left and right, all while taking more shortcuts in making sure life of their vehicles is 'more reasonable'.


"Hmm, this hinge is too good. Make it plastic next time, and less bolts. Make bolts plastic as well! Actually, no. Plastic clips!"

 

What’s the occupation of the drivers of these high mile/million mile Tundras?

I know a lot of the high mile HD diesel examples are running Hot Shot but, what are these Tundra guys doing?

Mike

 

Same. He works for oil field companies hotshotting parts all over the country. Sounds like a bunch of upper east coast to LA coast runs. Some parts were 2000# plus in the bed. He doesn’t ever mention towing, so all payload in the bed.

 

I wish they would post his maintenance schedule.

I'm willing to bet that he did 10k oil changes and used what ever oil the dealer sold him.

 

And he probably overshot his oil interval a time or two

 

Awesome story !

 

BTW, I'm flying down Friday to do an interview with Vic.

 

I'll have that in the video interview. I figure it would be more believable if, you know, you heard it directly from him.

If all goes according to plan, I should have a video out this weekend.

 

Awesome, thank you for doing the leg work on this.

 

We should throw together some random questions. I’d like to know how often he had to do the brakes, what his trans service intervals looked like and how many miles he got out of a set of tires. Did he notice any reliability differences between the older truck and the current one.. I’m sure there’s more burning questions I have but it’s late and I’m old and tired.

 

Need to ask the million dollar question. Did he put a transmission cooler on the truck?

 

Where can we find this interview once posted? And if you don’t mind, Do us a favor and post a link on this here thread once it’s done for those of us that are a bit forgetful lol (since we’ll get a notification to it that way) thanks so much, thats awesome you get to meet the infamous million mile man that I always tell people about when my truck comes up.

And since we’re suggesting questions here, I’d like to know if he has any maintenance tip/tricks/secrets for us who are also aiming for 1 million.

 

It is on Pickup Truck +SUV Talk YouTube. There’s a link on our website - pickuptrucktalk.com

I’ve known Vic for years now. I wrote the original story.

 

Why would he? His truck came with one. They only took them off in 2019-2021 model years.

 

My bad. I thought this was the 2019 that was mentioned on here a few weeks back that had 900k + miles

 

But did he put a 2nd one on?

 

The engineers learned from it but so did the bean-counters and the bean-counters won in the redesign. I 100% guarantee the flimsiness of the new stuff is not an engineering fault, it's due to pressure on engineering to make it lighter (for mpg) and cheaper. I went from a 2023 to a 2021 and don't miss the nanny crap like auto-start stop which ALWAYS would shut off the truck when I pulled into my driveway, then restart when I shifted into park then I'd turn it off again. It'd always shut off when I got in after remote starting it making me start it again. It'd refuse to let me open the door with my foot on the brake when the car isn't in park. Mostly when I opened the door at a car wash to return the moist rag used to wipe down the interior that they give me before going into the wash. It's the little things I grew to detest, and the payment. I saved $18,000 moving from my 23 limited to a 2021 DC LB SR5 with 70k miles. The features, ride, interior that I lost aren't worth $18k to me.