2023 Toyota Tundra · symptom sheet
Transmission shudders, slips or shifts hard
- 36owner reports
- 18,000median miles
- 1involved a crash
Newest report Aug 14, 2026 · checked Oct 2, 2026
85 of the 407 complaints on this car are about the transmission and drivetrain. 36 of those describe transmission shudder.
Narrower sheets: Transmission hesitates when accelerating (31 reports)
Tick what matches of 36 reports
Transmission shudder on other Tundra years
Report counts are for each model year on its own, so a newer car has had less time to collect them. Model years with too few reports of it for a sheet: 2016, 2018, 2025, 2026.
What this problem usually is
This is the biggest drivetrain group on the site: a transmission that shudders, slips, hesitates or bangs into gear. It's the everyday version of transmission trouble, where the car still drives but doesn't drive right, and it has three narrower sheets of its own for jerking, hesitation and slipping.
What got replaced
Few of these reports name the part that was replaced.
Recalls and investigations
One recall on the transmission and drivetrain covers the 2023 model year. A recall on the same system isn't always the same failure, so read the defect text.
Unexpected vehicle movement may occur when the vehicle is in neutral and the brakes are not applied.
All 13 recalls on the 2023 Toyota Tundra, with the owner complaints on each recalled system
When it happens
Too few of these reports state a mileage to give a range.
Is this a known problem?
The manufacturer has sent NHTSA 3 service bulletins or notices for the 2023 Toyota Tundra that deal with this problem. Newest first.
Federal rules make a manufacturer send NHTSA a copy of any notice about a defect that goes to more than one dealer or owner. Most of these are service bulletins, the repair instructions manufacturers send to dealers. NHTSA generally leaves safety recall bulletins out of this file, and recalls are listed separately.
Some customers of 2022 – 2026 model year Tundra vehicles equipped with specifically non-hybrid V35A-FTS engines may experience one or more of the following drivability related concerns: • Hesitation from a rolling stop. • Hesitation from a quick stop.
Some 2022 ? 2023 model year Tundra vehicles may exhibit one or more of the following drivability-related conditions: ?Hesitation from a complete or rolling stop (worse when vehicle is cold).
Some 2022 ? 2023 model year Tundra vehicles may exhibit a loud pop/clunk noise, coming from under the vehicle, on initial engine start. This condition typically occurs after the engine hasn?t been started for an extended period.
What owners wrote
“Over the course of ownership I have had frequent instances of loss of power and/or lack of acceleration resulting in almost stalling out while trying to take off. This causes dangerous situations when trying to pull out into traffic because you never know when the vehicle might hesitate and crest unsafe distances between you and other moving vehicles.”
Filed Nov 25, 2025
“Hesitation when trying to accelerate. When I start my truck in the morning And hit the gas thereâs a hesitation before it will move and When I come to a stop sign and hit the gas thereâs always a hesitation. When the truck finally starts to move it jumps quickly forward from pressing down on the gas pedal and itâs almost caused me to rear end someone multiple times.”
Filed May 30, 2025
“Hesitation when trying to accelerate. When I come to a stop sign and hit the gas, thereâs always a hesitation”
Filed Feb 19, 2025
“Hesitation From Stop and Surge Concerns. this may cause traffic surge, collison in my front for having no control of the speed if I end up pressing the gas all the way which it cause a quick surge of speed, due to the hesitation when pressing the gas, this happened to my car for a lot of times now which I ignored it until I saw the help from the Toyota Tundra forum, that I can actually send a report to NHTSA.”
Filed Feb 18, 2025
Should you keep driving it?
This page can't tell you that. 1 of 36 reports involved a crash and 1 people were hurt. Owners who file are the ones who had a bad experience, and nobody checks their reports. If the problem affects steering, braking, power or a fire risk, treat it as a safety fault and have it inspected before a long or high-speed drive.
File your own report with NHTSA. Complaint counts are how a problem gets an investigation. How reports land on this sheet.
Guide Paid for this repair before a recall covered it? How recall reimbursement works
Other problems on this car
- Engine stalls or loses power while driving 82 reports
- Engine failure, knocking or rod bearing 59 reports
- Delay or no response when I press the gas 43 reports
- Brakes grind, pulse or wear early 30 reports