2024 Toyota Tundra · symptom sheet
Transmission shudders, slips or shifts hard
- 33owner reports
- 9,500median miles
- 0involved a crash
Newest report Jun 12, 2026 · checked Oct 2, 2026
84 of the 338 complaints on this car are about the transmission and drivetrain. 33 of those describe transmission shudder.
Narrower sheets: Transmission hesitates when accelerating (28 reports)
Tick what matches of 33 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 2024 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 10 recalls on the 2024 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 1 service bulletin or notice for the 2024 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.
What owners wrote
“There is a severe throttle lag that is random. It has caused near collisions due to the response time. The truck will also randomly jerk forward. I reported it to dealer and they said it was normal and to drive the truck in sport mode. This not a solution and will cause an accident if not resolved soon”
Filed Dec 19, 2025
“When I shift out of N or P into drive there is loud and aggressive clunk. Like the tranny is gonna drop out the bottom! Itâs a tight grip, the shifter doesnât want to move. Potential to run someone in a car park or walking down the sidewalk.”
Filed May 18, 2025
“The vehicle has acceleration hesitation. Sometimes when trying to go from a complete stop the vehicle is almost dead and doesnât move then it feels as if the âclutch was popped â in a manual but it is an automatic.”
Filed May 13, 2025
“Anytime I come to a yield/traffic circle and do not have to come to a complete stop, when I push the accelerator there is a hesitation and then the truck lurches forward. It happens quite often when I slow down to 5mph give or take before accelerating again. I would estimate it has happened 50 times since I have owned the truck which I bought with 300 miles on it.”
Filed May 9, 2025
Should you keep driving it?
This page can't tell you that. 0 of 33 reports involved a crash. 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
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