For consumers with $70,135 (with destination), Toyota will gladly sell you a highly capable Tundra TRD Pro for some serious off-roading. Shoppers that don't want to spend that kind of money or don't want to be limited to the CrewMax body style and five-foot-five-inch bed with the TRD Pro, Toyota now offers the large pickup with a factory lift kit. It was developed by TRD engineers, costs $3,995 (price doesn’t include labor), and can be purchased as a dealer-installed option.
The lift kit includes Bilstein front and rear shocks, taller front coil springs that are painted red, Roush forged upper control arms, and a litany of other components that include rear spring spacers, extended brake flex hoses, front tie rod sleeves, front outer tie rods, front stabilizer links, front lower knucks, front extended drive shafts, and front bump stops. From that list, it looks like shoppers are getting their money’s worth with the kit.
Adding these components to the Tundra adds three inches of height to the truck’s front end, two inches at the rear, and 2.6 inches of ground clearance. Toyota claims that the kit also improves off-roading capability by increasing the truck’s approach angle to 26 degrees (up from 21 degrees) and departure angle to 25 degrees compared to 24. The kit brings similar figures as the TRD Pro, which has a 26.2-degree approach angle and a departure angle of 24.2.
Toyota is offering its lift kit on most 2022 and newer Tundras except for the TRD Sport and TRD Pro trims. Tundras that have the available adaptive damper suspension system can’t be fitted with the kit either.
While some shoppers may think that $3,995 is pricey for a lift kit, it is backed by a three-year, 36,000-mile warranty if installed and purchased when the truck is new or a one-year warranty for shoppers that purchase the kit after they’ve already bought their truck. Another large advantage of going with Toyota’s kit is that it’s made to work with the automaker’s Toyota Safety Sense system.