Used Tacoma Prices
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For what it's worth I bought a one owner 2004 Taco TRD , ( 206 c.i.d. V-6 and a 5 spd. manual ) in 2015 for 13,400 with 114000 miles on it.
It has been a great baby truck , and has much more highway performance than my TJ. I just check mileage today and with non ethanol gas it has been getting 24.24 mpg. in mountain commuting and 20% highway. About 1500 lbs is all I can haul comfortably. The freaking Toyotas hold their value , however it seems to be a great baby truck for my application. Good luck in your search.
my 99 tacoma trd 4x4 has been a good car for 260k miles. I just pulled it out of the bushes after sitting for 5 years and it fired right up.thinking about selling it for 8k
I say car because the front ends are weak and prone to snapping wheels off.tow trucks used to have a fixture for when,not if that happened to the poorly designed tacoma/tundra front ends.
They need alignments and parts regularly if actually used offroad much.they barely haul any weight while getting good mileage.
I say car because the front ends are weak and prone to snapping wheels off.tow trucks used to have a fixture for when,not if that happened to the poorly designed tacoma/tundra front ends.
They need alignments and parts regularly if actually used offroad much.they barely haul any weight while getting good mileage.
Yeah I've definitely come to realize that a TJ is a great second car. Far from the worst DD, but also far from the best. Did a 14er this weekend with some friends and we were planning on taking my car and then realized that there was absolutely no way we were going to fit the 4 of us with gear in there. So we took my buddy's XJ instead and even that was pretty cramped. Taco won't be much better as far as leg room goes but at least I can fit a few packs in there.
Is there anything like chro-mo axle shafts for them? I have zero experience with IFS so I'm not super familiar with how to beef them up.
Off road the Taco is a very poor substitute for the TJ. The IFS makes me puke a little in my mouth , fragile and next to no articulation.
There are a couple in my group. The drivers start out thinking they're equals because they have similar inches of ground clearance but the difference always reveals itself the first time things get a little flexy and they start hanging tires up in the air. So far we haven't seen any of the fragility, fortunately, but a lot of that is probably because I'm mindful of what rigs are going when I plan the trip.
The lower balljoint tries to pull apart under weight,not compress like most designs. The rack and pinion isn't very robust.
They really are a nice drive on the highway if their ergonomics happen to suit your body, and are a good fit on narrow driveways and forest roads. For extra weight carrying i put an extra leaf in the packs.
I have a hard time buying the toyota tax just to own one though. They are overpriced like jeeps.
My previous minitruck was a ford ranger that hauled more,wheeled better,jumped further and higher and had more power.
For sure. Definitely not planning on wheeling in it like I do in my Jeep. Just something to get me back into some alpine lakes and to some climbing crags.
That makes sense. My experience is almost entirely with TJs so the IFS world is something I need to spend some more time researching.
Rangers are another one that I just keep forgetting to keep an eye out for. I've seen a couple really good looking builds the past few weeks and they are much much more reasonably priced. They also seem just as reliable as a Toyota.
4th gen 4runners are solid. We sold a 2004 2wd with 240k to buy our 2010 4wd 5th gen and I wish we'd just bought a newer, lower mileage 4th.
I looked for quite a while and dealt with disappointment after disappointment then finally this popped up and is quite solid. I think I too would lean toward a late 4th gen over an early 5th gen.
A few years ago, a friend of mine totaled his Tacoma on the freeway. It was 5 years old. The insurance company paid him about $5000 less than what he paid for it new. That's pretty good depreciation! He joked that he plans to total the new one after 5 years.
I was looking at them recently since I will be due for a new DD in about a year. I see they are rated to tow 6800 lbs which isn't bad for something smaller than an F150. I'm also considering a 4runner, but their max tow capacity is around 5000lbs.
Though when all said and done, for the price of a Tacoma you can probably get an F150. Just not as reliable as a Toyota, but better tow capacity and larger considering I have 3 kids.
I was looking at them recently since I will be due for a new DD in about a year. I see they are rated to tow 6800 lbs which isn't bad for something smaller than an F150. I'm also considering a 4runner, but their max tow capacity is around 5000lbs.
Though when all said and done, for the price of a Tacoma you can probably get an F150. Just not as reliable as a Toyota, but better tow capacity and larger considering I have 3 kids.
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I used to live in Virginia where they have personal property tax on vehicles, and one year the tax on my Tacoma went up. I checked the tax rate and it was the same. They were applying that rate to a higher vehicle value than the previous year. So I called to report the error and they assured me that the Tacoma had actually gone UP in value, year to year. I couldn’t believe it! But that’s Toyota trucks for you.
KennethS
TJ Addict
Well, I always knew I wasn’t like other people. I ain’t a kid and the ‘98 TJ has been a DD since we bought it in 2002.
CreepinDeth
TJ Addict
That happened to everyone during the pandemic effect on supply chains. I was nearly able to sell my 7 year old F150 for 80% of its sale price when I got it
Thats Ford trucks for ya
(humor)That's easy. A long time ago I and a buddy folded a 5 point bull onto the back of a three wheeler. It hauled both of us and the elk out of the mountains but the step climbs were pretty squirrrrrely.