Toyota Tacoma Experience

jerem0621 wrote:
Do any of you have any ownership experience with a Toyota Tacoma.

I am considering one as a replacement for my Town Car and as a vehicle to tow our PUP. Primarily it will just be me in the truck except when we tow and we will use the truck for that.

Thinking of a used Tacoma Double Cab SR5 Double Cab 4x4. Should have more than enough capacity to pull our PUP and the cab is pretty comfy for a midsize truck.

Just looking for experience and if there are any pitfalls to this Truck.

Thanks!

Jeremiah

Since you are looking at used in that class, also look at the Frontier. Drive both the Taco and the Fronty. They drive "different" ( steering and brakes feel different ). In '06, when I was buying, I chose the Nissan mostly because I preferred the way it drives. Mine is a crewcab, 4WD, 4.0 V6, and critically ( for me )...it is a six speed manual. My opinion is the manual trans works "far better" for towing in this class of truck. I tow my 19' Funfinder or a two horse slant with this truck ( both right at 4K pounds ) and it's a good match for these trailers.
If by chance you buy a Frontier, two things that I highly recco is Bilstein 5100's under the rear, and the addition of a Hellwig anti-roll bar ( rear ).
For fuel mileage I get 18 to 20 in daily non towing use and 9 to 13 towing.
If you are buying a Nissan with automatic transmission before 2010 model year make SURE the radiator has been upgraded to the "replacement". Early ones could ( many DID ) fail internally, and when they do they totally wipe out the auto trans. The failure internally results in coolant/trans fluid cross contaminating, so when the coolant goes thru the trans, it destroys it. Immediately.

Edit: ps, payload on mine is 1146 pounds