200,000 Mile Club (1st Gen Tacomas)

Hello, I'm new to this forum but not new to Toyota pickups. ( I used to have an 85 SR5 and it was great. I should have never sold it...bought a Jeep (Big mistake!) I am shopping for a used Tacoma, but most affordable decent looking trucks have lots of miles.

I need to be convinced to buy a high mileage truck, so I am looking for comments from Tacoma owners that have MORE than 200,000 miles, (that's two hundred thousand miles!!)

Thanks, Jay

 

In the 8 toyota pickups I've owned, not ONCE have I ever put low mileage at the top of the list. I have 196k on mine now, and touch wood, it runs like a champ. Burns no oil, shifts great and is easy to fix if something goes wrong.

 

195k here and no problems

 

You gotta change your vehicle description it says 95 s/b 95.5 yeah??

 

be weary...most people that have high mileage tacomas are in no rush to get rid of them... i always fear the treatment the truck had before me...

 

I have a 96 tacoma and had 367k miles and still running good.

 

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same thing

 

272000 and it's still goin good other than a few overdue things like a timing belt and some others

 

didn't make a 95 tacoma tho.

 

sooo... since he has a tacoma it must be a 95.5 then

 

1996 223K Runs great. Minor repairs: ball jouint, axle bearing, starter, Clutch (due to lots of towing)

 

2001 206,000 i have had to replace nothing just the normal stuf (brakes, oil, timing belt, etc)

 

98 Tacoma 4x2 - 298,000 - sold to get a Solara - original tranny, clutch, etc.. just changed oil and filters,belts.. kept on truckin like nothing ever changed... Never ONCE did not start. ever.

Slowly missed havin a pickup

Then Bought a 00 prerunner, has 230,000 and runs like brand new.. Tight as a nun

these trucks last forever

 

95 4x4 with 247,500, running strong as ever! Changed the norm stuff, all the belts, reg oil changes, so on. Had to replace a head gasket and head, but that was because my coolant froze and over heated the engine. It ran fine with it like that, just a little rough idle for a few sec at start up for about 2 years. It runs like a freaking champ now!

 

Mileage don't even matter in a first gen, lol.

 

awesome! my dad has a 94(?), i believe, 2wd extended cab with almost 300k on it. he swears it's the best truck has ever owned.

 

it IS the best he's owned

 

true. it's his "work truck" he keeps all his crap in there. enough tools to build a house in it

 

That sounds exactly like my dad, he has about any tool you can imagine in his truck

 

243,000 on a 95(.5).
I wouldn't be here today (cuz I'm anti web these days, not antiTACOMA), and I'm looking into the first "problem" ever...popping out of 4th and doesn't wanna engage in 3rd.
Other than that, it has never had a problem and has always started...period.
Don't waste your time with the USA trucks or Nissans.