First time buying a Tacoma

Whats up everyone! Just bought a '15 Tacoma PreRunner SR5 double cab. This is my first Toyota truck and I was just seeking any advice or information about owning a Tacoma.

Here is a little bit about what I bought:

2015 PreRunner SR5 with the 4.0 V6
SR5 Extra Value Package
Towing Package
ETUNE Radio with backup camera
Sliding rear glass
Its got the two tone interior Tan/dark silver (or grey). Sorry...I couldn't remember the color name.

Here is a picture of it....

 

Nice truck

 

Thanks

 

Welcome to TW and congrats on your 1st Toyota!

 

Tits! Sweet ride homie

 

Thanks everyone. I absolutely love this truck. I've been hunting a truck for a few weeks and was thinking about just getting a used truck around 10 to 18K but everything I found around that price range was trucks with 130,000 + miles (mostly Chevy's and crappy looking F-150's). Of course, there were several of the old Colorado's floating around but there is a reason why Chevy quit making those things a couple of years ago. I don't mind used trucks but I didn't want to get stuck with high mileage and something that I didn't know for sure that would last me for a while. I started looking at some of the new mid-size trucks like the Frontier and Colorado. Didn't care for the frontier. Not a bad looking truck for the most part but it just didn't do it for me. Next, I looked at the new Colorado's. Don't get me wrong, they are some nice trucks but I found that the Colorado looked more like a crossover and the interior looked like something a nice sedan would have. Finally, I ventured over to the local Toyota dealership and looked at the Tacoma's. I loved how the exterior looked and the interior looked very nice. I test drove it and while it does not drive like some of the other trucks, it felt like what a truck should feel like. Got back and started to talk price with the dealership. I was trading in a 2006 Jeep Cherokee that I absolutely got ripped off when I bought it a little over a year ago. With that said, I was upside down on the trade but the dealership worked with me and gave me a little more than expected. With the military rebate and some other deals, I was able to get in that new Tacoma with the payments I wanted. Plus, the dealership gives a lifetime power train warranty on all new Toyota's. Been driving it for a week now and I have not been disappointed in it. Its the perfect size for me and my family.

 

Pretty truck! Looks good in red.

Advice? So far as a new Tacoma owner myself I've noticed:

1) The truck makes a whine when you shut it off. This comes from the secondary air pump and is normal.
2) Something else but I've gotten so used to it I can't recall it anymore.

 

I really haven't heard a whine when shutting off. Its prob. there and I just don't pay attention to it. I only have 260 miles on it, so I'm sure I will notice more when I put more miles on it. About the only thing I have truly noticed is that on a very windy day, I hear more noise from the wind. Its really nothing to me b/c we don't get extreme windy days that much here in South Carolina.

 

Open your door before you shut it off. Then you might hear it. haha I read on another thread someone commented their truck sounded like it was "having an asthma attack". It's kind of a wheezing sound.

If yours doesn't do it that's all good too!

 

Thanks. I really like this forum. It has a lot of great stuff on here. Hopefully this truck will be good to me.

 

If it wasn't 11 o'clock at night.....I would got outside to see

 

The only noise thing I've noticed on my 3 Tacos has been excessive cab noise in rain.

Pretty far down the list of things to bitch about, if ya ask me. Although, in a couple memorable 'Florida rain' circumstances, it got so loud I basically had to shut the radio off, as I couldn't understand a word.

Oh...and nice looking truck

 

Thanks.

 

Wife wants me to get step rails for it. Its not a high sitting truck in my opinion but she has short legs .....Any suggestion on what is the best step rails to buy. Which would look better.....chrome or black?

 

The "whine" sound is the smog pump it kind off spools down a few seconds after the engine shuts off. Sounds a little like one of those hand held dirt devil vacuum s.

The other thing is the Tacoma tick this bothers some owners and others like myself like the sound. That's a combination of things the chain the fuel injectors and a variable vacuum switch opening and closing over and over. Every Tacoma ticks some just are a little louder than others. Many people hear it and mistake it for a ping or clunk and an indication of a problem.

 

You chose...wisely.

Congrats, man. Gorgeous rig.

 

Thanks.

 

Happy Motoring. Nice truck.

 

Yeah I heard it today.

 

I never got steps, but my ex was 5'2"

I got good at parking against the end of a row so that there was almost always a curb for her to use as a step