Just how good are these Tacoma engines

I found a 2008 Prerunner I like but it has 196,000 miles on it. I may be making a huge mistake if it doesn't have many more miles left in it.

 

If properly maintained, a Tacoma should be good for 300,000 or more. Maintenance records? 4 or 6 Cylinder?

 

Wonder how you'd tell "If properly maintained" ?? I agree tho - if the oil was changed every 3K for regular or 5k for syn but again how 2 B sure ?

 

5k for regular, for V6 anyway. Not sure about 4-cyl

 

6 cylinder. I don't know about maintenance history yet

 

my junk has 262k on it, was a fleet vehicle until last summer, reasonable maintenance its whole life. I thought nothing of driving it cross country over Christmas, 2600mile round trip with wife kid and dog, never skipped a beat.

Its a Toyota, while it does have its failings, they are fewer and less drastic than most of the big there offerings.

both of my current Toyota vehicles have 200k plus, in am not concerned with either of them

 

You finally broke'r in!!

 

Same engine as my 4th gen 4Runner, which currently has 240K and runs like a champ. Oil changes (regular, non-synthetic) done every 5-8K and I've even let it go as far as 10K a time or two. You have to try really hard to F these engines up.

 

Your numbers would be over maintained. Well over. And any motor since around the mid 90's that doesn't make 300k is likely an abuse victim. Both machining tolerances, oil qualities and everyone having fuel injection started making huge longevity improvements around that period. And oils have continued to improve to the point that SN dinos are very close to syns in quality. That aside..........

The major health of the engine can be measured reasonably well by 3 simple tests. A compression test, a leakdown test and an oil analysis at an independent lab.

That will give you the basics of the internals.

All the other stuff that are best served by regular PM, ie coolant, hoses, belts, water pump, tstat, etc. will be unknowns unless there are accurate records available.

Add on rest of the driveline, safety systems, suspension components and accessories, and you have lots to evaluate. I mean nothing lasts forever. So the question is has it been maintained, has it been replaced already, or is it on the ragged edge?

 

Their a 400,000 member on here and search for the Million mile yota.

 

How much are they asking? Some people are asking crazy money for super high mileage trucks.

 

Here is how long one can last. The thread is in the new member forum. 2008 4X4 TRD V6.


https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/2008-tacoma-4x4-still-going-strong.397837/

 

The circumference of the earth is a little under 25,000 miles. So this is like 23 times around the earth. Wow!!!

 

That's 200+miles per day, every single day since purchased. Impressive.

 

Damn, my '09 has 63k on it. I thought I was driving the shit out of it. These numbers are impressive.