Austin Area TW Chapter (all gens welcome, even T4Rs; heck, just make it a Toyota and we're good)

A second gen Taco would probably be the best option. Tundra is simply too big and too heavy to be able to keep up with the Tacoma imo

@Lars

 

Yes, they I had the alignment done but the popping was happening before the alignment. Happened after PINS so I'm worried I may have taken out a bushing or a tie-rod, I was having a little too much fun in the ruts.

Yes Sir! That was me, I didn't get to tighten the cam bolts and I couldn't reproduce any noise rocking the struck. I could only reproduce some of the noise while breaking from reverse to forward, but not the pop I keep hearing lock to lock while off road. Charles Maund is right down the street from where I work. The service manager took a ride with me, I made him drive and he thinks it's a joint in the steering column down to the rack. I'll find out more when they call me back.

 

Havnt seen him in a very long time

Wonder what his Tundy looks like now

 

I have AC!

 

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Fuck yeah!

 

Ew, Charles Maund.

 

Trust me, I hate the dealer as much as anyone but I don't feel like driving down to AutoNation now that my favorite service adviser no longer works there. I'll be in touch depending on what they say or do, I still have your cards in my truck.

 

Greg Coy? Hes my dude at Auto Nation

Edit: in the service dept

 

No, it was Ashley Otto though Grey Coy helped me when I first bough the truck and the battery shorted within a day, he asked if I liked having the camper because he was looking at one.

Over at Charles Maund I usually ask for Kevin Coyne so he and I can talk Autocross for 15 minutes.

 

The truck that's now at Charles Maund? Lol... It's almost a threat. "Fix it right, or I'm taking it to @Texoma "

 

Haha!!! Truly legit!

 

Yeah. I considered the trailer but I am concerned about that while driving through Latin America. I have read that it makes you a target.

My plan was to live out of the cabin. Make the rear seats flat or remove them all together. The space should allow me to put a make shift bed in there. I'm a compact guy
The bed was going to be a work area. I would set up my laptop/office there. I would also use it for solar power/batteries/shower/other gear. I don't want an RTT. I think they are cool for the camper but not exactly something you should set up in a Walmart parking lot or truck stop, let alone a foreign country. So I'm not sold on either the taco or the tundra. I am just inquiring since MPG would be a wash on a loaded Taco. I want a taco, but I need to be logical about it. I don't want to come back early just to rebuild.

 

Yeah, I may play dumb and nice, but they minute they try to pull something on me it's not going to end well. I've seen a lifted TACO with a nice bumper parked back in the Service Area, I hope it's one of the tech's and I get the right set of hands on it. I was actually happy the service manager drove and felt the issue I was describing. At least I have that in my pocket.

 

I hate to say this but for the sake of being self sufficient and sleeping in the truck rather in a tent or Trailer, I would look at a 4runner with a sleeping platform. That or a ruggedized tear-drop/cargo camper.

 

That

 

Speaking of trailers and camping and such...

 

Very cool!

 

Doesn't matter what the tech says brotha. Service managers get paid on bonuses. In Wes' (head of the service dept, tied #2 head honcho at the dealer) there's a white board with all the service people's monthly floors that they have to hit in sales

 

Towing our pop up with my 4Runner sucked the first time I did it. I was headed into the wind and up and down hills and ended up with 10MPG.