3rd gen door panel scratches

I feel like this is the marketing strategy of the big 3 full size manufacturers. Their commercials say it can/should be used as hard work truck for doing big jobs and getting dirty, but they're showing a truck that's easily 70k plus and full of luxury

 

Did you not read my post? The first 100,000 miles was used as a delivery truck and most of the remaining was used for work as a construction management consultant, which much was on rough job sites.
As far as a delivery truck, you don't think having a 1/2 dozen different kids driving a delivery truck all day/every day isn't hard on the interior?

 

Did you not read MY post? Thus the edit. I don't know what you do all day or who drives your truck. The truck wasn't designed around just your needs. People with manual labor trades usually need a truck that's reliable and can take abuse. Alot of businesses also buy trucks for their employees and aren't personal vehicles so they are abused in that sense as well. Good on you for keeping it clean. But it's still not a luxury vehicle.

 

The tacoma panels are cheap, I will admit to that. The old 1st gen trucks used pressed fiberboard door panels covered in fabric, those were the days when a work truck was good. You could pull off the panel, glue new fabric in and be done. Fabric door panels also didnt scratch. Toyota modernized their interiors, and the end result was panels that scratch easy. I personally would like to keep them as nice as possible.

I see people say others should of gotten a ridgeline instead if they didnt want damage. Are we saying the ridgeline is built better than the tacoma? Or is it just a snarky jab because the ridgeline cant offroad, and only the manliest of men take their trucks offroad all the time.

 

Not saying they are luxury vehicles, just that trucks don't necessarily have to be beat-up, abused and ugly regardless of how they are used. My '96 is an example of that.

 

Honestly both because this is TW right? But seriously, the Ridgline was designed for more family related applications which is why the interior is nicer. I have yet to see a Ridgeline used as an active duty vehicles other than transporting that new fridge or going loading up the kids gear for the next football game.

 

Do you have kids? they are the most careless things in the world when it comes to where they swing their feet, hands, and toys. My rear panels are trashed because of my kids. If the ridgeline can stand up to kids in the back seat, then they figured out how to make a door panel better than toyota.

And yes, TW does like to rag of the ridgeline... I blame it on spoiler envy

 

I see that, but that has nothing to do with the application of the vehicle's original purpose but how the owner takes care of their things. OP scratched his door. Oops. It's cheap for the reason of being cheap. And that's ok.

 

First one is due July 4. But I have nieces and nephews of course. Leather and pvc/rubber materials are pretty easy to clean up messes with and are also alot more gentle to touch (kids, family etc..) Of course they can still rip, but if your kids plastic toy is bashed against a plastic door, it will scratch. If bashed against softer materials, it may or may not be damaged, or otherwise it's more likely to absorb impact of non-abrasive objects.

 

Congrats! BTW, you can fit 3 booster seats in the back seat of the truck. I have a 5 and 7 year old, and sometimes we also take the neighbors 8 year old with us. Also, kiss your under seat and behind seat storage goodbye... its such a pain in the ass to get to after the kids seats are in.

 

Thank you!

Yea, all my emergency survival stuff is stored in there right now. Need to get a shell to hide that stuff under now. I work an hour away from home and have experienced all sorts of mother and human nature disasters that I need to be prepped for at a distance.

 

How would a person know how scratchable each and every interior material is on a test drive? Pretty sure they don't want me "testing" that out.

The materials on the interior are fragile to a fault. There are thousands of other types of plastics out there more resistant to scratching. Toyota skimped and now every time go to open the door from the inside, I risk putting a scratch on the door handle with my wedding ring.

 

The first part is pretty obvious. If you have any kind of feeling in your hands, you can easily tell what kind of material will scratch with just a finger nail. Whether or not Toyota cheaped out or did this in another purposeful is not matter I have no control over. But if your wedding ring is scratching it, the rule of the thumb is, the harder material will scratch the softer material 10/10 times whether its the Tacoma or not.

 

Yes I'm an engineer too. And literally everything is "softer" than my wedding ring, yet it doesn't necessarily scratch everything on the slightest bump.

 

Diamond door panels!

 

Done

 

Then just stop bumping into things so often. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

lol fuck off.

 

So, things haven't from my first gen, plastics are hard everywhere and very easily scratched. There are different plastics out there that do not scratch as easily, been in many cars and can see and feel the difference in higher end plastics.