PennSilverTaco's "Perfect 5-Lug Regular Cab" Build, Aspergers, and General BS MegaThread!

150k in 7 years is about 21k a year. I drive mine about 17-18k a year so far (2018 w/ 38k). I just drive a lot and will go on drives around the city looking at houses for sale or which part of the City is changing/development for leisure or investment potential.
Then again, I find it soothing to just go on drives and my Taco is what I use to do it since maintenance on it is the cheapest.
That Tacoma does look like typical fleet vehicle though.

 

It seems like most Tacoma regular cabs, especially the 5-lug ones, were sentenced to a life of hard servitude as work trucks; Mine was a daily driver from day one!

I definitely agree with you that long drives are soothing; With the coronavirus pandemic, I take my truck out just about everyday, and sometimes I drive more than 50 miles in a day!

 

With the coronavirus, I am averaging about 70mi a day lol. Literally going in circles around the city. I just hate being stuck inside, so me and my fiancée would drive around and talk about work (we have separate home offices so we hardly talk about work even at home) or random stuff while drinking juice or coffee.

 

I generally average about a thousand miles a month (Sometimes more, sometimes less) when it's not "car show season"...

I only put about 800ish miles on my truck during the entire month of April! In July 2019, I put almost 2,000 miles on my truck! This was because I drove up to my cousin's house about at the end of June (over 180 miles round trip), drove up to my friend's house in the mountains for the 4th of July (over 140 miles round trip), and went to so many car shows I lost count! I hit the milestone of 100K in mid-July 2019, just shy of ten years after buying the truck brand new! 2019 was the first time I got three oil changes in a year!

With all of the car shows getting cancelled (two in June I was planning on going to) due to the coronavirus, I highly doubt I will be hitting 120K before Thanksgiving 2020 like I was expecting to!

 

Oh ya, my trips when I go off-roading, visiting friends or family and sometimes even shopping or going to my favorite restaurant closest to me it’s about 250mi round trip. The avg is about 400mi round trip.
With my current primary job, I have lots of free time so I’m normally out of town on the weekends and sometimes on the weekdays.

gas is cheap on the taco and so are parts. Beats using my other vehicle on trips that requires premium.

 

The Keystone Diesel Truck Nationals is supposedly still happening according to Maple Grove’s Facebook page, but this is what they have on their website when you click “schedule”...

 

Insurance decisions are not always based on a straight forward percentage.
I lost a Pennsylvania insured vehicle to the insurance company which would have been repaired under a NJ policy.
Under PA insurance rules the insurance company has the option to keep your vehicle if it costs them less to due so.
My 2015 Tacoma was damaged in an accident. I was found to be at fault.
Value before accident $16K
Their salvage value estimate $8K
Repair estimate $10K - 62.5%
By paying out the 16k and selling the wreck for 8K they only lose 8K, as opposed to 10K to fix it.
Can't fault their decision from a business perspective.
I'd have preferred they fix it rather than go through the hassle of buying another.

 

Is that coolant; I don't think the coolant in my truck is red though...

 

Looks like I found a picture of a mint condition example on the almighty internet!

 

No, it's human blood as a result from road rage.

 

Looks like one of our delivery vehicles.

 

Looks like a lot of peoples' delivery vehicles;

Doylestown Glass Go. had a silver 2005-2010 RC 5-lug just like mine for the longest time, and now they've got a 2012-2014 RC 5-lug...

Peruzzi Toyota in Hatfield (where my truck was purchased) has a white 2005-2008 RC 5-lug that they used a runner...

I'm pretty sure I've seen a few NAPA Auto Parts 2nd Gens...

 

I would like to see the Drive In Movies make a comeback.

 

Not in today's real estate market; They use too much land to be efficient

 

There is one that was only 20 minutes from here but it closed 6 or 7 years ago and still sits empty. Seems like a good time for a comeback with all this social distancing crap.

 

If they can get the governments to stop including existing drive-ins in the lockdown order...

 

I think Churches might have been using the old Drive In because I noticed a stage in front of the one screen.

 

It’s hailing!

 

The mini storm ended as quickly as it blew in, though the clouds still looked pretty threatening for a few minutes...