A New Discovery

Keys for a late 2017 Tacoma:

 

Unrelated but that's the pen I use when I check cars in and it's 10* outside. Bought two incase I lose one.

 

I don't know what is correct anymore. Well obviously I am wrong, but is there any info on the consistency on what keys you will get? I just got 2 master keys, each with the little slide in key.

 

Well, it seems to hold a pen a fuck of a lot better then the freaking key. I'm thinking maybe Toyota should go back to the drawing board and work on that!

 

So first world..... detonation device holder.

 

My key from the fob works in the tailgate. Turn to the right to lock, left to unlock.

 

I received a separate tailgate key with my 17.

 

Huh I have an 18 and the tail gate key is cut different than the fob key. It works for my glove box and tail gate. Fob key won’t even go in all the way. Let alone turn.

 

You're not my supervisor!

 

Well now! I have to say THANK YOU for your comment. I have NEVER seen anything from Toyota that actually said what the clip is for! So if you say it is for the tailgate key, I will digress. BUT, I still stand by my comments that it makes no sense whatsoever to put ANY key there, whether it is the tailgate key that is in the key fob, or a spare key for those who have regular keys instead of keyless. What good is the spare key going to do if you get locked out if it is in the top of the arm rest? But again, I really do appreciate the clarification from someone with a connection to Toyota. Like someone else wrote here as well, I TOO, put a pen in mine within a couple of days of me bringing it home!

 

Will you scan the page in the TUndra manual that refers to this, and post that here? It would be a GREAT SERVICE! Thanks!

 

I too keep a vintage Fisher Space Pen in mine. The pen belonged to my late brother and it fits perfect in that slot.

 

LOL

 

OK, here's a picture of how the pen fits. I challenge anyone to show how a key -- any key -- would fit better.

 

Below is a scan of page 473 of the 2012 Tundra owner's manual. The reason I used the 2012 manual is that the pen holder in the Tundra was redesigned in later years, to allow for multiple pens. This one, however, is identical to what we find now in the Tacoma.

 

The original use was for the tailgate key on the 2016. Contact Toyota corporate for a redesign failure of the lid.

 

Those little keys do open the doors and the tailgate. The larger key only opens the tailgate. From the dealer, I received two fobs with the little keys in them and the spare larger tailgate key for my 2019 Off Road.

 

Prove it! Unless you can come up with documentation, I say you are flat wrong. This bracket is a direct copy of the Tundra pen holder, as I've shown in the above postings.

If it was for a key, the design would be completely different. And Toyota is not known for hiring incompetent engineers.

It could be that some people, including Toyota salespeople, were putting the tailgate key into the pen holder, as a sort of haphazard improvised solution. It's obviously not designed for that use.

 

Oh my. But wouldn't the pen explode and leave ink all over the place?

 

Got a pen in mine, MT don’t come with tailgate key so pen it is.