Toyota Commercial

I had the same truck in the commercial. My wife, daughter and son all learned to drive a cutch in it. Sold it in 2004 (187k) and the guy is still driving it today.

 

I remember the new VW bug one where they spun around like UFOs “reversed engineered from UFOs” and also the Neon “Hi” series myself. Roughly the same vintage as your memories, I think.

 

I wish I could say the 3.slow headgasket failure is just some made up fairy tale. But it's not, I am doing one in the shop right now. It's a lot of work and a shitty job.

 

Curious as to how many miles are on it?

 

My father has one just sitting in his driveway that he just uses as a garbage truck.

 

105k. Also, someone has already done headgaskets on this truck, at least once.

 

Or blow the coolant line that is under the intake manifold...

 

Thanks for the return of nightmares...

 

The intake manifold removal is ridiculous on these lol. So much going on.

 

idk if this is a dumb question but does anyone know what size tires these look like? i'm kinda new to cars but i have a 98 tacoma that i love! i want it to sit higher off the ground and i cant tell if in the commercial the truck is lifted or if it just has bigger tires. i love the looks of the toyota in this commercial i just can't figure out what exactly to do with my truck

 

The Truck in the commercial is an '89 or '90 SR5 Xtra Cab 4x4, going by the side stripes, and the lack of a cab top brake light. The wheels shown are the premium alloys - 15" by 7 or 8. I ran 265 tires on mine, and had similar clearance, and it also corrected the speedo from being a few mph off on the factory tire size.

 

Back then they had 31x10.50x 15s on them.

 

My dad drove 1st gen tacomas for years which led me to buying one. But he never handed it off to for free - lol.