2012 TACOMA MEGA-THREAD

That is a very nice truck enjoy!

 

Those twilight pics make it look almost bronzish. Looks good. Your gonna need to take off the lugnuts to get the caps off the wheel.

 

How does the subwoofer sound?

 

LT1 lets take that thing wheeling!

 

you may be the first TW member with a 2012???!!! looks awesome

 

I think the second or third. Someone already bought and posted.

 

Awesome Truck Dude...good Luck with it... MGM is a nice color.

 

LT1....how 'bout a close-up pic of the wheels.....congrats....nice looking truck

 

nice truck. looks good at certain angles. I have yet to see one in person so i cannot say i love it yet. Slap a lift and some rims on there asap

 

The 2012 Tacoma - PDF file mentions "Trailer Sway Control" is this new or has it been included with the Traction/Stability Control System all along....?

 

Like the new 2012 Sport Wheels!

 

Still wandering...Do all of the 2012's have the shark fin or just those with the navigation system? Right now that may be a deal breaker for me. Just don't like it. Didn't like the fins when they showed up on the GM products several years ago and still don't like them. Don't mean to be negative about the new trucks. The 2012's have not shown up yet at my dealer so I can't check it out for myself.

 

thanks for the pics/taco data. much appreciated!

can you let us know what's up with the power lumbar? there's supposed to be some kind of 4-way power switch i think but i can't see it in any of the pics posted previously.

 

Not all just the access cabs and double cabs. That is for sat radio and it is standard on all doublecabs and optional on accesscabs. it looks like your going to have to get use to those or find a way to remove it.

 

I just saw the 2012 and I don't like the front one bit!

 

How much did you pay for the 125K warranty? You should check out Troy.. can't find the link. He's got (at least he had) the best deal on the extended warranty around.

Anyone have the link with Troy's info on it?

 

For what it is worth and consideration.

'Buy American' gets new emphasis

By Wayne T. Price, FLORIDA TODAY
Updated 9/9/2011 10:16 AM





New Balance is one of the few American manufacturers of athletic shoes, so it only makes sense that Simmermaker, 46, author of "How Americans Can Buy American," wears that brand.

With Monday being Labor Day, a U.S. unemployment rate of 9.1 percent and a creeping dread about the economy, Simmermaker is part of a renewed movement to persuade American consumers to buy products made in the U.S. to advance economic growth and keep people working.

For too long, movement leaders say, consumers have ignored where products are made and simply chased what they believe is the most inexpensive price -- ultimately enriching countries like China and keeping workers there employed.

"It's important to understand that workers in China don't pay taxes to America," Simmermaker said "Only American workers do. And American companies typically pay twice as much in taxes to the U.S. Treasury compared with foreign-owned companies."

Book anniversary
Simmermaker is an electronics technician who lives in Orlando and makes his 100-mile roundtrip commute in an American-made Lincoln Town Car.
Simmermaker came up with the idea for a book on American-made products in 1994 while shopping at the Florida Mall in Orlando. He began looking at where the products were made and found few products made in the United States. Something began to stir inside him.

He started compiling a list of U.S.-made products and the result was the 1996 book "How Americans Can Buy American -- The Power of Consumer Patriotism," published by Rivercross Publishing Inc. The first edition listed about 7,500 products and services that came from American companies. Later editions now list more than 16,000 U.S.-made products and services, including a special section of 1,000 American-Made/Union-Made products.

Simmermaker also offers to send people a free Retail E-guide featuring more than 2,500 American-made products from more than a dozen popular retail stores like Dillard's, Home Depot, T.J. Maxx, and Costco.

He is a frequent guest on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, and has been quoted in USA TODAY, The Wall Street Journal and Business Week, among other publications.

Renewed emphasis on Made in the U.S.
ABC's Good Morning America's anchor, Diane Sawyer, began a "Made in America" pledge this year, saying if every American spent an extra $3.33 on U.S.-made goods, it would create almost 10,000 new jobs in the country. She urged viewers to pledge to buy American and asked individuals to inventory their home to see what percentage of the goods were made in the U.S.

Sawyer's campaign brought even more attention to Simmermaker's and others' efforts to publicize the importance purchasing American-made goods. Simmermaker and other Buy American advocates started getting more inquiries.

Some of those came to Julie Reiser, who along with her husband, Adam, founded the Delray Beach, Fla., company, Made in the USA Certified. The company certifies "Made in the USA" claims that materials and manufacturing are domestic.

Reiser said the poor economy has led many Americans, including herself, to question mass consumerism and why we as a nation have collected so much stuff over the decades. The next question is why so much of that stuff is made in China and other foreign countries.

"Buying something that is made in the USA is something to be proud of," said Reiser. "It always makes the consumer feel good, that they're helping out the economy by keeping the money at home and helping protect jobs here."

Is the foreign-made goods threat overstated?
There is data that buying Chinese-made goods has benefits.

Research this year from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco shows that for every dollar spent on a Chinese item, 55 cents go to U.S. businesses for services such as marketing and sales. Last year, 2.7 percent of U.S. consumer spending went to products made in China, according to the study. The findings may surprise U.S. consumers, given the widespread belief that the most spending is on foreign-made items, said Bart Hobijn, a senior research adviser at the San Francisco Fed who co-wrote the report with economist Galina Hale.

"But consumer spending means a lot more than going shopping," he said. "If you get a haircut, pay your electricity bill, go to the movies, that's all part of consumption."

Overall, the vast majority of goods and services sold in the U.S. are made in the country, the San Francisco Fed's researchers found. Shoes and clothing are an exception, with nearly 36 percent of U.S. dollars spent on Chinese-made items, compared with 25 percent on U.S.-made products.

Doing what you can?
A few years ago, a crew from CNN inventoried Simmermaker's home to see how many of his household items were American-made. He passed CNN's scrutiny and estimates that about 85 percent of the items in his home are American-made --(AT) from his New Balance shoes to his 1996 Lincoln Town Car that has more than 315,000 miles on the odometer.

If a consumer achieves a 50 percent level of purchasing American-made products, they'd be doing a great service to the country, he said. It's a fallacy that most U.S.-made products cost more, he added. Sometimes it just takes more research to see what other brands are out there and which retailers are selling them.

"When it does cost more to buy American, we need to look at it not as an extra cost, but as an investment in America," Simmermaker said. "We may save a few dollars at the cash register every now and then, but we are losing far more as a country than we are saving individually."

 

Ok guys.. another update.. sorry so late.. busy morning.. and it's my 2 year anniversary, so I'm sneaking in updates as she gets all "dolled up" for dinner tonight...

Did some close up pics of the wheels.. and low and behold.. IT IS A HUBCAP!! kinda.. it's more like a chrome cover on a pretty decent wheel (IMO)..

Here's a few more pics of the truck and up close with the wheels.. be warned some of the pics are iffy cause I'm using my iphone4 which has HDR.. the HDR will help with contrast but makes it look "funny".. either way, you get to see what was intended to be seen sometimes w/the HDR...

Here's a few more of my baby in its new bed..


Here's a few up close pics.. look carefully, you can see the reg wheel hiding behind the "chrome clad" hubcap..


Instead of taking off a wheel I decided to take a look at the spare in hopes that it might not have the "chrome clad" hubcap.. and low and behold.. thar she is.. in her real form..

Here's one side by side..



So there you have it folks.. answering a few questions..

the lumbar support was manual on mine.. nothing electric there..

wish I knew this before the signing.. it ended up $1800 or so.. but they threw in the paint/fabric care package and the tire package for free.. so I guess not too bad..

Oh.. and guess what guys!! my first mod!!!!
Console vault from Costco!! (again, sorry for bad pics..)


There you have it folks.. soon enough I'll have enough to have my own "build" page!!

 

Oh, and another thing.. the Entune is not bad.. but there are some issues.. I guess there always is with new devices.. The biggest one is that several functions are disabled when the truck is in motion. I'm currently doing google searches.. but if anyone has any know-how and can show me how to disable it.. LET ME KNOW!!! It's driving me crazy..

 

not sure i like that so much, 30 some thousand dollars and you get "hubcaps"?? The wheel doesn't look bad without the chrome tho.

what material is the "hubcap" made of?

does the centercap fit the wheel without it?

can ya take the chrome off the centercap?