2007 TRD vs. 2013 TRD

No, but I wanted a normal sized bed with 4 doors and a real back seat... If they made a DCLB version of the TRD Off Road, I would have bought it. But I figured it was easier to eventually add a locker than to stretch my truck... Why they just couldn't put A-TRAC in ALL the 4X4s or at least the TRD 4X4s is beyond me....

Honestly, I really did it for the color matched door handles.

 

Well, I would do maintenance and continue unless you having some major problem with the truck. Newer one may not last 280 000 miles.
I would just fix what needs fixing and continue running for another 200k+ miles. 2007-2008 where probably best years of Tacoma.
Dont get 2009+ for ATRAC/VSC its junk for slippery conditions so if you really insist on 2009+ truck I would just get Sr5 and put savings over TRD into ARB lockers.

 

Company dictates it and it's been having some repairs all along this year. Doesn't bother me to keep driving it, but the boss wants me in a newer truck and he's the one paying

 

As others have said, I have the sport and so far I haven't found a situation I can't get out of. That being said I can always add front and rear lockers, while still having the long bed option and looking cool and surpassing and skewpifying my poor TRD OR brethren with full color match and coolness to boot.

I claim dibs on skewpifying btw.

 

This thread is getting off track

I DON"T WANT A TRD SPORT OR A LONG BED, it would be stupid to buy a truck w/o the locker when I can get the factory locker as an option. The long bed is too long to turn around in the tight spots that I drive into everyday in the woods. And I don't want a hood scoop on my truck.

Now back on track please, this thread has nothing to do with a sport model.

 

I blame DavidK

 

you can turn the atrac off completely by holding the button down for like 6 secs at a complete stop

 

I think you are referring to VSC / TRAC , not ATRAC

 

I know you are asking for advice, but it seems based on your comments:

1) You have to buy a new truck, no choice.
2) You don't want a Sport.
3) You want a locker.
4) That leaves you the TRD offroad. Any differences between what you have now and what the offroad comes with today is not relevant. (See point number 1)

 

Bingo

 

Or an SR5 with arb locker since its a work truck.

 

I can't remember the post, but he also said why buy a locker when he can get one on the truck as an option.

 

Yeah he did. but if he really doesn't want the ATRAC, and the sport is out of the question, then its really the only other way.
Plus its cheaper.

 

if your boss is footing the bill... why arent you importing a Hilux?

 

weird. mine is very useful, and looks far better to boot!

 

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the sport/sr5's/base's are the same thing from 09+, with minor differences. prior to 09, the sports had a real LSD, and the base models had one tire fire. the OR is the only tacoma with a true different drive mode from the rest of the models...

 

True

 

Company is footing the bill and the company wants it stock except for someway to mount a winch. Reliability is the key and the best way to have reliability is to leave it stock. I know b/c I have had lots of modded vehicles. Double cab short bed TRD Offroad is what I will be getting and only in silver exterior-identical to what I have now. I just wanted to make sure that I could run with the atrac off in the mud.

 

YES... but you will simply push the button to turn it on, so you don't stay stuck.

A-TRAC turns a single front spinning tire and a single rear spinning tire into FOUR tires that are rotation-matched to crawl you out, like a tank.

There is so much mis-understanding and mis-representation of A-TRAC by those who either don't have it, or those who have yet to fully use it.

The rear-locker is understood, and is the reason I select the Off Road 4WD Tacoma each year model I got one (2001, 2005, 2010). I did not know what A-TRAC was when I traded up from my '05 to the '10. I came here to TW for answers (the dealer or company literature was of no help). Then I went off road to experiment with the new traction systems... and was blown away by the differences between what my rear locked '05 4WD could do (which was amazing) and the identical 2010 did, even without the rear locked. I use the rear locker sometimes, but the A-TRAC really makes it obsolete in the various conditions I typically four wheel in...

I posted a lot about A-TRAC and the other new systems because there was either not enough information or to counter the tons of FALSE and misleading drama posted here by the non-A-TRAC members. Sure, there is nothing better for pure traction than a front and rear locked 4WD, in most situations. However, Toyota does not offer a front locker. My enthusiasm is over STOCK traction from the factory. The one other beauty of A-TRAC (besides it comes as standard equipment on the Off Road 4WD) is you can steer with it on. Lockers inhibit tight steering often found in off road trails.

As for the 5 foot bed... It holds as much as the first generation 6 foot bed I had before... being a bigger truck. A longer bed would not allow as much off roading, due to hang ups on a longer over-hang. A-TRAC is NOT for slippery roads, otherwise it would be on all models (VSC and TRAC are for slippery roads). A-TRAC is for severe off roading, such as steep grades, loose rocks, boulders, etc. Even my 5 ft. bed was a bit too long for some of the off roading I do... as I came down off a boulder and smashed the underside, and pulled my bumper away from the truck. A 6 foot bed would have really been hard to get through.