2016 has rear drum brakes...

I would had bought it regardless, but the fact I know it has drums doesn't even make me close to mad.

 

Then no, you don't run mud and slime. Mine where running on the rivets at 73k miles. I'm in the mud and water a lot. Not just driving through some. You have not been doing much off roading by any real standard. Go get in some knee deep mud, then tell me about drums not holding foreign material.

 

I never really thought about burying it in mud often then packing the rear drums, that is a good point. Mud is full of abrasives and I can see it eating up brake pads on either disc or drum setups but more so on the drums if it gets worked in there and has no way out. It would have to be the reall slimey liquid stuff, not this Texas clay.

That being said, I haven't done a brake job on a vehicle since 1997. Most of my vehicles have gone to 60,000 before being traded in and have never needed pads or rotor work. I thought our VW TDI was going to need a set but we traded it in before the transmission needed to be serviced at 30,000 (dual clutch setup). It would have been my fault though, the torque was intoxicating and I hooned that wagon all the time. My three year old loved sitting in the middle of the back seat with the panoramic roof and having me do full throttle take offs on on-ramps.

And I do like the lack of brake dust on the rear rims on the Tacoma.

 

I think in knee deep anything you're brakes are going to end up Fubar'd . I doesn't matter if they're discs or drums, whatever you're in is going to get in and wear out your pads and contact surface at that depth.

 

all season tires have mo business on a 4x4, at least not mine. Oh, I forgot 95% of trucks never leave the pavement.

 

I think you forgot you're on Tacomaworld. We better get a 3" lift, 1" spacers, 5100's, and 33" M/T tires before we get kicked off of here .

 

I agree,hence the 73k mile rear shoe replacement. Oh well, gotta always go where I think I can't. Character defect.

 

Imagine for a moment what that kind of abuse would have done to disk brakes, frozen caliper slides hung up parking brake mechanisms rotor surface like groves in an old record nah I’ll stick with the drums. Either way it would not be a deal breaker for me I don’t care that it does not have rear disks and I don’t care if it did well maybe I would when it came time to deal with them and all the things that go along with low use disk brakes. A truck is completely different than a SUV or a car there is no weight in the back.

 

There are still discs on the front, wouldn't they look like what you are talking about then? Drums on the rear are only solving 1/2 the problem at that point.

Gearheadesw, what did your front rotors/pads look like?

I would like to know how much more the rear drums weigh in regards to a rotor and caliper. It has to be rather negligible in a truck. The tools that I keep in the bed have to weigh more than the difference between the two setups.

 

Drums for the Offroad models and discs for the Sports and Limiteds then.

 

Sounds fair to me

 

Believe it or not on my '13 Limited I don't feel the difference between driving a car with rear discs anymore. I drove the SR5 and TRD models and I could feel the mushiness but when I test drove the Limited it did not feel that one bit and till this day I still don't feel it. This is definitely not a deal breaker for me as I've become used to the way the brakes feel. And they don't feel bad at all.

 

Run mud? Is that serious? Sounds like a title to one of those half rap half country songs.

Curious as to what the standard off roading is. The real stuff, not that pansy shit.

 

Oh please...tell me more about how hardcore you are. Shoes take literally 20 minutes to put on and cost like $15.

Drums are fine generally. My biggest bitch is having to open the rear brake lines to pull the third.. Far from a everyday concern

 

People who are bitching about drums dont even know what there bitching about. They see 1 person on here ranting about nothing then they feel the need to join in on the bitching. IDIOTS

 

i have drums and my truck stops everyday. As a matter of fact its been stopped all day in the parking lot. Seem to work pretty good to me.

 

Toyota should have kept putting tape decks as well as manual roll windows. If it works, why try to fix it? LOL

 

One thing that doesn't help is that drums are just a bigger pain in the ass to work on. So much easier to pop some pads out of the calipers, or pop the caliper off and throw on a new disc. Anyone with a socket set can do disc brakes with very little coaching.

Plus, disc brakes just look cooler behind the wheel.

 

true story. I have a socket set and i can even turn bolts with some of the sockets in the set