Consumer Reports: 2nd gen years reliability

Good to excellent = average. Makes lots of sense.

 

2013 here too...ill agree to that if its related to what tacomamike says above. Mine had a high pitch noise coming from the windshield when i hit 45 and up ( i think its actually gone away now or ive gotten used to it). A few months ago the car wash blew the weatherstripping right off from above the passengers side door, had to re adhere it. Speakers seem to rattle too, but that could be because its not great in general. I can live with that since it has otherwise been a great truck.

 

yup, agreed on the windshield as well.

 

Unless Consumer Reports has turned over a new leaf, they are just another hack magazine. Their test reporting protocol is biased towards brands and products conforming to a preconceived criteria of unscientific opinion rather than objective testing procedures. I'd rather subscribe to Field and Stream and Sports Illustrated. At least with them, I'd get pretty pictures and objectivity.

 

Yeah but without consumer report how will I know what toaster oven to buy!

 

only the 13/14's...

 

link?
evidence?

 

CR can at most be used as a supplemental guide but as the bible for car reliability, nah.

Gotta remember, CR relies on owners to supply them their data. That alone creates issues.

 

CR is horse shit.

 

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2012/04/a-guide-to-new-car-ratings-and-reviews/index.htm

 

They just don't like Tacoma's. Even though Taco's have a better reliability rating than many other trucks, an abnormal resale value, and a high would you buy again rating, they pan them for trucks with more black (bad) dots. In the past, a high reliability rating always solidified a good used vehicle rating. I've lost faith in Consumers over the years as a few of their top reccommended products I bought haven't held up for squat. For example, I bought a washing machine on their reccomend that was a piece of crap from the get go. I should have researched it better, because after the fact, I looked at several sites that said do NOT buy this machine. There are a lot of sites now availiable to get ratings on just about any product out there. Consumers 'experts' arent the last word anymore.
Let the fanboy comments begin.........

 

yes very tiring

 

Hate to admit it, but I subscribe to CR. Have quit them 3 times. Basically, I just ignore ALL of their vehicle reports. They seem to hate trucks in particular. They are ok on most things EXCEPT vehicles, and I believe their reliability stats are questionable.

 

Consumer reports would be better if they had a fleet of vehicles that people drove for thousands of miles to get how reliable they are. And then average it out with owner reports.

 

I'm pretty sure they are saying the 05 is a "trouble spot", because the year is highlighted in red at the top. But then they give the 05 the highest rating of all the other years for the "used car verdict"?

 

We should never forget that, quite a few years ago, Consumer Reports rated the Isuzu Rodeo as awful and the Honda Passport as one of the best vehicles on the market. Passports were rebadged Rodeos. I think I'd rather get my info from automotive magazines.