Prius Time is Over...

Hello Everyone,

I've been lurking on this site for years now and finally got a Tacoma. I've had few other trucks over the years (Tundra, Ranger, 1968 F-200, Nissan Hardbody) but this is my first Toyota. I was driving a Prius most recently due to a long commute.

I wanted something I could really take off road and not worry about. I have two little kids who like to spit their food everywhere and I also shuttle mountain bikes a lot, so the idea of paying $30,000+ for something that would get scratched and dinged didn't sound that appealing.

I live in Oregon, but one of my friends was visiting someone in Arizona and found a 2005 DCSB SR5 4x4 for sale with a salvaged title and 108K mi for $12,000. I talked him down to $10,700 and may have purchased the cheapest second gen Tacoma I've ever seen for sale.

I wired my friend the money, and he drove it 1600 miles back to Oregon. The only comment he had was that it "pulled to the left". When I looked closely it turns out it had a different tire on the front drivers side.

That was in March of this year, and since then I did new tires, toytec boss coilovers, SPC upper control arms, spider trax wheel spacers, 2 10"s behind the rear seat, new DVD player with custom back up camera, DIY shovel mount, diff breather mod and bottle opener.

 

Nice truck, and welcome to the site!

 

Welcome aboard!

 

Nice truck.. I went from Prius > Mini Cooper S > 2016 Tacoma

 

Welcome to the club and congrats!

 

F-200 eh? Cool truck.

In my eyes you got a steal on a clean looking truck. Welcome to the TW family, the off road family, and the mountain bike family! My buddy and I want to do a dual wheeling-mountain biking to Northern California and Oregon, seems beautiful up there.

And don't worry. The Tacoma doesn't beep at you every damn sevond you have it in reverse