What Classifies For High Mileage?

Hey everyone, first time poster here so sorry if this is the wrong place to post this. Anyways, I am looking to purchase a tacoma. Coming over from a 2010 camaro, and I am ready for my first truck. I've been seeing a good number of late 2nd gens with 60k+ miles on them still bringing 20k+, so I was trying to determine what would be too high of mileage to consider? I am looking at a 2012 4x4 Texas Edition currently that has 88.5k on it and he is asking 18.5k for. Would this be a bad deal or? Thanks in advance everyone!

 

Welcome to TW.

You'll get many different answers here. A lot of people here are hardcore believers that these are 500,000+ mile vehicles.

Maybe I'm picky or paranoid but I wouldn't even look at one with one over 200k miles.

 

Yeah, Im trying to look at lower mileage ones only because Im just turning 18 soon so my parents will be helping to get this for me while I pay payments and would like to get something that'll last me some years so sub 100k would be grand for me. I just know on camaros, the average for a 2010 is around 80k and most anything over that is going to be cheap, for a reason. Just dont want to end up getting a tacoma that Ill run into problems with in a couple of months.

 

I'm also about your age, but I've had my Tacoma for almost a year here. Hate to say it but Daddy's money got me mine and I appreciate it daily, its a routine to double take when walking away from my truck. Mine came with about 176K miles on it. (Its an '06) It runs beautifully. Like amazingly well. Only issue that I can find or that I've fixed is the front wheel bearing is worn out. Had to replace it but that was a walk in the park thanks to helpful members here. I've almost put 20k miles on it by myself, most of that city, a good portion of it highway, and not a ton of offroad, but a fair amount. I'm a mountain biker who maintains and builds on our local trail, so regularly I'm cruisin down muddy powerlines and stuff to get into the woods. I would second the notion of trying to stay under 200k simply cause you'll easily get another 300k+ miles out of it, GIVEN you take care of it. It's pretty regular that I put my truck in the garage and run through the engine bay, make sure everything looks good, check oil, all of that jazz. If my dad is going to basically give me $16,000, I better take care of it like it's my damn baby!!

 

To me, miles don't mean shit when it comes to these trucks. If it has been taken care of, it will last as long as you want it to. I am baffled when people think 200k is high mileage on a tacoma....my old one had over 250k, and to me it was still low mileage...then again, i'm white trash, i like high mileage stuff...I actually dislike driving something with lower miles that hasn't "proven itself" to me yet

 

Yes you are likely to get answers all over the board. Bottom line, it depends on the maintenance history. Ask for service records. If they indicate the truck was cared for properly, I say 88,000 miles is nothing. Mileage generally does affect the price of a used vehicle, just not so much with certain vehicles. There are many examples of 2nd gens going 400,000 miles and beyond, running great the whole time, with good maintenance. Mine has 130,000 miles and runs like new, and I expect it to continue for a very long time cause I take good care of it. I understand for some people mileage may be a deal breaker regardless of service history, but most Tacoma owners will say these are good trucks, and as of yet you don't have any experience with them. Do some searching on known problems (frame rust, leaf springs, etc.) -- Toyota has issued recalls or TSBs for these problems, in certain years/models.

 

I bought my 13 DCSB TRD Sport with 113,000 miles on it. Changed all the fluids out and had the fuel system serviced (injectors cleaned) and shes good to go.

 

My first couple of Toyotas each had some miles on them when I got them. The FJ40 was probably >200K (only 5 digit odometer, so it's a guess) and the '91 was just at 100K when I bought it in 2000.

I sold the FJ40 after about a year, just wasn't my thing. I kept the 1991 until 2015 and it had close to 300K on it when I sold it to a friend who uses it as a daily beater as a landscape crew foreman. Point is, on old Toyotas 100K wasn't anything to worry about.

I got my 2008 Taco in 2015 with about 45K on the clock, which to me was basically brand new for a Toyota. But honestly I think condition-wise it was about the same as my 1991 was when I got it. So I think now >100K on a newer Toyota is a trigger for high mileage maintenance considerations.

It's not that the trucks now are bad but I don't think they are nearly as over built as the old ones were so you have to expect to do more stuff earlier and more often. As an example the wheel bearings on my old truck went 200K and even then they weren't failed but starting to show wear. They were the old style tapered cone that you tore apart and regreased periodically. So when I bought it I spent an afternoon and $40 in grease and seals instead of $350 in new hubs like I'm doing with the 2008 at 75K.

OTOH, the timing chain in the old 22R-E was something you needed to inspect at 100K because they had a tendency to fail. And you had to pull the valve cover and adjust the valves every year or two. I think engines have improved greatly with less needed, so not everything back then was better.

 

Between 30,000 and 300,000 depending on how well it was cared for.

 

My 87 Toyota pickup was retired to a junkyard at 485k but not because of how it ran. It just plain rusted apart. My 93 pickup was traded in for my current Tacoma at 426k. It looked and drove great even with that many miles on it. Now, my 2006 has just over 213k on it, and it still runs like new. As long as you keep them maintained, there's no reason 500k isn't doable. I plan on at least another 200k with this one, and at that time, I'll look for another 2nd gen with something less than 200k.

 

Over 200k on a Toyota and 100k on a Ford, Chevy and Chrysler