Low miles

To be fair, Carfax only knows what is reported to it. It's a great guide but don't take it as gospel.

 

It's hard to say for this car, probably not worth the risk.

 

In 2011 I bought a brand new Subaru Forrester that was located for me in Michigan and delivered to our Ohio dealership. We had already driven a Forester locally and in my wifes excitement she didn't want to wait until I got home from work so she went up and picked up the car herself. When I pulled into the driveway there sat our brand new maroon Forrester with the back of the car full of poorly filled dings and dents and tape lines from where they half assed taped off the car before repainting the one rear quarter, rear bumper and tailgate. Most of my family are mechanics and bodymen, myself included. I immediately saw this and went after the dealership. We parked the car in the garage where it would sit for 3 months never driven while we fought back and forth with Subaru. Back then Subaru's slogan was "Feel the Love". We never felt any with them. We were finally able to make them take the car back and give us another one. Someone in corporate said the car was probably damaged in transit from Michigan and neither dealership would except responsibility over what happened. It only had around 200 miles on it.
The replacement Forrester was a piece of junk we got rid of 4 or 5 months later with anti lock brake issues. The car would try to spin out when braking on wet and icey roads. My wife completely lost control driving it and wouldn't get back in it. I had it lock up as well on a slushy street and had to keep it from spinning out. Subaru said we didn't know how to drive and implied it was our fault. We got rid of the car and never had another one do that since.
I would let a mechanic and another body shop look at the Tacoma before buying it.

 

yep. unfortunately, many people either believe it's gospel, or it's been implied that there's some sort of legal requirement that every agency reports everything to carfax. which is the main reason i keep that link to post. at one point, i was also under the same impression, until i went to buy a replacement vehicle long ago, insisted on only looking at vehicles with clean carfax records, and then later learned that my selection had rear end damage that was never reported.

the reality is that it's really just a car history gossip record. some things make it, some things don't and never will. in my experience, bringing any prospective car purchase to a local body shop for an inspection will generally reveal more of it's history than carfax ever will.

 

Use toyota.com, plenty of trucks around the nj area still.

 

I wouldn't buy that one you found despite the price or mileage.

Right Toyota in Scottsdale, AZ has dozens of '23 Tacoma's on their lot. Several dealers still have them. You'll might have to look out of state to find one with options you want.

 

Yeah AZ is a little too far for me being I’m in the NEast… I have another I saw ‘22 for almost the same price , I’m going to have a look

 

I was 'the other' party of accidents twice, once in 3/2020 and then my wife actually in 1/2021. Both cases it was the other party's fault. In both cases CARFAX was stinking to the sky 'fishy'. The first car ended up (my tacoma) in a body shop - totaled by the insurance company and arranged - trade by the Toyota Car Dealership, and the jimmy-rigged repair was never reported nor the 'totaling' by the insurance to CARFAX. months later that just p-me-off and so I reported it to CARFAX with pictures and insurance totaling settlement statement. CARFAX was reluctant as if they had an interest in non-reporting it. The second car was a Toyota Corolla (2020 model) which was also totaled by the accident 1/30/2021 that my wife had - she was broadsided. no one was hurt. But there again, the car actually ended up being repaired (12,000$ repair quote by the Toyota authorized body shop on a car that was valued $14,500). You wonder about the repair. It needed a new steering rod and connection... thingy - don't know what they call that. It was all bent up by the accident - front wheel was hit pretty hard and everything behind it was just destroyed. Nothing aligned. I tried to drive the car and I was steering right, the car swerved off to the left at random. That crazy. But anywho... I contacted CARFAX and reported the totaling sent pics and the insurance totaling. That was in 2021. If you look it up today, it's probably still not reported, it was not showing reported in 2022... So I wouldn't be surprised. I believe the Insurance companies and toyota have something going with CARFAX - possible some kind of scheme scam.. Don't know for sure, but I just find that very telling and suspicious behavior. Maybe CARFAX is just not thorough in following through with their reporting entries?

 

Would it not be smarter to just buy brand new one ? and also which Tacoma are they selling you 40K for? it better be V6 for that price.

 

Maybe his wife was pissed and made him return it?

 

I nearly ditched mine a few weeks after buying it. Smart people realize that if it ain't quite what you hoped for, the sooner you bail, the less you're going to lose. At that point, I probably could have sold the truck essentially for what I paid for it, I would have lost sales tax essentially. But I am dumb and sunk cost fallacy is a favorite past time of mine so I decided to wait it out a bit and see if I just need to get used to it. No way I should be underwhelmed coming from a NA 2nd gen Forester with 207,000 miles, right?

Now that I am a year and some mods in and just "meh" about it (other than looks...sharp truck...), I should have bailed. Now the debate is, is it worth $6-8k to be out of this finally; or with that number being ~4x what it was, do I double down with sunk cost and hang around here to complain?

 

Bought my 2017 back in 2019 with 12,000 miles. I drive 40-50k a year. I now have 209,000 miles. Manual off road. Still original rear drums an pads, original clutch. nothing but oil changes and routine maintenance. Not one trip back to the dealership. Carfax is a great resource but you never know
a vehicles real story.

 

I was going for the ‘23 TRD , but switched to the ‘22 SR5. 12,000 miles $35k + tax , it came with the roof rails & bed cover , 3” lift kit and a few more things …the ‘23 came bare plus I had concerns about it

 

Test drive x3 at various speeds.

 

have it looked over first, some folks are hacks with aftermarket items, especially lifts.

 

THIS ^^^^^ Especially RIGHT NOW. The time is right to get a great deal on a NEW 2023, but the inventory is dwindling.

 

Remember the ‘23’s are the last of the V6’s it all 4 cyl in ‘24