New to Toyota Tacoma

Hello everyone! I’m so glad that I found this forum! I’ve previously owned 2 Ford Rangers, a 1993 and a 1999. I bought a 2023 Toyota Tacoma SR5 4 door V6 automatic transmission and it’s 2x4. After reading this forum I bought a new oil filter housing. A good friend of mine works at a repair shop and so I have access to a lift and all the other shop equipment. What are the must have upgrades for Tacomas? I’m not sure if my truck has a transmission cooler or not. I asked the dealer how much a transmission flush would cost and the service advisor looked freaked out. I explained that the reason I wanted to get new ATF is because the transmission was being broken in which means I have millions of flecks of metal roaming around my transmission fluid. I live in Florida and my biggest concern is over heating, or running hot. Decreasing transmission temp by 1-3 degrees exponentially increases the service life of the automatic transmission. Any advice or suggestions for a newbie like me would be greatly appreciated.

 

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Install the largest external cooler that will fit in front of the condenser/radiator. My prefence is the "stacked plate" type. I would hold off on any fluid changes until 50,000-60,000 miles and do a drain-and-fill only. Leave the internal filter, drain plug and pan alone. My preference for fluid would be OEM Toyota WS which some have indicated is Synthetic.

My non-Toyota vehicles get full-synthetic transmission fluid that says: "meets or exceeds Toyota Standard 'xxxxxx' " right on the bottle.