About to buy my first Taco, check out the candidates!

^^Not necessarily.

There are good deals to be had craigslist, all the time. Trust me, I know. I am on there quite a lot. Often times, the ones with scams have no phone number, a very exaggerated ad, and a price of almost 70 % below book. 9000k doesnt seem to suspicisous IMHO, especially with it having 175k miles.

It all depends on location..

 

do not buy a supercharged Nissan! You will regret it.
reg. nissan trucks are good, I had a 87 as a spare, you just have to watch out for rust.

just keep looking, the right truck will come along, be careful of craigslist, and check out ebay, but use only high rated buyers.
because of demand tacomas fetch a higher price, than nissans, just always look before leaping.

 

Ok so good news, it was a misunderstanding and im looking at it tomorrow at 7pm.

I have to try to not be in love with it too much, so i can point out all the bad things and get it for $8,500 Poker face is right!

Ill update y'all tomorrow after deal or no deal time. Wish me luck guys!

 

I wish that I was closer to you, I would love to sell you mine. http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/buy-sell-trade/214318-fs-2003-tacoma-trd-sr5-3-4l-4wd-xtra-cab.html

 

NO BRAINER!!!! BLACK V6 for SURE

 

oh man she is a beaut for sure, good luck selling!

 

Great news guys! I am now the owner of the 2004 x-cab 5 spd 6cyl! I made a deal for $8500. I am beyond excited to start learning about and modifying my truck. I'm picking it up tomorrow I'll post pics here!

 

Congratulations man! Welcome to the club! Good deal on the truck. Now let the addiction begin and the money flow. Have fun with it.

 

Sweet an congrats!! Kiss your wallet goodbye haha let the mods begin!

 

Heres some pics from my first day with my new baby





I love that all the windows open on the shell, it makes loading/unloading way easy

 

Congrats!!!

 

Windoors are awesome. Wish I had them

Beautiful truck... you got a great deal

 

So what should i look for to begin with? i want to get it clean and solid THEN mods!

 

drive it for a while. take it wheeling. play with it and have fun with it. In that time save up money for whatever truck mods you want to do and see what parts are going bad, making noise, being problematic ect. A month after i bought my new truck i had to replace the starter, sure didn't expect that to happen. Other than that i have changed a belt and that's it as a far as maintenance goes. Everything else feels good. Before you dump cash into it get to know it pretty well, then you will know what direction you want to take the truck when you decide to start spending money on it.

do you only have trd decals on the passenger side? I dont see big white letters on the drivers side. In the craigslist ad i dont remember it saying anything about having a diff lock, which would be a very important thing to list if it had it.

 

Yeah, its a trd, has diff lockers. It had a paint repair, but i plan on getting some new stickers in the future

 

Since everyone covered the maintnence side of things

It's a v6 right? Do the deck plate mod

Look up grey wire mod like mentioned.

And day time running light mod.

Maybe black out your emblems if that interests you? Plasti dip

Then start saving money for whatever direction you decide to go. Congrats again man! Let the modding begin!

 

Congrats buddy. I'm surprised no one mentioned changing your diff. fluids and relocating the rear diff. breather and of course my favorite mod so far is the fog light mod

 

Thanks for the input guys i feel very at home here

I gave her a thorough detail on the outside & engine bay today, the truck is in really good shape considering it has 175k

im planning on deck plate mod this week, soon some billy's and rear aal's the suspension is just sad on it now haha! I absolutely love this thing i used to drive a passat and i hated not being able to do anything to it! Ive wanted a taco for like 4 yrs now so this is a dream finally come true

 

HAHA you have had it for a day now. What happened to clean and solid then mods? The little mod itch has bitten huh?

glad you're happy with your dream come true!

 

Haha maybe just a little... I washed it, waxed it, took the shell off, cleaned the shell, put the shell back on, and washed it again. I'm officially obsessed.