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campbellcooks · Sep 18, 2016

Hello Folks,

Long time lurker first time poster.

Don't own a tacoma yet but I have been using this site as a resource to find my perfect truck.

Im located in Western Canada and have been looking for a reliable truck to take me all the places I love to hunt, fish, and camp. Im in a "buy it for life" phase and after all of my research theres no doubt the Tacoma is built to last and the truck for me.

Im looking at something in the early 2000's, (1st Gen) low KMS, 150000 or less but would settle for something closer to 200000 if it made sense. 4x4 is a must and could go either way on automatic/manual transmission. Not really into the offroading, but having driven a manual for many years I wouldn't mind the ease of an auto. Preferably looking for something in BC or AB to avoid shipping costs and out of province inspections. My budget is $10,000 CDN, could go up a few thousand for the right truck.

Am I dreaming? or do you guys think I can find something in this range?

Cheers!

Campbell

PS. A fellow Tacoma owner friend told me to buy after 2000 as there was some big changes that were made around this time, can anyone shed some more light on that or direct me to a thread?

DrFunker · Sep 18, 2016

This is interesting. From the "Waiting for a 2018" thread.

Howanic said: ↑

For historical correctness:

I borrowed this from 3dBdown post on another thread, I cant take credit for these statistics:

Except the stats just don't show that to be solid reasoning. Two sources --problems per 100 cars. Same basic results with a couple of years being slightly different. 1st year of 1st gen is among the most reliable as is the 1st year of 2nd gen--definitely way better than some later years. 3rd gen --too soon to tell

You would need to wait ~8 years to get a "more" reliable 2nd gen than 1st year.

1st gens are a wash. Pretty dang reliable all around, but later years did trend toward slightly more problems than early years.

Easily worth the risk getting a 1st year though--based on historical statistics/facts. No real reason to wait.

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jwctaco · Sep 18, 2016

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