Keeping Your 3Gen For A Long Time?

We are shopping right now for a 2021 to replace our 09 Tacoma TRD sport that has almost 197k on it. We have had zero issues with the truck. This is why we are only looking at another Tacoma.

 

I've got a black Ford Ranger as well. Good trucks, Bought it new in 98 and still in mint condition.

For OP, I keep all my vehicles a long time and maintain them a little between old school and new. Usually before and more often than the recommended schedule. It's what I'm comfortable with and it works for me. On my new Taco, I did break in oil change at 1200mi. Isn't really needed but its what you did years ago so I just stick with it. Do what's comfortable and works for you. Some will say a waste of money but I own 4 vehicles that have been in the family since new and all run great. One is a 87, 88, 98 and my 2017. So far, no major drive train problems with any of them

 

Jokes, I'm sure my truck is fine. And yours for that matter...

 

Very good video and I agree, did/do everything he recommends.

But there is just one thing I can’t fully agree on and that is that your car is your second biggest “investment”. A vehicle is not an investment for the average buyer unless you’re a buyer/dealer for profit. But I digress…

Other than that I’m kool with what he says.

Moreover, the video puts most of what you need to know in a way you can digest it in a small period of time vs reading a manual written by people who have no clue what really happens to a vehicle after it leaves the factory floor.

Cheers!

 

I did a rough break in procedure, done it to all my bikes and small engines. Solid

 

I followed the break-in procedure(s) listed in the manual. Did it's first oil change at 5K miles, mainly for my own piece of mind. I tend to keep my vehicles a very long time, however my thought is to see what the new Tundra is like and maybe trade for one after they've been out for a year or so. Time will tell though as the more I drive my Taco, the more I like it.

 

I to want to keep my Tacoma for as long as I can..and I will keep it service as recommended...

just that technology is advancing so fast...what will the future of Trucks /Tacoma’s will be like?
Considering electric vehicles may one day be the norm...?

A Mon & Pops ..store nearby..owner had 1976 Ford Bronco...every year ..people will stop and ask if he will sell it... He said why sell it it runs great...then he added..many of my friends buy new cars..spending thousands of dollars..every couple of years...while he kept his Bronco...He finally had to close his door ,wife was sick...there were in 70’s...after 40 years of ownership...he sold it...
The amount he save from NOT buying a new vehicles ...invaluable...

I hope all of you have some kind savings plan , 401’s,IRA’s,or some kind of investment plans...because one day..you will want your retirement comfortable ... The time will fly...like a blink of a eye...
Old people understand this...just ask any of them...!
Aloha

 

I can see both sides of the 'keep it forever' or 'keep it 'till it's paid-for argument'. For me, my Tacoma is my first brand-new car or truck (I tend to buy my Motorcycles new since I find proper break-in to be crucial on those). Previously I've bought used cars and trucks which were a couple of years old, kept them maintained and still have several of them now. However over the past year or so I've found myself doing a lot more four-wheeling and I started to worry that my previous 4wd wasn't reliable enough, at 22 years old and with 220K miles on it for solo trips into the mountains or the desert. A 4wd Taco fit the bill exactly and has taken me to many places I wouldn't have dared take my previous 4wd.

That said, I'm a Gear Head with a couple of other cars and trucks which I enjoy wrenching on and driving. Just tonight my GF, her kid and I jumped in my '93 T100 for a quick ride down to the beach to have dinner, which was cool since that truck was my first car (er, truck) which I've had since '95 and used to drive to High School! Lots of great memories in that truck and tonight, driving on PCH with my girl sitting on the bench seat next to me, her surly teenager who kept asking why we didn't just take his Mom's SUV sitting next to her and forcing both of them to listen to songs from something called a 'CD' was a lot of fun!

For me, I have a couple of vehicles I hope to keep until I'm done driving. I have others which fill a need for now and down the road will likely be sold or traded for other vehicles. Everyone makes the decisions which are right for them.

 

Nothing he said was ground breaking. He kinda skimmed over the severe conditions bit. I'd be willing to bet the majority of us fall into that category putting us into the 5,000 mile oil change interval.

As far as break in goes, Engineering Explained did a much better job.

 

Keeping mine a long time, in fact might be my last truck for retirement.

 

Kids often seem to feel this way. Give it a few years and you’ll begin to understand.

 

I keep my trucks a long time. Still have a 1999 Ford Ranger has 187K, runs like a top, thanks to not driving it in the extreme salt/chemical winters here. THAT is what lease or winter beaters are for.
Now my 2020 coma I got an hour and a half away. I did heat cycle it a number of times and kept the highway miles to a minimum. Got home and changed out all the fish oil in the engine and drive axles.
So, IF Toyota did their job....this techno wonder should last a few hundred thousand miles.

Side note: I used to design and test motorcycle exhaust systems. We would get mew bikes in, Heat cycle them several times and onto the dyno they went. Personally, 3 of those were my bikes. Those dyno mules went on to do hundreds of zero to redline pulls
All 3 of them still running just fine, in fact my GSXR still turns dead on times at the 1/4 mile and the engine has never been opened up. The other a harley is still on its stock crank although I have modded the complete top end for more power also runs dead on at the strip. The YZF as far as I know is still ticking.

Those of us that are classified as "Geezers" had no choice BUT to learn how to work on our vehicles. Times do change with all the crap they cram into these trucks...sometimes I think I made a mistake getting this computer on wheels and maybe I should have got a mid 70's Ford F250 High Boy. Simple... 4 leaf springs and 2 wires to the coil.....I hate to be put into a position where my thousands of dollars of tools cant be put to good use.

 

I think the more appropriate old time quote would be this:

"When I was a young Man my Father was pretty stupid. As my Father grew older he became a genius."

 

lol the scrambler is actually make favorite truck. gladiator is wack

 

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

—Mark Twain

 

That is the one, thanks

 

I very much despise 5 minute videos that could have placed an equivalent amount of information in a 15 second paragraph, and I silently judge the people who post them.

 

this is the first new car i have ever bought. i am planning to keep it until it stops running.

 

Some folks rather trust whoever shows up on YouTube than to read the manual for themselves.

The MTV generation are the 40 somethings of today, so I guess their kids are the YouTube generation.

Microwave 'cooking', sound bytes and Tweet talk.

While no one cares, I strongly expect my '13 to be my last truck. It just turned 33k.

Only two 'early out' possibilities. Someone totals it. Or one of my grands cons it out of me.

 

I'm the MTV generation here. I remember the day my grandfather called me out as a dumbshit for grabbing a calculator to do basic arithmetic when I should have figured out the answer in the time it took to reach across the table, and I guess its my turn for thinking the younger crowd are dumbshits for avoiding any literate thought longer than 250 characters. Why even bother with a table of contents? Thats like hard, and stuff. Lemme just post a question here and wait an hour before someone points me to the right video, and someone else 15 posts later tells me to scroll to 14:32 to get my answer.

Its only a matter of time before it hits technical and scientific papers. I swear, the first time I have to peer-review something on Youtube - "Hey whassup fellas, I'm about to drop a fire new method for quantifying amorphous content by X-Ray Diffraction, but first like and subscribe to my channel for all your science shit..." that's the day where I'm packing it up and becoming a hermit. I'm halfway there already.

Hopefully my truck lasts that long, you know, since I'm following the recommendations of the paper manual and not some esteemed youtube dude with 25k followers.