New Tupperware 2017 4x4 Pickup

This is 2 minutes of my life I'll never get back!

 

That's crazy-talk. I've owned a bunch of Toyota trucks, and I'd put the 3.0 squarely on the bottom. Head gasket made motor go boom at 100k miles and I went through 2 of those aluminum MAF things in 200k miles. It was also noisy and gutless. My 90 was my first brand new 4x4 and I loved it, but that motor wasn't great.

I've still got an 86 that is in great shape with a 22r. Driving it for a day makes you really LOVE the new truck. Toyotas have always been great and I love them all, but they're nicer to drive now than they've ever been. Just hope they still last as long.

 

I think sarcasm is lost over the internet lol

 

I have to admit, and its pretty embarrassing, that I didn't realize the beds were composite. I assumed they just all came with the plastic bed liners standard (which I thought was pretty sweet). None of the research I did highlighted that, and I guess I never thought to ask.

I dont have a problem it. My mind was just blown when someone on here mentioned it. At least you never have to worry about it rusting.

 

Here is a Ridgeline video where they dump a bunch of landscaping blocks in the rear. No damage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNSxStkPGvs

 

I have to agree here. Working on my past Fords, it wasn't unusual to break plastic parts when working on them. Today, I pulled the a/c control panel and radio so I could run the power wire for my gps behind them instead of having it in front of the radio. I watched a video online on how to do it. I ended up having to remove the center console also when one of the radio bolts fell down the abyss in front of the console. Never did find the dam* thing, using magnets and lights. Just replaced the bolt with a new one. They build all vehicles with those holes that eat everything you drop. NEVER did break a plastic part, though.

 

Those metal trucks are so good, amiright?

 

Yeah it's across the board in order to meet EPA standards, the use of Plastic, Aluminium, and Composites are only going to increase.

 

How does that even happen? Rogue javelin perhaps?

 

That's where the AM/FM antenna is located(notice the oval clean cut hole). My guess is something caught it(carwash, mad ex-wife?) and tore it back. Doesn't surprise me as its just thin aluminum sheet metal. Good thing ours are on the roof!

 

There is a pic somewhere of this truck as that Antenna was caught in an automatic carwash and there is deep scratches all the way down the side as well.....

 

Ah wow, I always thought people overreacted about the aluminum body on the F150s, but that is some scary shit if a car wash can rip your antenna out like that.

 

There is a Tacoma on here that some guy took thru an automatic car wash and it caved the bed side in, looked like he got run into by a truck, they keep making the metal thinner to reduce weight.

 

Lets face it the exterior on cars today even trucks is just a thin veil for looks. None of it is structural or going to protect you, its all the stuff underneath the pretty painted surfaces that matters. Still I would be pissed if a car wash did thousands in damage to my car like that.

 

Shocking I know... but you can drive a knife straight in, and pull right down. You could skin a door rather quickly.

 

Return it before it's too late!