Realistic life expectancy of a Tacoma?

I have a 2015 Tacoma Prerunner. V6, 4 door. Love it. Currently has 88k miles. Religiously maintained, synthetic in every orifice, garaged. Daily driver, with a few road trips every few months. I only tow things about once a year, no off road, or hard use.

How many miles do you think this truck will last?

 

If you keep up with preventative maintenance and repair things that break along the way...forever, unless rust gets it and it becomes a rolling junk heap.

I daily drove 30-40 year old Mercedes Diesels for 10 years. If you want to see what lasting engineering is, get a W123 Diesel or a Tacoma. I wouldn’t have gotten any other truck

 

Tree fiddy

 

For as long as you want, take care of it. 1,000,000+ miles.

 

My 93 Pickup was at 200K when a tree branch technically totaled it. But I was able to drive it home very safely with zero incidence. That was merely an economic calculus by insurance on a 14 YO truck. But that was a different era.

My 01 was stronger than ever at 150k, only sold because of growing family. The guy I sold it too recently reported back 3 years later that his Blackstone Lab report said it showed the best analysis results they have eve seen on a 5VZFE.

As stated above, rust continues to be a cause for concern an focus.

One of the most vulnerable components on the 15 1GFE is the secondary air injection pump. It can ingest it's own filter and crap the bed, stranding you in limp mode in the middle of nowhere. There's a mod for a simple external filter to avoid this. For earlier years there have been TSBs, 2012 is when that came out, I believe. There's a thread on this issue on the site.

Otherwise, keep up with PM and and TSBs/recalls, should go 300k or more.

This is why we still by Toyotas. Except Third gens.

 

Until rust takes it. Garaged, maintained and undercoated 350k+ with ease

 

600K miles

 

Until you wreck it or a few years after you get tired of maintaining it.

 

I keep seeing this undercoating stuff...is it necessary for a Florida truck?

 

Doesn’t hurt, and if you ever road trip to a place with salted road it’ll help. If not, no

 

I have a 1978 Land Cruiser, live 2 blocks from the Pacific Ocean and have 214,348 miles on it. It drives like a tank, but it still drives. Maintenance will go along way to keeping it drivable.

 

Do not use any paint-on type products. They trap moisture and enhance rusting.

If needed, soemthing like Fluid Film is often preferred, and they are other similar product.

Many thread on these.

 

Yes! Just the salt in the air down there will cause rust issues over time.

 

Keep your truck off of the beach.

 

interesting...my truck lived it’s entire life in central FL and no rust anywhere. I’ll look into coating it with fluid film one day soon.


Back to the original posters questions I suppose

 

I grew up in Homestead Florida rust was a thing. Maybe not so bad in central Florida.

 

On the west coast you can tell the trucks that go on the beach and haul fishing gear.

 

Agreed, Very much depends on location.

In Sunny California with occasional trips to the snow I have ZERO rust on my truck with minimal undercarriage maintenance (a hose down every couple months.)

I bought my 2011 new and it has 135k miles on it. I’m targeting 250k Miles and/or another 7-10 years before I even think About it not being a daily driver.

 

Exactly 215,311 miles.