Should I Paint My Tacoma? Need Advice

If baremetal and clear coat are flaking off, wrap is probably out of the picture. Surface needs to be clean and no issues for wrap to adhere the best to.

Paint sounds like your best option bud

 

With the Monstaliner line of products, you could do it up like the Partridge Family bus..

 

Do you have a technical high school nearby? They typically are looking for vehicles to work on and you'd be very surprised how good of a job they do. I had my former truck stripped and painted 3/4 ton Dodge Cummins and it cost me $1250.00 and that was a base coat clear coat With PPG deltron paint (higher end paint). The downside was that it took time, quite a bit of it but the results were good.