What's the worst decision you've made with your Tacoma?

Thinking the price I paid the dealer would be the total cost, not realizing the 10-20% additional for "required" mods

 

I knew going in I was going to have to spring for tires - but I never expected the tsunami of extras I was soon going to be bankrolling....

 

Locker and lots of gas pedal.

 

So far , Red threadlock

 

Not as dramatic as some of the photos in this thread, but taking a 2wd Limited into soupy mud on the stock Michelin's was not the best decision I've made.

 

Need to take it at more speed or else you will get trapped.

 

The worse decision I made was going wheeling in my month old Taco with a mostly Jeep group on a “stock friendly” run. Stock friendly for a Jeep is not stock friendly for a Tacoma.

My rear bumper got torn off, but it gave me an excuse to go steel, so it was a win in the end. Driving my brand new truck around with zip-ties holding the bumper together was pretty-budget looking until my new bumper arrived.

 

One would think so but for some reason they offer 2wd TRD Off Roads. Makes no sense at all.

 

That's why it's call regret, it was too late.

 

Waiting so long to purchase it. First truck and loving it.

 

I think the fact that there are 2WD off roads largely proves that true. Most people that actually use their trucks to off-road upgrade most components regardless of which model they buy.

 

Buying it

 

Went on a solo trip to go check if my locker worked
It didn’t

 

A Jeep is no more a 4X4 than a Tacoma, it all has to do with "Tires and height" I had a simple '89 Toyota 4X4 pickup back in the early '90s, 30" tires with tractor threads and had to help those big Chevy's with 44"ers out of mudholes.

It has nothing to do with the Tacoma being "inferior"

 

I never said it was inferior. The Tacoma approach and departure angles are terrible in comparison to a stock Jeep, hence, me tearing off my rear bumper in cross-ditches on a “stock friendly” Jeep run with my stock Tacoma.

They made it through no problem.

 

Driving to a mud hole I had no business being in.
Plus, not engaging 4x4 before I enter didn’t help.
Sunk it past the axles. Expensive tow bill.

I guess, not paying attention, and backing straight in to a Semi Flatbed trailer counts too?

 

I've been pretty lucky in my first 100k miles, I think my worst decision was trying to slowly get out of my driveway with 22" of fresh snow. Took a lot of digging to get back in the garage and only 20 seconds or so of giving 'er hell to make it the 100 yards to the road after that.

 

Been there!

That redneck solution was my look as well, after getting rear-ended, until this past weekend - steel booty ftw.