bought a new truck today

Ya know, Never had a brand new truck.

homebrewz said:

Any frame issues with the old truck? Just curious.. I've been reading both good and bad stories about rusty frames in the late 90's to early 00's trucks.

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The program is a little confusing and nobody understands all of it, but if (when) the frame failed (hammer knocks a good dent or hole), Toyota would either buyback the truck at 1.5x KBB or replace the frame, depending on the year. Some folks had to jump through hoops, and the process went smoothly for others. As the original owner of a 2002, I got the undercoating in 2010, and that extends frame warranty to 15 years. I need my frame to fail before 2017!

Congrats to the OP on the new ride. Looks sweet!

Soundchasm said:

The program is a little confusing and nobody understands all of it, but if (when) the frame failed (hammer knocks a good dent or hole), Toyota would either buyback the truck at 1.5x KBB or replace the frame, depending on the year. Some folks had to jump through hoops, and the process went smoothly for others. As the original owner of a 2002, I got the undercoating in 2010, and that extends frame warranty to 15 years. I need my frame to fail before 2017!

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I've been reading both good and bad stories from around the web on the frame replacements. It seems Toyota is trying to bring the frame replacement campaign to an end leaving some folks out of luck and with a bad frame. I think some of it is from people not getting the undercoating in the specified time period. I've owned 4 Toyota trucks from '87 to '94, and I probably wouldn't get a late 90's to early 00's model unless I knew the frame had been replaced.

homebrewz said:

I've been reading both good and bad stories from around the web on the frame replacements. It seems Toyota is trying to bring the frame replacement campaign to an end leaving some folks out of luck and with a bad frame. I think some of it is from people not getting the undercoating in the specified time period. I've owned 4 Toyota trucks from '87 to '94, and I probably wouldn't get a late 90's to early 00's model unless I knew the frame had been replaced.

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The bad frames goes back to the body change half way through 1989. I had a 89 hi lux which had IFS but the whole TOYOTA badge on the grill instead of the logo that the '90 trucks got. The "recall". Only went back to mid '90s because of a statute of limitations on liability for craftsmanship or something like that. I have a friend who is a Toyota truck mechanic explain it to me. I ended up scraping my tuick for $500 because it just want safe to drive anymore.

Congratulations! My first and only brandy new truck was a '96 F250. I don't see another new one in my future.

NIce Truck hoss! a Tundra?


We had been looking at trading the little car in on a sedan but lately my wife is warming up to the idea of a pickup... Loaded full size is a bit out of budget and beyond our needs but im thinking a nice economical Tacoma might be worth a look.

My BIL bought an SR5 (2.5 L 4 cyl) used, way back in the 80's. The truck had never even seen a gravel road before then. He put almost 350K on it - that truck worked like crazy, hauled, towed - nice little workhorse. His brother bought it when there was nothing left of the body (rotted out), pulled the motor, and dropped it into another truck. They could not kill that thing.

Nice.

jharkin said:

We had been looking at trading the little car in on a sedan but lately my wife is warming up to the idea of a pickup... Loaded full size is a bit out of budget and beyond our needs but im thinking a nice economical Tacoma might be worth a look.

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Update: We put down a deposit on a Taco last weekend. Factory order, going to be a month but excited to join the new truck club with y'all!