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atxman

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So i started looking around for small pickups, and the best one imo is the 01-04 body style tacoma... but wow, they are freaking expensive.. - i dont like the nbs tacomas, they look cheap.

 

im looking at 03 double cab, 4wd, trd package and its nearly $20k, it has very low miles (50k).. everything is stock so its a +++ factor.

 

 

but i think they were like 25-27k new... if only my truck depreciated the way this thing does..

 

 

 

any comments, opinions on the 01-04 tacoma's.

mkelly Enthusiast

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They are expensive because there arent that many of them.

 

 

 

Although they were the best selling small truck for those years because of the rust issues a large number of them were taken off the used market.

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i recently sold my 03 toyota tacoma for $10,000, it had 250,000km(which is alot where im from because the roads are horrible), plus it failed inspection and needs about $2000 work done to it. sold it in 2 hours haa! :uhoh:

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Tacomas and Jeeps seem to hold their value very well. The tacoma will run forever, have a friend that has one with 350k miles and running on 3 cylinders, but it still runs lol. I'd watch for frame rot, as my shop teacher when i was in school has a 2005 tacoma with some major frame rot. Had he truck on the lift and we found 4-5 spots where the frame was completely rotten through, one hole being 3-4" big. Supposedly some of the frames recalled were used on 2005s.

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Tacomas and Jeeps seem to hold their value very well. The tacoma will run forever, have a friend that has one with 350k miles and running on 3 cylinders, but it still runs lol. I'd watch for frame rot, as my shop teacher when i was in school has a 2005 tacoma with some major frame rot. Had he truck on the lift and we found 4-5 spots where the frame was completely rotten through, one hole being 3-4" big. Supposedly some of the frames recalled were used on 2005s.

 

there was a recall on alot of the 03 tacomas as well, the chassis use to rust out on them. Mine was looked at but there wasnt enough damage so they just put a under-coating on it to protect it from rott

Itsme7 Enthusiast

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Yep, the recall was for 95.5-04 tacomas i believe. I guess depending on location would dictate on how bad the chassis is. Surface rust isnt too bad, some undercoating will fix that. But when you tap on the frame with a hammer and the hammer goes through the frame, you have problems lol. Just going over the whole frame on my teacher's 05 tacoma, found some holes, 1 being 3-4" big! They at first wanted to just swap the frame out on his truck, but he demanded a trade in, and got the 1 1/2x book value.

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I had one. Very nice truck if a relatively small truck is what you need. I put a small coilover lift on mine (Bilstein) and 32s. Looked nice, drove nice, very dependable, not as good gas mileage as you might think (on the 3.4 V6, I average 17.8 in mixed driving).

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