Defects of Tacooma that everyone should look at

[Locutus]

I commend those of you that are willing to, or have repaired this defect on your own, however I am not. We have all paid enough for these trucks to expect them to be built correctly. Mine will be fixed next week, by a dealer (I hope they don't cause any other issues)).

Since 1981 I have owned 13 Toyota cars and trucks. I have never had to return to a dealer, soon after purchase, for any defect or repair reason with those vehicles. That's why we buy Toyotas. It seems, sadly, that exceptional quality has changed recently with the use of low cost labor and parts suppliers.

What types of defects, and how many, are we willing to accept, and repair ourselves? if I wanted to spend hours at a dealer having my truck "fixed" over and over I would have bought a different brand (Ford, Chevy, Jeep).

I'm old enough that this may be my last truck. So far I think this is mostly a great truck. Those of you that need transmissions replaced , or other major defects corrected, probably don't think so.

If I buy another, I will be doing a lot of research and not just going Toyota automatically after a quick look!

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[TacoFreak]

My truck only has one of the known defects - a bed side top cap which is warped. My dealer ordered it before I picked it up, but it is back ordered by hundreds of units. After 10 months of production you would think that kind of stuff would be sorted out. My cowling and window trim are all perfect though, so they seem to have those figured out.

But other than that mine is very well made, with great paint and panel fit everywhere. We all took on a certain level of risk in buying the first totally new Tacoma since the 2005 2nd gen. But for me it is all positive and my truck is beautiful and works great in every respect.

So I wouldn't write off Toyota just yet, unless they fail to fix their mistakes. In the long run I have never been let down by them and my next truck will almost surely be a Tacoma. Other truck makers, particularly Ford are having much higher levels of problems. Divided evenly over 90 days, last quarter Ford spent $35 million per day on warranty work. I don't think Toyota is anywhere near that.