i'm enjoying the retirement adventure as well. so will the Tundra be the only vehicle? my '92 Toyota 4x4 (earlier to Tundra or Tacoma) has 302k original. keep the adventure going, the 1st several yrs of my retirement were prob the most productive ever. enjoy
No, we have a 2018 Outback for a 'daily' driver and an old Matrix my youngest will take to Tech next year. In the meantime, I will drive the Matrix to work the rest of this semester. It is a basic model with a manual transmission, so fun to drive...if a bit austere by today's standards.
Just got home with the truck. I'll add pictures later. The previous owners apparently pulled a 5th wheel with it, so if we ever decide we need something like that, it has the hitch and the plug in the bed. I doubt I will need it, but it is there. Also has the bed extender. Again, not sure if I will ever use it, but for us it is more likely than the 5th wheel.
I was pretty happy with the way it ran on the way home. The dealership was about 1.5 hours away, so we got some time on the highway with it. The engine was very smooth and much quieter than we expected. The driving position is very good for me. Our old Ranger gave less visibility at half the size. The front came with a cavernous box rather than the fold down 'bench' seat option. I can see usefulness either way. We would have liked to get the TRD off road edition, but the couple that we saw for sale around here were northern transplants.
@Oaktree Sorry you had trouble with your work truck. There are a lot of things people say about the Tundra, but POS is rarely one of them. It has a much better reliability record than its peers and it may lack some of the modern refinements and it has bad gas mileage, but it seems like it will do the trick for us. Every model has bad individuals, but the odds are in our favor. We looked at a 2005 in Tyler, but it was severely rusted. The truck had been in VT and NY prior. We usually don't even look at a vehicle from up that way. It confirmed our suspicions.
