You need to read up on that Tacoma fiasco. My step dad got stuck with one, bought it brand new. Took it in for the first recall, and all Toyota did was spray pixie dust inside the frame rails. Didn't fix a thing and a few years later he took it back because he noticed rust again. Dealership told him they'd done all they could. He died last year, and one of the last things he mentioned was that he was afraid to drive the truck. When I went back to settle the estate, I couldn't believe what I saw under there. From the driver's door back to the rear shock mount, the bottom of the frame rail was GONE! The sides of the rail were delaminating all the way to the top. Looked like the pages of a book blowing in the wind. Toyota used a hollow frame rail with no provision for draining the salt infested water common on Ohio winter roads. When they got caught, they shined it on and did next to nothing about it. When I called about an extended service campaign, I was told it was too late to do anything, even though the old man had taken it back to the dealership and had the problem "fixed" during both recalls. Toyota has already lost one class action, and there's another one starting to remedy all the people Toyota screwed with their bad design and failure to fix it right the first two times they tried. I like Toyota vehicles and have had good service from two of their trucks. But they really screwed the pooch on this one.
