Topic: You know you drive a Toyota when...

[85_4RNR]

This is a great thread that was on another toyota board. Contribute any you can think of.

Ill start.

Reverse takes a few trys to get in

You stare at every toyota...weather it be lifted, stock, or rustbucket

youre in 3rd gear by the end of intersection

People are amazed that your  25 yr old truck on 35s can get 22mpg which is better than their vehicles most of the time.

[toe]

You don't think twice about towing a 1200lb trailer with a 2900 lb car and 500 lbs in the bed cross-country in a 16 year old truck with a 4 cylinder engine with over 130,000 miles on it...................

[85_4RNR [OP]]

  thats awesome. my friends 22r 85 pickup pulled a 93 4runner but nowhere near that long of a distance.

[BoG-ToY]

mine got 19mpg, but it was sitting on 35x16x15 tires... over 500lbs of tire and rim. Also, I did alot of cruzin around at 80 with those tires on, and airsoft beads DO work, becuase I  totally had NO lead on those rims

[46&2]

You don't have to change the oil because your truck burns so much oil

[unclejpl4x4]

You don't have to change the oil because your truck burns so much oil

so true  every month my truck gets a oil change

[axled89]

when it starts every time.  and gets you home.

[86rustbucket]

.....when your runnin a trail and the only jeep in sight is upside down

[NorCalToy]

When people are jealous of how good your IFS truck wheels compared to there own other brand vehicle

[Travis H]

when 135k miles is low.

[Travis H]

when your 23 year old 4runner is worth as much as a 2003 car.

[Travis H]

when you would rather have the 4cly motor than the v6

[Travis H]

when you see another toyota truck on the road you stare at it, and then you realize the other guy is looking right back at your truck.


my last one for now.

[sparkys83yota]

When you park your 2008 nissan titan in garage and use your 83 that marlin built this year as a daily driver.

[iNfErNaL]

when you would rather have the 4cly motor than the v6

      

[germ]

When your neighbor comes over and asks if you'd be nice enough to come pull his full sized, 4x4 [insert make here] out of the lake bed, and in a single pull, you yank him out and the rest of the neighbors stand there slack jawed.

[germ]

Your daughter wakes up, rubbing her eyes while your driving down the road and says; "what was that bump daddy?" and you kind-of smile and reply "go back to sleep sweetie, it was just a Honda".

[yota_krawler]

when your time spent on marlincrawler.com is almost at a month

when you know when 1st gens changed head lights from round to sqare

when you try and talk all your buddys into getting rid of thier pile for a 4runner or pickup

when you get excited to wrench or fab or weld or hell fix something broken.

when you look on CL and someone is trying to sell a yota and they post the wrong year, and you say "its a 90 not an 89 dumbass"

[46&2]

[locked 4x4]

These are awsome

[Travis H]

these are all great especially the last one.

when your time spent on marlincrawler.com is almost at a month

when you know when 1st gens changed head lights from round to sqare

when you try and talk all your buddys into getting rid of thier pile for a 4runner or pickup

when you get excited to wrench or fab or weld or hell fix something broken.

when you look on CL and someone is trying to sell a yota and they post the wrong year, and you say "its a 90 not an 89 dumbass"

[kneedownnate]

when your time spent on marlincrawler.com is almost at a month

Try around 4 1/2 months  

When your rear end locks up on a dirt road when you break a ring and pinion, you back up and keep going, tighten the pinion nut when you get home and keep driving it, then a few months later it does the same - rinse, lather, repeat, then when it lets go 40 miles from home for the last time sending a piece through the housing draining the oil, you're still able to drive it home.

When you're able to drive your truck with oil mixing into the coolant for 1 1/2 years before you decide to fix it, change the head and get another few years out of it before a rod bearing lets loose... at about 370,000 miles.

[SLIVER]

......you run a trail and the only jeep gets left there because it's broken.

......on the freeway the car next to you is playing the "Evens Game" with you and when it finally annoys you enough that you turn your head to look at the person driving the exact same speed as you, you get two thumbs up from the dude driving because you are driving a kick ass 4runner!!!!!

It happens to me all the time actually.

))--SLIVER-->

[yota_krawler]

when you "race" to see who is slower in 4lo

when you think a 22re or 22r with no muffler is fast

when you are talking to your friends and jeep get brought up, you either talk about your toyota or bash the person talking about the "heep"

[86rustbucket]

when your $2500 rig just passed a $25,000 rubicon broke on the trail

[yota_krawler]

when your rims and tires cost more than the truck is worth

[86rustbucket]

when your rims and tires cost more than the truck is worth

or your transfer case

[86rustbucket]

when you can part your truck out for twice what its worth

[b-radhutch]

when you walk out to your truck to see that your seat belt is hanging outside the bottom of the closed door

[toe]

when you walk out to your truck to see that your seat belt is hanging outside the bottom of the closed door