You know you drive a Toyota when...

[Kurlee Daddee]

you cant drive past a window with out looking at your rigs reflection.

When you can't help but look back at your truck on your way into the house or office.

[Eric_M]

But all cars have their issues, take a look at our lovely toyotas, the 3.0 put them in the books for having issues to, had toyota never made a 3.0 or thought the design out a little more they would have never had gotten any bad wrap.

Not all Toyota 3.0 liters are a bad motor. Toyota has made a few different ones.


When a big motor is a 3.4 and its more then enough.

When the motor bouncing off of the rev limiter is normal and its not a worry.

[Dingman.]

Not all Toyota 3.0 liters are a bad motor. Toyota has made a few different ones.


When a big motor is a 3.4 and its more then enough.

When the motor bouncing off of the rev limiter is normal and its not a worry.

My 3.0L lasted 258,000 miles with never having any work done to it besides maintenance. 

I now have that bigger motor (3.4L) and it bounces off rev limited occasionally..

...when you have to get copies of your keys made ever few months because the design of the cut is so bad the keys tend to break a bunch.

[GNasty 82]

...when people ask you how old your truck is and you say "Which part"

[Eric_M]

...when people ask you how old your truck is and you say "Which part"

And then they look at you funny. That's about the same time that you come to the conclusion that the newest stock part on your truck is older then the design of their car.

[H8PVMNT]

When you buy a "parts" truck with rotting tires and grass growing under and on it from a barnyard for $250, change the fluids, bleed the clutch and proceed to drive it at high speeds for long distances for the next 2 months getting 21 mpg...  

Finally it happens:  you are forced to pull it back into the garage...  

to weld up the rear end.

[H8PVMNT]

When you can't look at anything without wondering what it might be like to drive on it...

[Plekto]

1 - When every discussion about your rigs ends up turning into how little it cost. (makes the Jeep owners mad when this happens)
2 - When your transmission and gears makes more noise than your engine or exhaust.(note - also applies to old Scouts)
3 - When people ask you how many miles it has and you say "almost 400K" without thinking it's anything out of the ordinary.
3B - When you don't ask how many miles it has on it when you call about the ad in the paper.  But do ask what gears it has.
4 - When you own the oldest, most beat-up vehicle in the lot at work and nobody gives you grief over it.(true story - everyone else had new BMWs and Mercedes and so on - and this one old 4Runner in the middle of them...)

Note - I think the real reason Toyota do better off-road is that we know the trucks(actually applies to almost all makes) are cheap crap in stock form and so we modify them *before* we go wheeling.  The other people actually believe the marketing that their stock rig is capable of hitting the trails as-is.   

[zippo]

When you go to buy parts, and your no sure where your going, you just ride around and look for the yard with a bunch of yotas parked out front.

[sparkys83yota]

When you go to buy parts, you just ride around and look for the yard with a bunch of yotas parked out front.

i actually drive looking for ones to buy

[gmack192]

....when you have owned 8, now have 1 in the shop, 1 in the driveway and you are still looking to buy another one.......JONESING FOR A CRUISER........FJ45 the DREAM!!!!

[BUDDERS]

....when you have owned 8, now have 1 in the shop, 1 in the driveway and you are still looking to buy another one.......JONESING FOR A CRUISER........FJ45 the DREAM!!!!

I'm in the same boat, but i've only had 5 of them.  I have a hard time letting go of something I've worked so hard on.....And I want a FJ45 too!

[THK Matt]

85,86,86,91,94

are my years

91 camry, 87 xcab,87 sr5 xcab,85 sr5 4runner, 91 4runner, 90 4runner, 87 supra

All Toyotas I've owned a lot of cars, damn.... lol

When your A/C stops working, instead of fixing it, you turn it into onboard air and just take off your top and throw on half doors during the summer.

haha or for me... You blow out the rear windows and instead of replacing all of them, you hack the back off to make into a 4door truck and take the doors off in the summer.

[BoG-ToY]

when your wife is sitting here reading ALL of these saying "WOW, your not the only one who has issues!!!"

[THK Matt]

when your wife is sitting here reading ALL of these saying "WOW, your not the only one who has issues!!!"

LMAO! That's awesome

[germ]

When you save you're old 4 runner that you don't drive every day for your daughter who won't have her license for another 4 years, just so she'll have a "decent vehicle to drive"

When every vehicle you own, including your trailer is Toyota
* 85 4Runner
* 96 4Runner
* 99 Lancruiser
* 05 Tacoma
* 78 truck bed trailer

[46&2]

When everyone in your photo class knows you as the "toyota 4 wheeler guy" because every roll of film you shot was at least 50% shots of your Toyota

[YotaChris]

When your turned on by a girl who drives a toyota! Or hesitate dating them cause they don't. When anything negative said about your baby, (toyota), is an immediate red flag that it won't work!!

[46&2]

When your turned on by a girl who drives a toyota! Or hesitate dating them cause they don't. When anything negative said about your baby, (toyota), is an immediate red flag that it won't work!!

Good call, nothing hotter than a hottie in a nice Toyota!

[gmack192]

Heck I didn't include cars  My favorite "car" was an old 84 5 door Corolla    LUVVVVVVED it

when your wife is sitting here reading ALL of these saying "WOW, your not the only one who has issues!!!"

LOL My wife doesn't get it either
I traded my 05 Tacoma 4 door 4x4 in on a Tribeca for her so I could get this..

[yotaneck13]

when you hold your v6 off the revlimiter using neutral as a clutch in an auto tranny so you tear up the ruts an the jeep behind you gets burried

[yotaneck13]

when you put a rod through the pan and still drine 57 miles home welfd a plate over the hole so you can go wheelin then next day

[yotaneck13]

when everyone in your area call you cuz u buy every toyota that goes up for sale

95 t100
93 extended cab x4
90 reg cab x2
92 regcab x3
84reg cabx3
85reg cab x2

[THK Matt]

you still own all of those?!

[BoG-ToY]

I now own another toyota.... well kinda, just purchase an 89 2wd regular cab with a junk title here in california... OH did I mention its JUST a CAB.   ALTHOUGH its a complete cab w/22re harness and a complete oil burning piston slapping longblock. 
so all I need is a windshield...

then I will throw it on the LC 81 fj60 chassis I was given a few months ago

[crawlerdad]

I was talking to a guy and when I told him I had an 85 4Runner he said I owned the holey grail of trucks. Gave me a warm fuzzy feeling.

[8D3TOY]

Getting on the freeway is a life threatening experience.

[b-radhutch]

Getting on the freeway is a life threatening experience.

lol so true expetialy when you have a short on ramp

[BoG-ToY]

you should try it in a four door vw rabbit diesel pushing a whopping 50hp..... thats a life threatening experience.... It was worse when I was trying to get on the freeway with my 13.5 ft aluminum boat and trailer behind me ( there should be laws against that... hell, probably is.. lol)

[b-radhutch]

PAGE 6 Wahooo

lol if your getting on the freeway with a downhill on ramp it helps alot =p