murphdawg
New member
Well I finally did it! After years of lurking here and various facebook pages, I pulled the trigger on a first-gen tundra.
I've had tons of Toyotas over the years, but never really had a tundra in mind until I started stumbling across them in the overlanding community. Although still scarce in this world they still have a cult like following as many of you know. I looked all across the country and was open to flying somewhere and driving back. I'm currently in the PNW area and ended up finding a truck locally down in Portland, about 150 miles away. It kinda just worked out and all the stars aligned at once, including selling my Highlander Hybrid for way above what I thought it would be worth. Hitched a ride with my buddy and down to Portland we went.
Truck had probably 30+ professional quality photos and was at a dealer who seemed to know what he was talking about in regards to Toyotas, he had a good size inventory of a few tundras, sequoias, tacomas and even landcruisers. Truck was exactly as pictured, virtually no frame rust. History proves it spent all of its life in california and nevada, and it was solid. Dealer is the type of guy who does timing belt and water pump on every vehicle they get unless its documented to have just been done. I inspected everything and work was up to my standards, or so I thought? I'll get to that in a little bit.
Went home with the truck and couldn't be happier, although lots of little stuff to change immediately, I was the owner and excited!
Got home, noticed the ac did work! After about 2 days of diagnostics i figured out that the ground screw on the compressor had been removed, timing belt mechanic insists he never touched it, oh well it got fixed.
I've had tons of Toyotas over the years, but never really had a tundra in mind until I started stumbling across them in the overlanding community. Although still scarce in this world they still have a cult like following as many of you know. I looked all across the country and was open to flying somewhere and driving back. I'm currently in the PNW area and ended up finding a truck locally down in Portland, about 150 miles away. It kinda just worked out and all the stars aligned at once, including selling my Highlander Hybrid for way above what I thought it would be worth. Hitched a ride with my buddy and down to Portland we went.
Truck had probably 30+ professional quality photos and was at a dealer who seemed to know what he was talking about in regards to Toyotas, he had a good size inventory of a few tundras, sequoias, tacomas and even landcruisers. Truck was exactly as pictured, virtually no frame rust. History proves it spent all of its life in california and nevada, and it was solid. Dealer is the type of guy who does timing belt and water pump on every vehicle they get unless its documented to have just been done. I inspected everything and work was up to my standards, or so I thought? I'll get to that in a little bit.
Went home with the truck and couldn't be happier, although lots of little stuff to change immediately, I was the owner and excited!
Got home, noticed the ac did work! After about 2 days of diagnostics i figured out that the ground screw on the compressor had been removed, timing belt mechanic insists he never touched it, oh well it got fixed.
