I've had a 100 series since I joined the forum in 2010, bought it with 110,000 miles... now has 288,000 miles. Not only do I drive it every day, I'm an electrician, albeit for an apartment complex so I dont haul heavy stuff 95% of the time... it is a rolling tool box. Also garden and hobby farm. It get's dirty. There's stains in the carpet. I've replaced the engine... pulled off from a stop light and it just died one morning on the way to work. Replaced the muffler and catalytic converter. Needs a new O2 sensor right now. I've painted it once... and then drove it up a mountain logging road that was full of blackberry vines... may paint it again. My mechanic says a front wheel bearing is going bad. (It's a 2002 ) My wife says the steering feels looser to her... maybe they are both right? Ive had the drivers seat leather redone and then a screwdriver stabbed it... so it will need a repair and the leather on the shift knob is tattered. Every now and the radio just goes out.. drive a dew miles it comes back on. The last time I tried the sunroof switch and the back window switches they sort of bounced... I had to fight with them to get them to close. A little bit of body rust below the back doors... definitely going to get that fixed... and a little bit of rust underneath.
I use it to pull a 1900# trailer with a 3,000# tractor and a implement or 2... its an 800 mile round trip when I go to my farm... there is one hill. One. If I'm fully loaded I have to floor the truck and it creeps along at 5 mph. I've only done that like twice... I can avoid that hill.
For the last 2-3 years, I've been eyeing pickup trucks and medium duty trucks. I've bought a bigger tractor and a batwing mower. I'd love to be able to move them together... it would take a 30ft trailer... new trucks cost $70k and up... I dont think toyota sells anything that will pull about 8000# plus the weight of the trailer and used trucks especially used american trucks are used trucks.
When I 1st got my 100 series my ambition was to wait until the price of used 200 series dropped into the $20k range and buy one and that would possibly be my last truck.
200's seem to be leveling off in the mid $30k range.
It seems the differences between the 100 and the 200 are... bigger engine... which I like, and bells and whistles. Which I could take or leave. I can see that some 200 series are rated up to 8000# which would serve my purpose.
To those that have or have had both and have towed and or just lived with both... how would you compare living day in day out with each of them?
I use it to pull a 1900# trailer with a 3,000# tractor and a implement or 2... its an 800 mile round trip when I go to my farm... there is one hill. One. If I'm fully loaded I have to floor the truck and it creeps along at 5 mph. I've only done that like twice... I can avoid that hill.
For the last 2-3 years, I've been eyeing pickup trucks and medium duty trucks. I've bought a bigger tractor and a batwing mower. I'd love to be able to move them together... it would take a 30ft trailer... new trucks cost $70k and up... I dont think toyota sells anything that will pull about 8000# plus the weight of the trailer and used trucks especially used american trucks are used trucks.
When I 1st got my 100 series my ambition was to wait until the price of used 200 series dropped into the $20k range and buy one and that would possibly be my last truck.
200's seem to be leveling off in the mid $30k range.
It seems the differences between the 100 and the 200 are... bigger engine... which I like, and bells and whistles. Which I could take or leave. I can see that some 200 series are rated up to 8000# which would serve my purpose.
To those that have or have had both and have towed and or just lived with both... how would you compare living day in day out with each of them?
