So I've been searching for a 4x4 toyota truck with low miles without having to spend a fortune. That's damn near impossible around here. One day searching autotrader I put in 4x4 toyota truck, under 100k miles, any distance, and sorted price from low to high. And this 92 toyota was first on the list, and was only an hour drive away.

The ad stated 70k original miles, and was traded in at a large toyota dealer a couple days earlier. It wasn't even ready to sell, but they let me drive it anyway. I drove it around twenty miles for the test drive with me, my wife, and the Haitian sales lady crammed in it.

I looked it over and you can tell it hasn't seen a lot of miles, no rust, and the dealer agreed to have everything working with no engine lights on.

First thing it needed though was a paint job. It has faded from being 22 years old. It had a small dent on the fender, and typical used truck stuff, dings etc.

When I bought it


It has basically no rust, maybe light surface stuff on the leaf springs, and on the exhaust pipe, but that's nit picking it.

Here's the underbody. It's on a lift at the toyota dealership.







I know a guy that does great paint and body work for cheap, here it is getting prepped for paint.



It was cheap so I replaced the bumper and grille while it was apart.



Here it is now painted and with factory wheels from a 99 tacoma.  I got the wheels and tires for $200. The mud tires would look better, but it kills gas mileage and is noisy above 50mph. It'll cruise going 65mph and rides like a new truck. I'll keep the off-road wheels for the few times a year we have icy weather.

i

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jealous

nice truck.  I want one, badly.  Very badly.  Would prefer an extended cab, but I'd have bought that in a heart-beat if the price was fair.

Very nice! I've been looking for a set of factory alloys for the 04 Tundra that I bought a few months ago. Toyota produces some godawful steel wheels.

I wanted an extended cab also, but it's rare to find one like this.

If you do research and see the actual market value for these low mileage ones, you wouldn't believe it. It's almost to the point of being like a classic.

The price sounds high but was a reasonable 4950, but then there was taxes, tag, title,doc fee.  No haggling the dealer, true price or some crap.


But then I proceeded to rape them on the promises/ we owe list. Here's a list of every thing that the dealer has done since I bought it.

Fixed the ac, it still had a rattle when kicking on, so they replaced the entire ac compressor.
No engine codes, they replaced an o2 sensor for that.
Replaced the not working tailgate handle
The speedometer was bouncing and acting up some, still counted miles. (Common on Toyota pickups), so they trouble shooted the problem and replaced the entire cluster with a new one from toyota.

Very nice deal for under $5,000

Oh why don't these deals land around me...  

BIGGER_HAMMER

Yeah, I'd have foregone the extended cab for that price too.  They also did you right taking care of all that stuff.  Nice find.

I got lucky on this one. If you look up 89-94 4x4 toyota pickups in excellent condition with 90-120k miles, they are asking around $10,500 on all of them. Hell people want $8,000 for nice ones with 200k miles.

I just don't see a truck that old bringing 10k. But that's what they all are asking. So that must be around the going market price. I have nowhere near 10k in mine even after the work done to it.

 

I have a 1990 two door that I paid $4,200 for.

I love Toyota trucks.

I originally thought you were going overboard with repainting............it just didn't look all that bad to me.

But after seeing the new paint job, wow, that REALLY looks nice now!!!

Congrats!!

Yeah, that looks absolutely fantastic.  Good score, OP.

Nice snag. This thread is worthy of an official... YOU SUCK!

Looking good.

Since your truck now looks so nice, and these are extremely easy to steal, make sure you put and alarm on it, or a hidden kill switch at minimum.

We'll done!

A lot of them got destroyed a few years back. Toyota had a large recall on many due to a frame rust issue. They did not apply the proper rust coating. There fix was to simply take the truck and cut the owner a check. I had a buddy who got like $11,000 for his. Its a shame as it was a nice truck but the road salt did destroy a large portion of the frame and under body. Seems the survivors of the years were West and South.

No doubt, you can unscrew the antenna, lift the door handle, run the antenna up the handle hinge hole and push up the doorlock, unlocking the vehicle.

I think that was for the 1st gen Tacoma (95-04), not the previous Toyota truck.

 

You paid 5 grand for a 22 year old truck?  I'll never know what it is with you guys and Toyotas.  I hated mined and couldn't wait to get rid of it.

What a find! With those low miles, too. My sister had a 1992 4Runner for many years and it was a great truck, but I always felt weird driving it. Sitting in the cab always felt more like I was laying down in the front seat and the cab felt really shallow, like the floor could have been just a little deeper and the roof a little higher.

Good to know

they broke into my 89 xcab when I owned it thru the back window and the plastic latch they put on those windows

That's how Rangers are.  I didn't know Toyotas did that too.

I didn't realize this was still going. Here's a couple more better quality pictures.

This...    Nice truck

Looks good, you'll be very happy with the truck.

I am really envious.  This is the exact year Toyota truck that made me want one so bad.  And while I like my 2009, it has never been as flat out /awesome/ as the 1992.

 

I found a receiver hitch, bumper mounts,  and a window crank at the junkyard today. There's still rubber grommets where the receiver hitch bolts up to. I don't think this truck has ever pulled anything.

The more I look at it,  I think it must have sat somewhere for a long time,  and then someone spent a good bit of money getting it back going again.  With the way the hoses and everything look new.