How were you able to buy a Tacoma

I am another ORG (old retired guy). I am trading my ten year old Tundra in in a TRD Off Road. Sold the 28' travel trailer last summer and got a 16' ultra light. All of our long trips, towing a trailer, are behind us...and the grandkids are grown and starting their own families, so we are down sizing.
 
AZ Pete said:
I am another ORG (old retired guy). I am trading my ten year old Tundra in in a TRD Off Road. Sold the 28' travel trailer last summer and got a 16' ultra light. All of our long trips, towing a trailer, are behind us...and the grandkids are grown and starting their own families, so we are down sizing.
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See, why can't my pending retirement go this way ? I've got 2 years to go & my plans have been blown so far sideways due to circumstances beyond my control, looks like I'll be working my ass off for at least 2 more years instead of easing into it with a decent nest egg we should've had, oh well,,,, props to you Pete...;)
 
Atomic Diesel said:
What plant/ where?
I’m in Va at North Anna and sometimes Surry
I started buying my 17 trdordclb in 1992.....
Fresh out of the gun club and started working for the power company, two cars, 700k miles and 25 years later, enough money was put away that didn’t get used on kids or healthcare or home repairs, etc. I went into the dealership and wrote a check for the one I wanted.
There was actually a third car involved..... in May of 16 I had bought a 2015 Chevy Impala, but the local dealer couldn’t/wouldn’t fix it, and long story short, after being escorted from the property by the local constabulary, I unloaded that POS and ended a 27 year GM loyalty streak. I will not buy another new or CPO ‘American’ automobile. I paid 16 for the car, drove it 16 months, and gave it to Toyota along with a check for 22k. May have lost a little on the trade, but the peace of mind I now have is priceless.
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Diablo canyon in California last of its kind here
 
I traded my 2016 scion in that I owed 19k on and they only gave me 8500 for it it only had 20k miles so I have 11k in negative equity on this Tacoma lol.
 
ScreaminYoda said:
I traded my 2016 scion in that I owed 19k on and they only gave me 8500 for it it only had 20k miles so I have 11k in negative equity on this Tacoma lol.
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That sucks. I wouldn’t be laughing. I would have tried to sale it private party. I don’t understand why anyone would do this and continue to roll over negative equity into another vehicle. Eventually you will have to pay that bill. If god for bid this Tacoma gets wrecked you will have nothing and owe everything. How a bank even financed that is beyond me. SMH.
 
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I wasn't going to buy until June of 2018 but discovered the SR 4x4 4cyl utility package would not be available with the 5 speed manual in the 18s, so I searched the New England inventory for a 2017 in white. There were 19 total and six white ones in inventory somewhere. I asked my local NH dealership to find one for me and they were silent for almost 2 weeks. I didn;t wait for them and I found one at a dealership in MA, got a price, went down to formally see it and to test drive it on a Friday. I took advantage of the 1.9% for 60 and financed it all and was finished in about 1.5 hours. They delivered it the following Wednesday to me at my town hall in NH so I could register it, thus avoiding MA state sales tax. I was very particular on the truck I wanted and I wound up with it. It was actually the best car buying experience I've had and I have bought six new and 1 used vehicle from dealers over the past 25 years.

Side note: for the previous discussion, I met my wife while I was an engineering co-op student and she was a summer temp in the record department of Ginna Nuclear Power Station near Rochester, NY
 
pmhoskin said:
Paid cash. When my 05 Mazda 6 was paid for, just kept making my payments to a savings account. Still making them, for the next Tacoma in about 10 years
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That’s how it’s done. I’ve owned three cars in the last 26 years and only financed the first one. Not easy to discipline oneself to put that money away, but writing a check for the new one sure feels good.
 
Atomic Diesel said:
That’s how it’s done. I’ve owned three cars in the last 26 years and only financed the first one. Not easy to discipline oneself to put that money away, but writing a check for the new one sure feels good.
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I think that’s something that’s learned with a little age. I love new cars and have owned a ton of vehicles but I’ve always been able to stay out of a bunch of negative equity or I wouldn’t trade.
Now I would LOVE to have a couple of the ones I traded, in particular a ‘06 4-Runner the wife had and a ‘04 Tacoma I had.... I miss that gen one regular cab Tacoma bad. Heck of a truck, had to get rid of it, not exactly a family vehicle.
 
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