Just to jump on the bash toyota bandwagon
my best friend has terrible luck with cars. he buys one, and usually within the first 3 months it needs major work out of the blue. always happens. well he has had a good job for a little while and has saved up some money, decides he is going to break his car curse, by buying a much newer car and with much less miles than in the past, in fact he is going to get a tundra "because they last forever and never need any work"
anyway he ends up dropping 10 grand on an 05 or 06 tundra 4x4 extended cab real nice just under 100k miles. It is a beautiful truck really well taken care of. he does a bunch of research , changes all the fluids, diffs, everything to synthetic, and even gets me to help him change the timing belt, because they need to be changed every 90,000 miles. we change the water pump while we are there because it is buried behind the front cover
real pain. anyway does all this and two months to the dot later develops one of the worst knocks you have ever heard
sounds like rocks in the engine. he is pissed!! takes it to a mechanic says it will be $1000 to pull the oil pan and have a look!
have to pull the engine or drop the whole front suspension subframe to get it off. forget that! my buddy orders a used engine from a junk yard up north with similar milage for about the same price as just to look at the problem and we spend several days pulling the old engine swapping over all his new parts and putting the new engine back in.
runs good now, but he is real disappointed with his milage, he can barley crack 16 unloaded. he moved to san diego pulling a small utility trailer with his stuff and got 12
all along i told him to get an idi. besides those tundra seats are more like car seats and get uncomfortable on long drives.
just goes to show any truck or car can develop problems, i would prefer to have one i can fix myself that does not cost an arm and a leg.