[jliltd]

Howdy. I have been waiting for the 2007 Toyo since rumors first hit. I bought a 07 4x4 Double Cab with Longbed around Feb 20th 2007. It is awesome for farm and ranch work.

I bought my first new Toyota in 1989 in Seattle (new style SR5 pre-Tacoma moniker with 3.0 V6). Had to sell it around 1996 when we accidentally blew it up down on the farm (oxy/acetylene tank problemo). It still ran when I sold it even though it didn't have any windows and the bed was deformed from explosion. Next Toyo was a 2001 Sequoia when they first hit for the wife. Now the '07 Tundra.

I still have a '05 Silverado 2500HD 2WD with Duramax diesel and two '05 4WD Ford Powerstroke diesels. I turned one of the Fords over to one of my foremen so I could get my new Tundra and the other two domestic trucks are driven by my brother and another foreman.

I got the 4x4 Tundra long bed for utility reasons (as an added plus the new Tundra looks like a real truck with the long bed and DCab). I also insisted on a split bench seat as I loathe buckets/captains type arrangements. We use work trucks on the farm and all the interior and exterior space matters to us so no center consoles (except for the fold-down seat type) and gotta have a long bed for cargo and better trailering. There were no non-regular cab trucks like this in Texas so I had to drive over to New Mexico where that region has trucks like we wanted in stock. It came with Sonar, Bluetooth JBL stereo, towing mirrors and cold kit along with the 275 tire size upgrade. Good stuff and not useless "extra-mile" type crap and tape stripes like the Texas distributor puts on all their trucks. I swear the Gulf States Toyota configuration person must be a suburban soccer mom, a cholo, or both.

While my ideal farm/work truck would be white with a grey interior, the one I bought was Desert Sand Mica with tan cloth interior. That was my second-best exterior color and it has really grown on me. Our soil types are very light colored and the Mica seems to match it pretty well although I doubt the paint will be as cool as white in our 100 degree+ weather. We have to absolutely stay away from dark colors here.

Since buying the truck I added OEM fog lamps, OEM backup camera system and auto-dimming rear-view mirror with compass. I also went for a Rhino Liner spray-in bed liner and OEM Tundra bedmat. I was kind of caught up in the new truck purchase thing and was spending money like it grows on trees (I am a pecan farmer coincidentally). I like all added options but the camera only works in Reverse (doh...hence the name, silly). It would be nice if it would work in Neutral and in Drive when the speed is under 1 or 2mph so trailer tounge hookups could be kept in view during the jockeying process.

During harvest we haul one and sometimes two tandem 12,000lb pecan trailers. They have no tounge weight (steering front axles) and are basically dead pulls at under 20mph. I pulled some of these with the old 3.0 taco (ouch on the clutch and don't even try to stop). I regularly pulled some with my 2000 5.3 2WD Silverado and the diesel trucks mentioned above. We'll see how the new Tundra handles this next fall but I think it will do awesome based on 3,000 miles of experience so far.

Look forward to learning all I can on the forums while trying to avoid typical and predictable flamers and trolls.

Jim