I hear that if you get 500,000 miles on a TOYOTA TRUCK and take it to a toyota dealer, they will trade trucks and give you a brand new truck! this cnat be true...or can it?

 

I doubt it. I know someone that has over 600k on an '86 4x4 and just now spun a bearing on the original motor. I've never heard of that deal though.

 

If this is true, I'll be right back....I'm going to purchase a $250 dollar Toyota truck, put it on jackstands, put a cinder block on the gas pedal at about 2000rpms (saving lots of gas!) and just let it run until I reach 500k. To make things better, I'll go for 999 999 on the odometer.

 

i have heard of it done in weird applications, vovlo and dodge have that i know of. but no company would do it for everyone.

anyone remember the married w/ children episode like that?

 

I think that if you had proven you had it regularly serviced at a Toyota dealership with all your maintenance records kept neat and tidy and all that you should get something from Toyota. Not another vehicle, but something!

 

There was a thread regarding this a while back.

According to the thread, a guy from Florida did some delivery for a living and stocked up 500K in 3 1/2 years and in return, got a new truck from a Toyota dealer.

I'm sure if you search for it, it can be found.

 

there was a chevy truck that got over 1 million miles on it, and they gave him a nice new truck... it was still running and i think it was pensoil (sp?) the oil company bought it to do testing on it...

 

At least a free oil change. That is, assuming you would trust them to change your oil.

 

Hell, I'll give you a "sucker" sign and sell you some ocean-front property in Arizona! If you did the service yourself you could probably have saved enough money and bought the truck yourself.

Pitchar

 

Better yet, if you shop around you should be able to find one with 500k on it already for sale! Cheep!!

There is no way they would raplace youre truck though. Mabe if there was some big advertising involved but other than that I couldn't see it.

 

Oh I'm a sucker alright. I have a family member who works at a Yota dealership. Last oil change/service I paid $6 for. Oh, and $6 for the one before that, and $6 for the one before that, etc. Actually a very reputable dealership actually. Never had any problems either.

 

Toyota used to have tv commercials with "high mileage stories" - actual people who had high mileage rigs. It was a big deal then, when no american car could possibly survive to 100k it was common for a toyota to go 200 or 300K or more and people were amazed. Most of the commercials were 500k stories or more. At the end of the commercial was a number to call to share your own high mileage story and maybe get put on tv. Nowadays, of course, 200-300 won't impress anyone, but million-milers still would!

My aunt put 350k on a Camry, she sold it 7 years ago and it's still running as far as I know. My father has over 300k on his 85 XtraCAb 4x4 now, still drives it every day. But there's others - my GF put 240k on a Montero (Dodge Raider - same same) We put 270k on a Chevrolet work truck (350/4speed/3/4 ton 2wd) and 300k on a 2wd Nissan work truck, and we all know how much care construction crews take of company work trucks... yeah right. All it takes is proper maintenance. Change that oil!!!!!!!!

 

Those Toyota commercials were all about "one-owner" trucks. You had to buy it new and you or your family had to drive it all the miles. I remember one where a large family (like eight kids or so) all had their kids learn to drive on the truck, and the original clutch was still working fine after all the kids had learned to drive.

Apples and oranges ... big rigs sometimes get a million miles in 10 years of long haul use.

 

I have a customer that has 670,000 & some odd miles on an old Chevy truck. Chevy (not a stealership) offerd him a brand new truck (2 years ago) for it but he refused. I asked him why he refused and he replied in a sarcastic voice "It's lasted this long, why do they think I would want to get rid of it?"

 

Honda did give a new civic away after some guy had rolled a million miles on his old one. I think they bought it for some kind of advertising.

 

MY dad rebuilt his 87 22re in hi p/u a last year. The stock clutch was still usable after, what was it? 269000 miles? Haha. The way he drove it, probably another 50k. The only reason for the rubuild was his timing chain guide broke (plasic ones) so he figured what the hell. The pistons were still within spec of no replacement necessary. Original owner.

 

246,678k and still going

 

A crew at work has a 94 Dodge Cummins with 542k on it. They just had to replace the injector pump on the POS.

 

My point exactly. If I could get $6 oil changes I'd go to the dealer also. Too bad they're operating at a loss in your case. Does the manager know about this? A regular dealer charges around $40. I'll do it myself for around $6.

Pitchar

 

I remember that thread.
I don't think that they didn't give him a new truck though, from what I remember he just got a hat or something and they put the truck up on display in front of the dealership.