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Toyota Stalking, er...um, SPOTTING with Charlie™ (Tundra and Sequoia Edition)!

Discussion in 'Other Toyota Vehicles' started by PennSilverTaco, Oct 19, 2020.

  1. Oct 27, 2021 at 5:52 PM
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    October 27th, 2021:

    Doylestown, Pennsylvania

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  2. Oct 29, 2021 at 1:12 PM
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  3. Nov 5, 2021 at 2:59 PM
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  4. Nov 8, 2021 at 3:41 PM
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    Riegelsville, Pennsylvania

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  5. Nov 8, 2021 at 3:52 PM
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    Riegelsville, Pennsylvania

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  6. Nov 8, 2021 at 5:12 PM
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    2006 Regular Cab V8; Base model with crank windows, and I believe it might be 2WD!


    November 7th, 2021:

    Riegelsville, Pennsylvania

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  7. Nov 8, 2021 at 6:53 PM
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  8. Nov 9, 2021 at 8:17 PM
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    Riegelsville, Pennsylvania



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  9. Nov 9, 2021 at 9:34 PM
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    November 8th, 2021:

    Warminster, Pennsylvania

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  10. Nov 11, 2021 at 9:21 PM
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    November 11th, 2021:

    Doylestown, Pennsylvania


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  11. Nov 24, 2021 at 10:40 AM
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    November 20th, 2021:

    Jamison, Pennsylvania

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  12. Nov 24, 2021 at 10:59 AM
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  13. Nov 29, 2021 at 9:01 PM
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    Warrington, Pennsylvania


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  15. Dec 3, 2021 at 9:43 AM
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    Ivyland, Pennsylvania

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  16. Dec 6, 2021 at 8:25 PM
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    At Thompson Lexus...

    In past years they used a red dune buggy and a bunch of Camrys and Corollas, and until last year it always in front of the adjacent Toyota dealer (Thompson Toyota, where I got my frame replaced); This is the first time I've seen them use a Tundra, and after running the license plate through Carfax I believe this is a former errand running truck for the aforementioned Toyota dealer. If you look closely, you will see that the inspection stickers expired in 2018; The truck is a 2002 model, purchased new at dealer in Maryland in October 2001, with 10 miles on the clock. It spent more than a decade as a commercial vehicle and accumulated almost 150K miles in the first five years of its life; It seems to have been traded at Thompson in March 2017, and Thompson put it to use as a shop truck...


    December 6th, 2021:

    Doylestown, Pennsylvania

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  18. Dec 6, 2021 at 8:33 PM
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  19. Dec 6, 2021 at 8:34 PM
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    I went back after dark...

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  20. Dec 6, 2021 at 8:36 PM
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  22. Dec 6, 2021 at 8:39 PM
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    I was surprised to find out from the Carfax report that this truck has not been at Thompson it's whole life, though it has been in Pennsylvania pretty much it's whole life; It was sold new in Maryland and spent more than a decade as a commercial vehicle (I was thinking it was picked off the lot and put into service as a shot truck. The truck was purchased new in October 2001 and had 10 miles at the time it was first titled; By February 2006, the truck had over 145K miles on it! The last reported odometer reading was 159,426 in October 2017 (probably over 160K now); According to Carfax, this truck was driven less than 6,000 miles between February 2006 and February 2007 and from there it just seemed to get driven less and less, with a little over 1,500 miles put on the truck between February 2007 and February 2008. From February 2008 to June 2015, less than 6,200 miles were put on the truck, and less than 240 miles from June 2015 to June 2016; 350 from June 2016 to October 2017.

    The truck spent the first 15 years of its life in Dublin, Pennsylvania; Dublin is just a few miles from Thompson Toyota, but the truck doesn't appear to have changed hands for the first time until March 2017. Despite having had two owners, Carfax shows only one. My guess would be that the truck was traded at Thompson and Thompson decided to keep the truck as a runner; The truck was serviced at Thompson, which included the replacement of an oxygen sensor and an emissions test/safety inspection, in October 2017. My theory is that Thompson uses the truck so little that they don't bother to inspect it anymore, rather than there being something wrong with the truck; I wouldn't be surprised if the engine needed a tuneup due to years of disuse, or if the A/C needed to be recharged, but this is 3400 V6 we're talking about!
     
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    December 7th, 2021:

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  25. Dec 10, 2021 at 10:26 AM
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    I am surprised that they have enough vehicles on the lot to be able to do that.
     
  26. Dec 10, 2021 at 7:08 PM
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    They have plenty at the Lexus dealer; Toyota and BMW are destitute...
     
  27. Dec 10, 2021 at 7:09 PM
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    December 10th, 2021:

    Warminster, Pennsylvania

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  28. Dec 12, 2021 at 11:10 AM
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    December 11th, 2021:

    North Wales, Pennsylvania

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  29. Dec 24, 2021 at 6:19 PM
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    I just could not wait to photograph a 3rd Gen in the wild, so I went on the website for my local Toyota dealer (Thompson Toyota in Doylestown, PA) to see if they had any in stock, and they did!

    The website said they had a few, but this CrewMax Limited is the only one I saw...



    December 24th, 2021:

    Doylestown, Pennsylvania

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    And the damn thing is already spoken for...

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