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Originally Posted by cochise
I don't know about the Tacoma, but my old Silverado had the "tow button" at the end of the shift lever. When that was activated the shift points changed and the overdrive was locked out. So I did not have a lot of unnecessary shifting.
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The Tacoma doesn't have a Tow/Haul mode but you can manually force it 4th gear. We did this when the shifting became too irritating. But 4th at highway speeds is quite a bit noisier than 5th, so it's a trade-off.
If all we were doing was occasional trips, not too long, we would have kept the Tacoma, and lived with the over weight and bit of noise. It really is a great truck otherwise. But last year we towed 15,000 miles and plan on towing to Florida every winter with all our gear, so ... it's for sale. Or maybe one of the kids will take it over (I hate to see it leave the family; funny how you get attached to these things).