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Hello all, first mail on the forum. I am trying to understand if the changes to the 2019 TRD Pro (i.east. Fox suspension) would brand the Pro a amend on-road performer than the TRD Off Road with KDSS. It seems that many people think KDSS is the best OEM selection to maximize on-route performance, just well-nigh of those threads pre-date the Fob change effective in the 2019 model yr.
Groundwork on my situation and apply example:

--By and large LA-expanse urban center driving with regular weekend trips to a remote cabin that requires hr on unmaintained mountain dirt roads at elevation (w/major ruts, rocks, and snow)
--I realize the TRD Pro functionality and looks tin be largely replicated with aftermarket changes to a TRD OR, but I similar the unique TRD Pro bluish color and I am not someone who does much in terms of car modifications

Basically I like the look of the Pro, and I am open to paying for information technology, but I'm wondering if I will be facing a tradeoff in terms of how the vehicle performs during on-road driving.

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The pro is a waste of coin in my opinion. I but bought a 19 trd Off road premium with kdss. Save yourself 10-15k and get the off road version and build to your liking. Unless you lot desire voodoo blue.
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Love my pro and the look of it. Got a compliment today from a stranger who liked information technology. The on road manners are merely fine and you have everything you need to practice serious off roading. Plus its sexy as hell. Win. Win . Win.
I have not ridden in ane but I would say information technology has to ride dainty with the upgraded Play a joke on shocks. This is a positive upgrade to the PRO pick IMO. Here is a motor tendency review of the TRD PRO lineup and they talk a lot nearly the shocks.
https://world wide web.motortrend.com/cars/toyota/tacoma/2019/2019-toyota-tacoma-trd-pro-beginning-drive-review/
I beloved the blue on the Pro as well. Merely it'due south not worth $10,000-$15,000 to me. Plus, I actually wanted KDSS for on-road functioning so I went with an Off Road Premium. For what you are describing an Off Road will work just fine. But if you must have blue........
I went with the Off Route for the KDSS. After owning a 2010 4Runner TE with KDSS, this one had to have it every bit well. I experience similar the KDSS offers the stability and on road manners I adopt over the other models.
I know that up until 2019 the OR with KDSS was a definite step upward in capability over the Pro merely I can't speak on the 2019 Pro'south and the Fob intermission though.

For those who worry about the long term realizability of the KDSS. My previous 4R went 90k miles with naught issues on the KDSS system and that was with a elevator added to it early. The fact that it's information technology's own organisation and non dependent upon whatever other arrangement or electronics, it can be removed if there is a catastrophic failure of the organization or costly repair needed. Evidently that would affect ride and handling but at that point I recollect most people will be going another route (suspension upgrade, non KDSS sway bar which would include new spindles)
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Avoiding KDSS is why I went with the Pro over the TE dorsum in 2015. That and the Inferno colour.
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There are something features that are only available on the pro like auto headlights the fox suspension and bits hither and at that place.
I have an Offroad Premium with KDSS and I honey it. I spent $1050 on Bilstein 6112/5160 and dearest information technology. The upwards charge on these Pros in socal is ridiculous, beyond ridiculous
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I tin't believe how the prices have taken off. I paid $43,250 OTD for my 2015, and it was 1 of the first Infernos stateside.
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There was a postal service on it recently and the dealer market aligning was $20k!!!!
I have a TE without KDSS. Simply it seems in that location were some areas of the state where information technology was hard to observe a TE without it.
I have an '18 ORP with KDSS and love the mode information technology handles on and off road... just I do too have an Icon stage 2 lift which probably helps a fiddling
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Cant believe no 1 has said this all the same, become have a examination bulldoze in a Pro and another one with KDSS and make your own determination on which yous like amend and if the difference in ride is worth the deviation in price. Elementary.
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Right. At the time of my purchase, every TE I came across had KDSS. I guess dealerships liked to click boxes. And besides at the time, because anybody that I came across had it, I causeless that it had become standard on the 2015 model TE's.
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Hi all, thanks for the replies. I have done test drives but not found them to be specially informative. At to the lowest degree hither in the LA area, you are basically driving effectually the block at low city speeds. It's hard to become a deeper and more than nuanced understanding of intermission differences across models.
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I live in OC. I have mentioned before I bought mine for really i purpose, to transport me and my surfboard to beaches from SD to LA County line. I dubiousness I will use 98% of the function of the TRD Pro and I could care a less, its my coin and I wanted Voodoo Blueish. At present what's in my garage may assist yous in deciding if this could be a daily in LA for you, I have a couple of old Porsches which are about useless in the bumper to bumper grind we have, I accept a Macan GTS with air suspension which is awesome over our crappy roads and a 2018 RS3 which even with magnetic shocks barely deals with it. My TRD Pro flies over bumps and even roads with inappreciably whatever fuss. The ride is surprising shine and quiet. In fact I just spent 3 days with it in Beverly Hills and a couple of other spots before driving home today to Newport in bumper to bumper pre holiday rush and it was vault like quiet and shine on the 405.

I would not hesitate to get i. I got mine for exactly 2k over MSRP but it came with tinted windows, the Predator door steps and all the factory accessories, I added information technology all up and I call back at that place was roughly 335 dollars of fluff in there. I agreed to finance it through Toyota, I bought a 125k mile 9 year warranty ( bumper to bumper) for 3400 dollars with is in one case transferable and for 900 dollars got the tire/wheel. windshield and door ding warranty for 6 years no miles. They were happy, I was happy. I emailed near 60 dealers to notice this deal and it was 50 miles from home. They are out there is you do the work every bit I was presented with something shut after and my best friend went and bought it.

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I am merely replying to you considering this forum sends via e-mail replies to anything posted on a thread I participated on.
I discover it amusing and somewhat cute y'all telephone call TRD Pro badges " gaudy" ( correct spelling btw) while yours not just has TRD on information technology but is plastered in " await at me and my SUV" stickers. Add together the Ford Raptor LED'southward and I call up your soapbox is getting mighty slippery. In i key area your " TRD Pro Killer" will come up very brusque is in resale.

I as well noticed your TRD complex didn't prevent you from adding yet some other TRD badge via the license plate frame. This, of course, is my opinion only
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I gotta admit,.. I'd rather buy a off route, and dump the actress in my wants just me... similar home boy upwardly there,.. nab a off road, tweak to my liking, add the play a joke on swag, and still accept coin in the bank left over for hookers and cocaine. I just can't come across the up charge on a pro,.. then again, if I had the money, burning, I'd purchase a pro, to say I take a pro, lol, and put fox gear on it. I similar my off road, and what I paid for information technology, just the way it is. .....sooooooo
I'thou no assist lol

Edit- and, I dont want a sunroof, and dont actually care about kdss... I, myself, rather not accept it. Again, just my personal want. No hate at all. Just me ,.. and the boner colors the pro comes in,.. dont practise it for me either. Sooooo...
2nd edit- ya. Pro resale is college. But ya paid way more than. Your also going to resale it, to a dude with money, that dont know the difference. No one that "knows" will pay the upper price simply because pro is on it, only, yep,.. there will be those that will buy it for sure, for extra, that dont know. But, I bet my resale value, which your right , won't be every bit loftier every bit a pro, will be around the aforementioned, vs what was paid in the start. Just saying.

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Like, if y'all simply wanted a pro, only cuz of the voodoo blue, you could a bought a SR5, for a ass load less, and vinyl wrapped information technology voodoo blue, or hell whatever color ya want, and, do that every 2 years for a long long time, before you blow the extra pro coin for the cash,...and had enough left over for another vehicle lol. Merely once again,... hell, if I had the coin, to burn, ya, i woulda got a pro, and dumped a butt load into it. For sure. No hate on the pro at all. I love em all. Hell, all platforms are dope, and have their place. Period. /thread
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If you take any plans or even the inkling of a programme to upgrade the suspension, just got with the TRD Off Road. Unless y'all merely HAVE to have Voodoo Blue.
I've studied psychology for forty years. Very few things are as clear as this: when faced with a decision like this, request other people what they recollect you should do almost always lessens the likelihood that you lot will make a decision with which you lot will exist happy, after y'all've made it. What the enquiry strongly suggests is that you spend as much time sitting in, walking around, driving (there take ever been ways for me to get dealerships to let me accept the car for a few hours) the Pro and the Off Route Premium. Then sit in your backyard by yourself with a beer and think "I can magically brand one of these two trucks materialize in my driveway right at present and that'southward the one I'll drive everywhere I get this month. Which one excites me the most?" No decision making process eliminates 100% of buyers' remorse in anything from car-buying to marriage, but something like what I briefly described is what the evidence supports. Spending a lot of time eliciting opinions tin erroneously make you lot feel like others are in with you (however, all of united states beingness homo, we are doing nothing other than trying to get you to do what nosotros did so we tin experience better about our decision), just nobody only you volition be living with the truck you buy and, afterwards the online discussion ends, nobody else's approving or disapproval of your decision should really even be allowed into your thinking.
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The only advice I would offer is to put down on newspaper all of your must-haves, needs and wants, in terms of features and functioning goals, and then prioritize each characteristic with some kind of ranking score that makes sense to you. This will help to considerately compare what each model or trim level has to offer, and will hopefully result in you finding the best fit for your needs.
I was expressionless gear up on buying a new truck earlier I went through the practice outlined above. Information technology helped me meet that a truck wasn't the best vehicle for my needs. Ended up with the 4R and couldn't be happier.
Here is my take... there are people out in that location that must take the well-nigh expensive of whatever it is they're buying simply to say they bought the best. It's more of a status thing than it is on bang for your buck.
At that place are colors you can only purchase in the Pro and IF that color is worth the premium price then buy all means, buy what You lot desire. But make no error, there isn't any logical reason, other than color, to purchase a pro over a TRD ORP. I could purchase an ORP TRD and make it better than a pro for cheaper and get some extra options that aren't available on a pro that actually affair, similar moonroof and mirror turn signals.
Yous're always gonna accept people say that since they spent more, they got more. It's just not true tho when you lot break it down. You lot can take a TRD ORP and spend less than you would on a pro and have a improve ride. If the colour is worth it to y'all, it's your money.
And the resell argument is bogus. Sure you lot'll get a trivial more than on resell but y'all'll pay way more to purchase initially.
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Get the pro, zero regrets