1998 Toyota Tacoma Base

Listed by an independent dealer in Spanaway, WA · On lot for 23 days · VIN verifiable at NHTSA

This used 1998 Toyota Tacoma Base is listed at $5,900 by preferred motors, inc. spanaway in Spanaway, WA 98387. It has 253,000 miles on the odometer (dealer-reported, not independently verified by OAV). The exterior color is White. It features a RWD drivetrain with a 2.4L I4 engine and Manual transmission.

OAV's independent, evidence-backed Price-to-Market analysis rates this vehicle as Unscored. OAV found too few sufficiently similar vehicles nearby to support a confident price verdict, so it withholds one rather than guessing.

This vehicle has been on the lot for 23 days.

Analysis powered by OAV's patented inventory standardization technology (U.S. Patent No. 12,236,477). Verdict methodology ptm-verdict-v1 · snapshot Sep 15, 2026. The patented comparable band is the input; ptm-verdict-v1 is the versioned OAV rule set that turns it into this verdict.

Market context

This listing is part of OAV's broader Spanaway, WA trucks market analysis. OAV compares vehicles by local and regional price-to-market ranges and comparable count; days-on-lot and demand signals are shown separately, not as verdict inputs.

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How this deal is rated

OAV compares this 1998 Toyota Tacoma against similar vehicles currently available for sale — same make, model, and year range, using trim where the data supports it. OAV does not adjust comparable prices for mileage; on used vehicles it withholds a verdict when mileage would distort the comparison — very high or unreliable mileage, or a lower price better explained by higher-than-typical mileage than by a genuine market discount — rather than overstate a deal. Based on where this listing falls in that comparable set, it is rated:

• Great Deal — priced below the comparable-range floor by a meaningful margin (OAV's minimum-gap rule); a listing below the floor by less than that margin is Fair Price.
• Fair Price — priced within the expected range for comparable vehicles.
• Overpriced — priced above the typical range for comparable vehicles.

Listings show OAV's PTM-derived deal quality and live market context. OAV-claimed dealers manage their listing profile and route buyer inquiries directly. Paid OAV partners can surface additional verification signals, but commercial participation never changes a listing's Price-to-Market verdict, eligibility, ranking, or confidence.

How this listing is verified

This vehicle listing was aggregated from an independent dealer in Spanaway, WA, one of 57,000+ U.S. dealerships in OAV's nationwide inventory network.The VIN 4TAVL52N2WZ152350 can be independently verified via the U.S. Department of Transportation's NHTSA VIN decoder, and safety recalls at NHTSA's recall database.

Vehicle attributes (year, make, model, trim, mileage, location) are standardized using OAV's patented methodology (U.S. Patent No. 12,236,477), which normalizes naming conventions and deduplicates cross-listed inventory across the dealership network. Listing data is processed daily; Price-to-Market analysis uses comparable vehicles.

1998 Toyota Tacoma Market in WA

Based on all 6 1996-2000 Toyota Tacoma listings in the WA market. Because OAV has not assigned a reliable price verdict to this listing, it does not state how it compares to this broader average. Similar vehicles spend an average of 61 days on dealer lots in this market.