If you're in Houston, you could well be like my observation when our summer weeks stayed hot and warm in the evenings. The dashboard display showed temperature way before other times of the year.
Overall this is not something I worry about. My pickup has been task and work oriented. I just did summer conditions towing 5000 pounds over about 240 miles of climbs, some poor roads, and some bits unpaved. The temp gauges and all were fine when there was a lot of boost, and low MPG. It was February, but I spent a month and 3000 miles in CO pass climbing and back country sports access without problems.
I also don't get the worries many have when I consider the competition and realities of choice. My situation needed a minimum 6 ft bed pickup. The competition is full of known transmission problems. The Tacoma really only has the early run TSB as a problem and not yet any broad recalls, and a lot seem daft to the matter of how the Tacoma outsells its direct competition. Of course some Tacoma problems have to be out there when their sales kill it against Rangers, GM and Nissan.
