Most dealership videos about a new truck are made by someone selling it. This one from @rohrmantoyota is told by someone who also owns one. Standing in the Rohrman Toyota showroom with a key fob in his hand and a Tacoma parked behind him, a staffer opens with a confession: “These are three things I really wish I would have known about my Tacoma before buying it.” The text on screen bills the clip as “Top 3 Hidden Features 2026 Toyota Tacoma.”

He ends up giving four, and none of them is about horsepower or price. Each one is a small control or part that already comes with the truck and is easy to miss: a button sequence on the key fob, a dial for the headlights, a hitch pin stored where few owners would think to look, and a button he says he had never pressed. The whole tour takes just over a minute.

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First is remote start. “Number one has to be the remote start feature,” he says, then holds up the fob and counts out the presses: “One, two, three. Hold it on the third.” That is the whole instruction. Two quick presses, then a third that stays held down. There is no app in the demonstration and no menu to dig through, only the fob that comes with the truck.

Second is one that matters to anyone who pulls a trailer. “Number two has to be the headlight height adjustment,” he says. “If you’re towing anything, that makes your headlights go up, and Tacoma actually has a dial, that way you can adjust your headlights.” He then moves to the truck to show the dial and explains the order of operations: “So all you do is hook up your load, or if you’re towing something in the bed, just see where your headlights are going to be level. Adjust this knob, and you can level out your headlights.”

The third item comes with a story. “Number three is the Tacoma actually has a different hitch receiver than most vehicles,” he says. “It’s got thicker walls, so that requires a different pin.” He learned this the inconvenient way. “I was loading up, getting ready to go to the lake with my boat, and I did not have a pin that worked,” he says. “And I feel like I should have known this, but I didn’t, so I Googled it, and I found out that it’s actually in the glove box.” He opens the glove box on camera to prove it: “Pop that open, you can see right here is the pin.”

Then comes the bonus. “And there’s one more hidden feature that I just found out about,” he says, showing a button labeled ECT PWR that sits among controls marked TOW HAUL, 4H and 2H. “I had never hit this button, the ECT PWR button, until the other day, and then I hit it, and you can definitely feel a little bit of a difference.” His explanation of what it does is short: “What it does is it basically adjusts the shift points and keeps you in the powerband just a little bit longer.”

He signs off by inviting questions: “Let me know down in the comments if there’s anything you want to know about the Toyota Tacoma.”

For a Tacoma owner, the hitch pin is the most useful part of the video, because it is the one item that can stop a trip before it starts. By his account, the pin he had on hand did not work on his truck, and the correct one had been in the glove box all along. If you own a Tacoma and plan to tow, open the glove box now and confirm the pin is there, not on the morning you are loading up. If you bought the truck used, make sure the pin came with it. And if you are carrying over hitch gear from another vehicle, test fit it before you count on it.

The headlight dial is worth a few minutes in the driveway. His instructions put the load first and the adjustment second, and that order matters. Hitch the trailer or load the bed, look at where the beams fall, then turn the knob until they are level. When the trailer comes off or the bed is empty again, set the dial back.

Remote start is the easiest to try. Press the fob button twice and hold the third press, the way he counts it out. He does not name the button in the video, so if the sequence does nothing, the owner’s manual will say which button it applies to and whether your truck has the feature. The video is labeled for the 2026 Tacoma, and he does not say which trim he is showing or whether every version includes all four items, so check your own truck before assuming.

The ECT PWR button is one to try on a road you know well. He describes the effect modestly, as “a little bit of a difference,” and says it changes the shift points so the engine stays in its powerband longer. Drive the same stretch with it off and then on, and decide whether you notice it.

The larger lesson is in his opening line. He works at a Toyota dealership, owns the truck, and still found one feature by searching online and another by pressing a button he had ignored. New owners can spare themselves the same surprise by asking for a full walkthrough of the fob, the dash buttons and the glove box when they pick up the truck, and by reading the towing section of the manual before the first trip to the lake.