Toyota Tacoma Lift & Leveling Hub

The Tacoma is really three trucks wearing one name, and lift kits do not cross between them freely. The 2005–2015 (2nd gen) and 2016–2023 (3rd gen) trucks share an architecture — front coil/strut suspension, rear leaf springs — that carried for nearly two decades. The 2024+ (4th gen) truck is a clean-sheet platform that moved most trims to a coil-spring rear suspension, added factory-lifted halo trims, and invalidated most of the older catalogue overnight. This hub keeps the three generations separate, because the kit manufacturers do.

We have not hands-on tested kits for this platform. Everything published here is tied to a cited source — manufacturer fitment pages and listings, checked 2026-11-03 — and our method is explained in how we test and verify.

Check first: the exclusions that decide everything

• Lug count, on 2005–2023 trucks. Base 2WD Tacomas of this era are 5-lug trucks with a different front suspension; most leveling and lift kits are 6-lug only. Rough Country’s 2-inch leveling kit for these trucks states it plainly: does not fit models with 5-lug wheels. Count before you shop.
• TRD Pro (every generation). The Pro has carried a factory lift — about an inch on the leaf-spring trucks, and on the 2024+ truck a FOX-equipped setup with roughly an inch at the front. Kit makers exclude it or give it its own part numbers; stacking a leveling spacer on a factory-lifted truck is the classic Tacoma mistake.
• 2024+ only: AVS and Trailhunter. Trims with Adaptive Variable Suspension (Limited with AVS) are excluded by ReadyLIFT’s 2024+ kits, and the Trailhunter — factory Old Man Emu suspension, about 2 inches of front lift, 33-inch tires stock — is excluded for the same reason as the Pro: it is already lifted.
• 2024+ rear suspension. Most 4th-gen trims run coil springs at the rear, but the SR, the SR5 XtraCab and the TRD PreRunner keep leaf springs. ReadyLIFT’s 2024+ kits exclude the leaf-spring trucks, so “2024 Tacoma” is not a complete fitment answer — your trim is.

2005–2015 and 2016–2023: the leaf-spring trucks

Two generations, one playbook. The front is a coil-over strut, so leveling happens three honest ways: a strut spacer on top, a pre-load spacer inside the strut assembly, or an adjustable-height replacement shock such as Bilstein’s B8 5100 that raises the spring perch itself. At the rear, lift comes from blocks or an add-a-leaf under the leaf pack — there is no coil to space.

The caution that scales with height: at around 3 inches of front lift, alignment runs out of adjustment. ReadyLIFT’s documentation for its 3-inch Tacoma SST kits notes that some 2011–2022 trucks cannot return caster to factory specification after the lift and need an aftermarket upper control arm. Budget for that possibility at 3 inches; the 2-inch leveling kits in our Tacoma leveling and lift kits guide stay clear of it. What the verified kits state for tires on these trucks tops out at a 285/65R18 (about 32.6 inches) — the fitment table below holds the exact claims and their wheel conditions.

2024+: the new platform

The 4th-gen truck changed the rear suspension (coils on most trims), the front geometry, and the trim ladder — and the aftermarket answered with trim-specific hardware. Westcott Designs’ preload collar kit, the best-known early entry for this platform, lists a different lift height for nearly every trim: 2.5 inches of front lift for SR5, TRD Sport and TRD Off-Road, 1.75 inches for the TRD Pro, 1.5 inches for the AVS-equipped Limited, and front-only kits for the leaf-spring SR and the Trailhunter. ReadyLIFT’s 2024+ SST kits add the exclusions above and state their tire claims tightly — a 285/75R17 with no trimming on the 2.5-inch kit, up to a 35-inch tire on the 3-inch kit with control arms. Nothing from the 2005–2023 catalogue should be assumed to fit this truck; if a listing spans 2024 without naming the new platform, it has not answered the first question.

Your workflow on this platform

1. Name your generation: 2005–2015, 2016–2023, or 2024+. On older trucks, count lugs (6-lug is the supported pattern).
2. On a 2024+ truck, name your rear suspension: coils, or leaf springs on an SR, SR5 XtraCab or PreRunner — and check for AVS.
3. Run your trim against the kit’s exclusion list, TRD Pro and Trailhunter first.
4. Convert your tire goal with the tire size calculator, sanity-check it against the tire size and lift height guide, and price the whole job with how much does it cost to lift a truck. New to the vocabulary? Start with leveling kit vs lift kit vs body lift.

Sources for this hub (checked 2026-11-03): Rough Country’s 743 product page (5-lug, T/X Baja and TRD Pro exclusions); ReadyLIFT’s 69-5530 product page and its Tacoma SST documentation (caster / upper-control-arm note, 285/65R18 max tire); Westcott Designs’ 2024+ Tacoma preload collar page (per-trim lift heights, the SR leaf-spring and Trailhunter front-only kits, AVS Limited fitment); ReadyLIFT’s 2024+ Tacoma shop page (69-54250 and 69-54300 pricing and the leaf-spring / TRD Pro / AVS / Trailhunter exclusions).