What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

Someone please stop me before I end up spray painting my whole truck

 

good job man, I like it! they look good

 

Thanks guys.

I'm on a mission to get rid of all the chrome...

...my door handles bothered me for so long.

Up next chrome bumper inserts (and I'm going to dye the valence)

 

Is that the duplicolor dye??

I told you that you would love the stuff...its fucking awesome!! Its the new plastiderp...IMO

...I am doing my A/C intake cowl and finally getting to my door handles today or tomorrow AM...just got the Cowl off my truck and cleaning all the MUD caked in the seals

 

Well after a winter and a heading up into the mountains every weekend I finally deep cleaned my Tacoma today.

Took 5 hours but today was the day to do it, with a high of 81 in april the Tacoma really took the shine haha

 

That's not the dye.

It was 320 fine grit, three light coats of Rustoleum primer and three light coats of Rustoleum semi-gloss.

 

Looks great.

What's your definition of a "deep clean"

 

Cleaning all the mud and brush from under it, washing and waxing the outside, polishing the wheels "which takes forever by hand." armor all the tires and the dash, clean the windows and cleaning the inside.. Haha its been almost a year

 

oh haha...

Just saw you did the chrome on the door handles, its been a slow sunday, the juices aren't going yet...I am also on a slow mission to eliminate my chrome.

Waiting to get my 4X bumper so I can eliminate the front bumper

 

Still waiting to see how that looks on our front end.

When you supposed to get it?

 

Man, I don't know. I ordered it at the beginning of march, and he said it would be about 2 weeks then he would email me the tracking #. But nothing yet. I emailed Adam at 4x but haven't heard back yet...and from what I have heard that is pretty uncharacteristic of Adam.

 

Yea that is surprising. Maybe try giving him a call Monday.

 

Got to know the trim package pretty well... and got all my Polk DB651s installed plus the JVC head unit.... sounds so much better than the old stock units.


http://yfrog.com/5ss4hz

 

Nice job, madjik. I think I am going to have to paint my fender flares soon. Magic Eraser and 303 aren't cutting it for me.

 

I just took off the fenders super clean

 

I am going to...I cant wait to get some armor on this truck!!

 

Call him, from all the business I did with him I realized calling works better than emailing...this goes with pretty much any business though.

 

Yeah, I bought some Magic Eraser (for tough jobs) and it worked well. But for the amount of elbow grease I put into, it didn't last long.

I have so many chunks of fiberglass missing from my flares that I need to do it right.

Fill it in with fiberglass (or bondo.. will that work?), sand, prep, prime and paint.

No flares on lifted trucks looks very sweet.

No flares on stock trucks looks very base and incomplete IMO

 

I did that too but found a surprise of faded paint and rust... They went back on pretty quick

 

Yeah, mine are plastic, not fiberglass, so no chips to fill. I intend to use the Duplicolor plastic adhesion promoter plus satin back, or Duplicolor's palstic trim paint. Whatever they recommend.