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

That's funny, I got rear ended a couple weeks after I Rusto bedlined my bumper quick touch up sprays and it's all good

Been over a year now and it's still holding up amazing!

 

mines getting to be about that long. i sometimes regretting doing it so far up the sides though

 

that looks great!! Im thinking of doing the sides like that





since my wife hit the fence the other day now theres a nice lil dent on the rear passenger door down by the bottom

 

I always wondered how it would turn up for guys that bedline their rockers if they were to bedline it then color match over it

Someone should guinea pig that idea!

 

color match over top, never thought about it. don't know how well the paint would adhere to it though

 

I ordered one last week. A few days later I got an email with my order # and that it was shipped USPS. Got it in the mail today and installed it.

 

Nice! If I were to get one, that's the exact spot I was thinking of mounting it. Is that just velcro mounted?

 

I used the vertical surface mount...seemed to fit well right there. I removed the big plastic piece under the steering wheel and routed the cable through there...looks clean and no holes drilled. Took 10 minutes tops. Kinda covers the little LED red light for the security system..but i park the truck on my property and I have a loud dog and lots of guns so i'm cool with the cover up of the little blinking red light.

 

Haha that works! I've got a viper system so my led is up on the windshield so no worries there. How much did you end up paying total with the mount and all (after rebate)??

 

Rebate? Shoots...didn't know about that. I think I was around $75 out the door.

 

Just use the tintable raptor liner and color match it and spray away.. You'll get a much better bedline product than the spray can stuff

 

Many writeups on this... I decided to swap my taco's HVAC controller with a used 02 4Runner one, easy plug and play mod. Plan to get rid of all the orange (I actually still do like the color at night) and going with the green center console (I do like more). It's part of the horrible separation anxiety issues* I'm having jumping ship form my old 3rd gen 4runner to Cargo, my 1st gen taco. More on why I did the entire unit swap vs just swapping the faceplates are posted on my build.


*Interestingly, when I had a Prius as my DD I never had this kind of separation anxiety moving away from a vehicle to another, but boy did that fckr save me on gas $!! lol

Orange paint taco faceplates VS no color paint on 4Runner :


Easy plug in play swap:


Got some green in the buttons, nice to not see an orange AC button anymore (I've got some OCD issues ):

 

haha

 

is it stupid to have 2 first gen tacomas? lol

im thinking of picking up another one. 4x4 this time!!

 

heck no! since your'e in Cali i've heard their hot commodities out there

 

Today:

Husky floor liners (haven't put in the pass side yet)




Revamped interior...just have to adjust the wet okole seat covers and put the side covers back onto the seats.




Not today:

K&N FIPK (I know, I know...I got it because my stock intake was cracked and falling apart...will be running a UNI foam filter over the K&N filter)



Welded in an angle-iron cross member onto my 4xinnovations front bumper so I can run stock skids again.

 

Very nice, Jon! Where'd you get those husky liners from?

 

installed the homemade offroad bumper

 

That's a nice "homemade" bumper. Love the look and the light hoop!