What Have You Done To Your 2nd Gen Tacoma Today?

By backlight is already yellow! Haha

 

Very nice! If you want to make it brighter I can offer some tips.

 

Yes please!

 

Ok.

For more reflectivity you can paint the AC condenser, radiator, horns etc. with silver paint. I used high temp BBQ paint.

The more light you have the brighter it will be. I have several 12" Alpena amber "MAX" LED strips that I bought at Autozone. I have also seen them on Amazon. These are the brightest strips I have seen anywhere but they are not cheap! I figure a have a couple hundred invested just in the strips in the grille...Yes I'm a bit obsessed.

Finally, if you can distribute the light a little more evenly you can get the whole grille to light up. I have strips just about everywhere I can fit them so they all face the AC condenser. I even have 4 strips on the aluminum bar down by the lower valance.

 

Wow!!! I got a ways to go then! Haha I'll pick up some paint and spray the insides while I have the grill off for the red paint on it. I'm just not all that familiar with what parts can and cannot be sprayed. I don't know much about condensers or radiators lol

 

Got a little bag of led's

 

I raise you a raptor

 

Today I started the Up2NoGood heated mirror mod... The weather wasn't cooperating (no garage), but I reached 50% completion. Driver side is done and the switch is wired. I just need to get the passenger side done and power the system. Not nearly as bad of a job as I had anticipated.

 

Hey no fair! I want one!

 

Thinking about painting badges as well. Did you remove badges, paint them and then glue them back on? Or did you mask off and paint?

 

With plastidip paint I recommend you just mask and paint. But I used spray paint so I took them off painted them. Then used 3m outdoor tape to put them back on. Just make sure you tape off the area the badge is on when still on the truck. That way you know exactly where to put it back. I just had to kinda assume where they went because I didn't do that

 

It's the three leaf progressive add a leaf from toytec. Bilstein 5100 shocks.

 

Finally pulled the trigger on Wet Okoles...I think they look and feel great; however, they do no contours perfectly flush with the seat in the middle. For the money and aggravation it took to install them (I was less frustrated lifting the truck) I'll probably forgo them in the future.

 

They look great!! Much better than my costco specials. I'm not sure that any seat covers would contour because of the design of the seat.

 

Yeah, I agree. Just thought it was worth noting since they look so tight in all the pictures online. They have built in slits to let air escape and it's really only noticeable when you first sit back into the seat, they take a few seconds to "reinflate" so it's not noticeable past that.

 

Aggravation? No issues with my install. Getting under the seat was tough part. What happened?

 

Washed all of the salt off of it, and as far underneath of it as I could get at the car wash by hand from our snow storm earlier this week.

 

Sweet! Last year it was the Princesses FJ that I delivered in my FJ.

 

The more you sit in the the more it conforms. After awhile it pretty much goes away completely. If you want a tight fit from the get go, get some katzkins. Now those are real seat 'covers'

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/katzkin-leather-for-your-tacoma.313544/

 

Better pics from this morning.