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

Gave mine a well needed bath yesterday. Since it was almost 70*, I had no excuse not to. Going to finish detailing it today.

 

Gave my seats some much needed attention and will be ordering seat covers this weekend. Here is a 50/50 shot (half dirty, half clean) after I steamed cleaned my driver's side seat. YUCK.

 

Dirty Texan

 

I need to throw some covers on my 15' seats before they get dirty and start to tear at the drivers side door edge

 

Hahaha

If you look closely I have a small cigarette burn hole on my driver's side that was there from the previous owner but thankfully has not gotten worse, but its another reason I need covers.

 

Changed my cabin air filter today, I wondered why it seemed so dusty in there

 

traded in my old frontier for a 2012 tacoma. my first toyota and im very happy with it.

had to put a new battery/ alternator in it


threw on some toyo ATs, Air Ride bags, 5100s and bed lights from this forum

 

Not a big deal but did this today. Been wanting these for a while

 

Today I installed a 50" curved light bar and two pods. The provided harnesses made the wiring part super easy too!

 

I know where you got those! But side note. Did the pods plug directly into the harness that they provided? You should throw up a full wiring guide that you did for it on your build page

 

Admired it while I cleaned the garage. Then wired a button up to hide the garage door opener for funsies.

 

Yeah, I bought the double harness which allowed me to just plug both pods right into the harness. The wire guide is simple... the harnesses are already fused so you just have to grab power from the battery and find a good ground spot (I just used the ground off of the battery). To plug in the pods just run the plugs along existing wires to reach both sides of the truck and plug them directly in. Then you just run the wires through the fire wall into the cabin for the switches and the plug for the bar up top through the A-pillar.

 

finally, my candy that I ordered arrived. oh, and they threw in some extra rubber things with it as well



thanks Wheelers

 

Polished and waxed for the first time since she came home in July. Going to vacuum out the inside tomorrow.

 

Just paid for Avid bolt-on sliders w/ kickout. Can't wait to get back to my truck for holiday leave and get those and the SCS F5s waiting for me put on

 

Had a terrible rattle coming from the back, sounded like the box was going to come off the frame. Found two loose bed bolts. Tightened them down and smooth sailing once again although I am a little disturbed how they came loose to begin with.

 

Doing the upgraded headlight harness and osram 70/65w bulbs this weekend. Still waiting on the bulbs to come in.


Oh and I picked this up today....



Can't wait for the weekend!

 

Ripped out the rear end and order a new posi for it

 

No picture, but turned over 35K on my 2015 today.

 

Finally chopped my mud flaps. Pulled the Mud Flaps off the Taco for a snow run this weekend and decided to chop them while they were off. I've seen lots of different suggestions for length and settled on taking 5 inches off the fronts (this makes them the same length as the ones on my 1st gen Tundra) and took about 2" off the rears...cut them right at the bottom of the 4X4 as to cut them to the same length as the fronts went right through the middle of the 4X4. Many thanks to the poster who commented about using a heat gun and a razor knife for the mod. Worked very well and made it quite easy. Even with the "special tool" I trashed 3 of the clips for the mud flaps. All were the very bottom one, so maybe a combo of them getting crud in them and it being cold out. Haven't put them back on yet, but here are a couple of pics of the trim job. A stock front with a trimmed one, and the full set.