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

I do not have one of these and have no first hand experience. Looks like it's powered via USB only. I wouldn't try to power it with anything below 5v 2A since spinny hard drives take quite a bit of power to spin up from standstill.

 

As soon as free up money wanna get that bad boy painted on Taco & spot lights mounted too! I went down for thanksgiving. I'm originally from there. I bought my truck in Fredericksburg VA. Drove 3hrs to look & buy it. Fell in love w/ Barcelona red w/ black fenders! Lol

 

Nice! Can't wait to see some pics.

 

Prolly been said before, but..... WD-40 is not a penetrant.

As long as you're open to alternatives though.... check this out !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qqMXXGgFQg

 

haha yeh I know buts its all I had kicking around lol it was a last minute thing cuz I had to go pick up my new bed.
great video, I hope I can try that some day

 

Any before pics?

 

Yeah man, I was surprised you did that!

 

They will be posted when the deed is done !

 

hmmm my pioneer only puts out 1A not sure what voltage tho haha ill figure something out

 

odd cuz im pretty sure you have those shims in backwards making your angle worse. unless im seeing the picture wrong.

 

I jump started my tacoma with a Halo Bolt! It worked!!

 

backwards, unless fat side goes forward.

 

USB will be 5v.. for the extra amps, you could rig up your own cable to run power from a 5v 2A adapter and bypass the power from the Pioneer. That way you get power from the 5v 2A adapter and only have the data cable (green, usually) connected to the Pioneer.

 

How long do they hold their charge for?(without being used)

 

so apparently the Seagate you showed me has a lithium battery built into it but I don't think it can run off the battery while plugged in. now are you talking about getting real fancy and open/splice the usb cable? cuz if I'm not mistaken the HD power and dater transfer thru the one cable. another problem is that I would have to reformat it to FAT12/16/32 in order for it to be recognized by the HU and they say the HD must remain in NTFS for it to work, if that's true or not I'm not sure. but in a positive not according to pioneer there are no limits to the size of HD I can plug in as long as its in the proper format. starting to look like I might have to just manually load songs onto a HD I can reformat

 

My wife bought it for me for my birthday in April. Probably in late April/early May, I charged it and threw it under my rear seat...I remember it took along time to charge; like 6 or 8 hours. I actually forgot all about it until today when I went out to go to the store and my battery was dead...click, click...click. I thought I would give it a try before jumping my Tacoma with another vehicle. Temperature was around 5F. Cranked right up.... as advertised!!! Still show's 3 bars (out of 4) on the charge scale.

EDIT:
Battery was dead again this morning. Used the Halo Bolt again and it worked just fine. My battery was a Sears Diehard Gold 27F purchased in Jan 2015, had a 3-year warranty so I went back to Sears, they tested it and CCA was only @ 300+ so they replaced for N/C.

 

I use on pb blaster!

 

How much does it weigh compared to the stock bumper

 

In the market for some retrofits. Really want a pair similar to this, debating on whether I should build them myself or have them done by somebody else. They don't look that diffult to do. What's y'all input?

 

Bought a @HomerTaco grill insert for my 15, and did my best redition of a Satoshi.