What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

All nice and clean and shiny for the garage huh ? lol

What rims and tires are those you have on there ? I wonder if they would look good on my blue Taco. im so undecided on what rims and tires to get I cant decide lol.

 

Hows the pressure on it ? i mean can you like hook an air hose to it and use it to dust yourself off from being in the sand box as well as using small tools and tire inflation ?

 

Haha yeah nice and shiny for the garage and there Volk TE37s and yeah in my opinion TEs look good and everything i know the looks not for everyone but if I had a blazing blue taco I would go with the mag blue TEs lol but that's just me

 

Whare did you get the rail ? and did it come with the tie-downs ?

 

Cool thanks yeah those blue ones look pretty tempting.

 

Keeps us informed on what you do because im in a similar situation ( Bait and Switch type) and i dont know what to do either.

 

No problem!! And yeah those mag blue TEs would look so nice on a BB Tacoma

 

You've got a nice pile of stuff heading towards Germany!!

 

I know I can't wait to get that unit. Gonna be a blast to get setup.

 

Whats the insurance like over there, I've heard from an army guy stationed in Italy that insurance is like $600 a month, thats pretty terrible. Also whats the deal with fuel, will cars from US accept EU octane rating no problem?

 

Suspension and tire setup?

 

Couple days ago I did this and posted it elsewhere on TW but thought some people might want to see my 'TRD-style' valve cover. Did 3-4 coats of extra thick red paint to cover up the textured bits as much as possible, then used a nice white paint pen from the craft store to do the letters and clear coated everything with satin clear coat. Pretty sure it was this: https://www.stuff4crafts.com/painte...K-3AWzOZnKZtkGEBzLe6v3uI1fmEw-qBOARoC-dDw_wcB
red paint, but I don't remember the brand on the paint pen. Here are the results:

 

There are actually a few reasons. The backlight is one. We also tested out a few different sizes and liked the smaller size best because it makes it easier to spin the knob by rolling it in your fingers vs a wrist movement. This is personal preference of course but I like the knob vs the wheel controls because it lets me go from really loud to really quiet in one quick motion. The smaller knob rotates more than a larger one does for the same amount of "finger roll." It was enough a difference to make me prefer the smaller knob. The last reason is that the smaller diameter exerts less force on the radio posts. The stock knobs don't stick out as far so its less of an issue but our knobs stick out more. The larger diameter combined with more stickout resulted in just a tiny amount of noticeable wobble... they still worked just fine but I didn't like how they felt as much. All of this is minutiae in a lot of ways but we did think about the diameter... it wasn't a random decision

 

Do you go through the German TUV Safety Inspections or do you get them done on Post? Be careful what Mods you make to suspension etc. because you could get failed on inspection and have to revert to Stock setup.

 

See a few posts up. No, it doesn't come with tie downs.

 

Excellent point on the Hondo knobs! Now everyone has heard it from the horses mouth so to speak! Lol. Great job. I hated the other knobs, even though I have steering wheel controls, I still like the knobs.

 

Got these Go-Rhinos added to the new LTD yesterday...need some bed lights next.

 

Don't believe you.

 

I absolutely will. Sorry to hear you've had a similar experience.

 

I've got a red TRD button but it's 11-pin not 8-pin...trying to figure out how to build my own harness for it when I find myself with a spare afternoon. I'll keep ya posted.