Northern Virginia Roll Call

Yes. We have Enterprise rent-a-car in house

 

At the mod day on the 9th at @Me. Projekt's place. I have some shipping damage to the powder coat that I'm slowly working on touching up, and I have to mount my winch. I've got the bulk of it done. I just need to haul the bunker in the backyard to finish to spray some bed liner.

No limit straps, but according to the install directions, they're not included (sold separately). I emailed JT about this because the straps are showed in the kit parts photo on their website, and nowhere does it say they aren't included. He said they "forgot" them and would get them mailed out tomorrow. I haven't received my Kings yet, either. He thinks they've shipped, and he's checking on tracking info.

 

I may just have to drop by said mod day

 

That's good man you checked. It's depressing that they missed that. That seems retarded though to not offer to have straps with the kit as I can see some guy going off road with it installed and then blow up his shocks. I would def get it strapped before doing anything with it.

 

Do you do the appraisal, or do you have a specific guy

 

Julie in the office handles all the USAA work. She writes the preliminary estimate, then I'll disassemble the damaged area to make sure nothing has been missed and no hidden damages. I'll add anything additional I find to her estimate. She submits it to USAA, orders the parts, and we start working on it.

 

Yeah. It seems weird that the straps wouldn't be included. Especially since their website shows them with the kit parts, and I think just about every other kit for the Tacoma comes with them. I'll still probably end up picking up some strap adjusters before I install.

 

That's good, I just got USAA insurance. You guys did good work when someone hit my rear right fender on my old Subaru.

 

USAA is good until you get hit by someone who also has USAA, then all of a sudden they act like the world has ended, but if it is another insurance company, man are they quick.

 

That's good to know. Soon as I marry the girlfriend I am looking forward to having access to USAA bank too.

 

I just signed up for a USAA account through my sister, who was army. I'll be switching my insurance over from geico if they can beat the rates and coverages (I'm sure they can). Before that I had allstate and they were killing me on premiums. Never once did I file a claim with them, and my rates went up every year for no reason. When they hit $900 every six months for my truck and the ex's suv, I said no thanks. 20 years as a loyal customer and thats how they treat a person. With geico they got me to about $400 every six months, so over half off with same coverage and very similar deductibles.

Now that its just me on my insurance, I am down to about $36 a month, so whats that about $200 every six months?

 

Yeah, no joke. I had Progressive before I switched to Geico, and now I am on USAA. When I was shopping for my truck Progressive was going to raise my 6 month rate by 400 bucks if I made the switch. I told them to take a hike and switched to Geico, which has been pretty good, I just get a better rate with USAA now.

 

One week left on the 5th group buy for the rear seat MOLLE panel if anyone is interested:

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...uy-for-2nd-3rd-gen-dc-or-ac-rear-seat.410254/

 

USAA is the best.

 

They don't come with adjustable clevises? Shit man, I know they are new to the game but DAMN!

 

Sadly, I know exactly what you mean.

 

I'll hire your ass........

those look sweeeeeeett I'm drooling over here.

nice man! looking forward to it... I have to do the same.... mount winch, install bumper..... and like 1000 other things haha

the more the merrier! (and the more hands we have haha)

 

so @jschona1 , I'm leaving my work at 3:25pm today.... gonna be over at @DOUBLLD 's shop around 3:50-4:00 if you want to meet me over there....I'll give you your cash

then I get to go meet Karen up, drop the Miata off at the new owners house, and then head home

 

I'll be out of work at around 2:30 and DoubllD's shop isn't too far from my house.

 

sounds good to me! see you up there!