What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

I’m fairly certain they were color matched to start with. So I should be good if I understand correctly.

 

Well if I look up the vin on my new truck it was not a limited but it was a TRD OR. It also noted colored keyed bumpers and flares...

 

Well now I’m confused. It’s a bit of a contradiction, you it’s said the Limited models came color keyed..

 

95.5-04 were the Defiant Teenage years of Toyota where a lot of Dope was done and no one really knows exactly what happened.

 

There was a limited (color matched front bumper and flares, chrome rear bumper, mirrors, grille and door handles), then there was a color-keyed package (color matched grille, front/rear bumpers, fender flares and door handles):

My old limited:


color-keyed package:


I prefer the color keyed package with the limited front seats.

 

Color-matched was standard on Limited, and was an optional package on other trims (note: it may have required at least the SR5 package as well, I don't recall)

 

Gotta get 22ethan(?..) on a group buy for those skids he makes!,,,,

 

The guys are right will. The limited wasnt the only one that came with color matched flares. I was confused too when i saw @FirstTimeFirstGen rig. I also like the color matched look. I would say one of my fav's is the one in the banner @LSC15 . but his was a limited

 

Mine was not a limited

 

Well. Shows what i know...lol. But also proves the point i was making. Haha

 

True lol

 

Not a limited here.

 

Mine is a Limited and I hate the chrome side mirrors and door handles, and I un-color matched my fender flares in the first week of having the truck

 

Fender Flares:

95-97 came with that little chrome strip

98-00 used fiberglass fender flares

01-04 used HDPE for flares

Although someone here did report that his 01-04 with color match flares were made from fiberglass.

 

Now there’s another 99 with HDPE flares.
Shoulda used a semi gloss or flat black, maybe I’ll color match them in the spring.
140$ invested all together

 

I'd leave them black.

1. Better looking IMO

2. Easier to touch up.

 

Gotta love winter storms.

 

Soooon

 

Neeeevvvvvveeerrrrr

 

Well that’s lame