What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Not a problem. Always happy to help our neighbors to the north.

 

I had fun doing this with some new brakes on an old car of mine a few years back. I found it best to do it super early in the morning before dawn on a nice and straight road (so the force would be even). I was debating on doing it after midnight, but I was afraid the cops would see me and pull me over because they thought I was drunk or racing. lol

 

Nice one! Kabayan

 

Sold my stocks today!! What to buy for the Taco now? Lol!!!

 

Nice! I need a snorkel for when it floods here in Houston... I was going to put one on my corolla before I sold it. But now I have a truck

 

Added some wheel center caps! These are the 4.25" model black Rock center caps from summit racing.com, only cost me $7 a piece/$28 total but came out pretty well and these definitely fit snug against the rim face, great fitment overall.

 

Do you have a step by step on this? I soo want to do this to my 17 TRD/AC TACO!!!!

 

you may have just pushed me over the edge on this. how techy are you? 30 minutes seems fast. i would assume the wiring harness comes with instructions?

 

Do you have more pictures on how ypu installed the front camera on the pro grill?

 

I was wondering how much determination (or beer) is required to put the big hole in the fender.

 

1) Buy the harness and camera...examples I used in the post and my build thread.
2) Read the directions, in Chinese, and then throw them out.
3) Put all the stuff out on a bench and figure out the wiring.
4) Pull the Stereo Head: youtube if needed, but basically you tease off the cowl and unbolt the Head.
5) Attach the two cables from the Harness Kit that fit into the two connectors/sockets in the back of the Head...only two that fit...male-female, same with other end of the harness to now free cables.
6) Attache all the switch wires, video cables and harness wires to the supplied adapter in the Harness Kit...it is actually labeled in English...and this is your guide to how the thing works in the first place.
7) Fish all the wires back/down behind the Head and reinstall the head (leave the cowl off until you test).
8) Find a spot for your switch and install...if you chose the spot I did, see my build thread on how I removed that panel for my KCs switches.
9) Mount the camera up front with its supplied hardware.
10) Route the vid cable through the firewall (Grommet behind left foot) and make the power/video connections to the camera adapter cables (which is the only thing you have left, as it is in Chinese, so it's got to be the part).
11) Start the car and push the button - All good? Nice, bundle up all your wiring and cable tie it all up, tape and neatly everywhere. Not Good, trace it all and figure out the problems.
12) Reinstall the Head Cowl
13) Pic it up and get the Likes!

Note I didn't take any WiP pics as wiring is a skill you either know or don't and is very individualize as to how people route...I'm pretty obsessed with making it neat/labeled and traceable, others just slap it in a pray.

 

Comes with a back plate, just tighten the screw and cable ties. It also fits in the stock grill in the logo supposedly.

 

See License Plate:

 

oh hell.... yeah, didn't catch that.

 

Mall Crawl for me today. It was awesome .......

 

Looks great! Where did you find a good glove box organizer? I am looking for one

 

Sale on Amazon. they also made the centre console organizer and the tray. I got the half tray because I keep some taller items in there.

 

Put my Waterport on.

 

It sits so high compared to the original

 

I can pretty much figure out anything that someone else already built. I can read schematics and have done tons of wiring under the dash/hood and etc. But I’ll always learn, I read directions and plan things out. If you can hook up a home stereo receiver, can find things on YouTube and wait until you finish before smoking a joint (today is 4:20 right -joke) anyone can do this in two hours or less. Hope that’s more polite answer.