What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Thought some of you may enjoy this video.

 

met up with @N2DesignsInc to test out his remote starter for my 6MT.

Had to do a few fancy shots

 

I have had my seat defenders for 3 years now. Works for me too!

 

F5’s are on.

 

Painted skid plate
Baja Designs decal

 

Dip or paint?

 

Paint

 

Literally never heard of that kind. I was thinking if I glue in a piece of vinyl then I can stick the stickers to that

 

https://www.clazzio.com/

Research the threads here for more info, plenty of discussion around. Sometimes they have your kit in standard colors in stock (which was my case). So I got lucky and ordered Monday and had them Thursday. For popular kits or custom kits, some folks wait anywhere from a few weeks to a few months. Just depends. They have great customer service, call them up with any questions.

During install, just take your time and have a beer while you're doing it.

For the seat bottom, the hardest part is tying off the white string under the seat (without removing the seat from the truck, which I wanted to avoid). There are two black straps with buckles that run front/rear to help hold the bottom piece snug. These are easy to tighten by reaching underneath. The white string you cinch and secure underneath which runs perpendicular to the black straps - I wish they'd find a way to use the same buckle for that -- it would be WAY easier to tighten and secure. Like I said if you remove the seat you can tie it off very easily, but with the seat installed its tricky to get under there with hands to properly and tightly tie off the knot.They include a dull plastic "knife" to help you push and tuck the cover into and behind some of the seats plastic.

The seat back wasn't too bad either. The booklet tells you (and I think it helps a little) to turn the cover inside-out about half way and slide it on this way first, and work it onto the top of the seat as far and as snug as you can. THEN, you kind of unroll the rest down over the lower portion of the seat. It would be much harder if you just take the fully unfolded cover and try to work it down over the seat in one shot, you'd be doing a lot of scrunching.

The headrest covers were probably the trickiest, although you wouldn't think so. Mostly because they are such a glove tight fit, so it takes effort to work them on. They point out in the booklet to be careful not to pull hard on a specific section on the cover, due to chance of ripping it -- heed this advice! I slightly put a small tear in the one corner (you cant see it when install is done) when pulling too hard on a specific portion of the cover without being too careful. So, be careful! My tip for the headrest covers is to first start to slide the cover on the top, and make sure it is straight (later on, if its rotated left or right a little, it is much harder to straighten so that the stitching looks). Then work it down a little at a time, alternating left side then right side. As you work each side, pinch and compress the headrest itself real hard, then slip the cover down a little. Alternate sides and eventually it'll go on. I started with the headrest still installed, until the cover was about 85-90% on, then I popped it off and pulled it the rest of the away on and this seemed a little easier.

Oh yea, dont forget to take sips of the aforementioned beer during the whole process.

 

Do you know of a list of these service roads in our area that are open to the public? Don't do any extreme off road driving but would enjoy some of these and may be able to convince the wife to go as well.

 

I washed the key fob by accident. I hope it still works

 

Looks like you need to push that right one a little further in a the top, looks misaligned. Just trying to look out....Bright AF....

 

Never heard wonderful and IL in the same sentence. You must have a hell of a spot!

 

I did the Kicker speaker upgrade in the dash, it was definitely worth the 80ish bucks. Definitely a clearer sound. But after I put the driver side pillar cover back on, I noticed a bit of felt cushioning on the floor, it must have come out of the pillar cover. I took pillar off again but can't figure out where this little cushion goes. Anyone have an idea?

 

That looks like the felt in the door handle pocket

 

You nailed it, thank you mucho. Now I won't obsess over not getting things back correctly.

 

I'm with @jasperkat looks like the door handle felt.

 

After 10 years of PCS's, deployments to shit holes, etc. IL which is my home, sounds wonderful. Lol.

 

Thank you! I had noticed it... I had a wire caught on the one side. Pulled, reinstalled, and good to go.

 

The white was my first choice for the Tacoma. But, I ended up with the black because it was the one on the lot with the options I wanted. Now, putting on an awesome hood vinyl like you did. Little out of ideas. Thought of doing it in magnetic gray metallic.