What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

YES!!


You would not believe how many people don't get it.

 

Used that faceapp that makes you look old...

https://www.instagram.com/p/B0GzJqPA7zf/?igshid=2y8yewxuus5q

 

Gotta get in on your next outing! This looks like a great time!

 

Well, if you're going to quote me, you should do it in context. Here's what I was responding to:

I read that as: "Nothing happened (this time), so what's the big deal?" It sounded dismissive to me, and I have the same reaction to this as when someone in their 20s, who doesn't have health insurance, says "Hey, I'm perfectly healthy, why should I buy health insurance? I'll buy it later on when I NEED it. Ha!"

Sure, @jmauvais later when on to talk about Cali's stricter building codes (that's great), and how nothing really bad has happened yet, so everything must be fine. Mmmm, not sure I'm buying that. That Northridge quake in '94 looks like it caused a bit more than nothin'.





Maybe it's relative. If you weren't one of the 57 dead, 8700 injured, or 125,000 left homeless*, then i guess it wasn't so bad.

Even when the people in a given area are prepared for something, poop still happens. Chicago is as prepared for heavy snowfall as any city in the North, and yet...


Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, 2011

...and I still see people every winter, driving, apparently without an ice scraper or snow brush since the snow's piled a foot high on their car and they're peering out of a hole in the snow on their windshield that their defroster managed to melt.

Some threats are obvious (earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, snowstorms). Some not so obvious...


Lac-Mégantic (Quebec) train car derailment, 2013

My original point was that everyone, everywhere, should be minimally prepared to deal with adversity both at home and on the road. I wasn't picking on Californians, just using them as the latest example of how *most* (not all) people do not think ahead. @jmauvais says that he has provided ample emergency supplies for his family so he can go out and do his (very important) job. That's fantastic, I would just like to see more people doing this.

* - SCPR.org

 

TVD decals

 

Not today but last night found a sport hood semi local and he agreed to meet up after I got off work (1 1/2 hour drive arriving at 2130). Get his hood off and set aside so we can take mine from my truck to his as a courtesy. As were bolting on the sport hood I notice a water spot in the rear near the windshield and go to wipe away and it doesn’t. A solid dent at the rear crease. I checked under the hood and there’s no way to access the spot to have the dent pushed out and reshaped without cutting into the lower support. Tell the guy no deal as he wanted cash on top of the trade on his end. Swapped back and left.

I was so exited that whole day thinking about it and left empty handed! But I was pretty glad that I was able to overcome my instant gratification and hold out. Now to find another person to swap with.

 

Got this Falken hat to wear in my 3rd Gen

 

Nice. You have the AT’s, because the $1100 I spent on the Wildpeak MT01’s seems like the biggest waste of money I’ve spent on my truck

 

Added some Rhino Rack rails to the tonneau cover. Up next - Rooftop Tent! (Bedtop tent?)

 

My cap for my 2017 OR was installed today. Looks good. Went thru a heavy rain on way home and bed stayed dry.

 

Tweeter upgrade, finally. Not much of an audiophile, but it does sound better

 

What cap is that?

 

Told ya you would love them!

 

Really great work, if I didn’t have the Softopper on the way, I think I may have gone in this direction

 

Yeah, well... noted.

 

Or in the words of Mike Zimmer "Let's go kickass on some cheese".

 

Installed some amber morimoto fogs and I decided to play around with a can of white plastidip. I gave my engine cover the ol tactical faded old glory treatment and sprayed my dash trim. Overall very happy with it all.

 

So far I've done, roll and lock bed cover, carbon fiber TRD door sill protectors, carbon fiber tail gate inserts, Tyger running boards/ sliders, HID's, and halo fog lights. But cant really see them with the pic because there pretty bright.

 

Anyone needing to step their rock slider game up, now is the time @SOS CONCEPTS is running a flash sale this weekend. 15% off sounds pretty damn good, go get you some and then go beat em up.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/slider-flash-sale.620218/