Chicagoland area members

It was nice to meet you too thanks for the deal on the brakes and rotors.

 

You bet, anytime

 

Hi everyone- new TW member, but not new to Toyota. I live in Aurora/ Naperville. Would love to go to a group meetup if anything coming up.

 

Join Chicagoland Toyota Tacoma group on Facebook. There is always meet ups going on Sundays in Schaumburg

 

This. There was one this past Sunday.

 

Joined on FB. Thanks guys!

 

Anyone here have paint and body work experience?

Shop or personal experience.

I want to take on a project and would like to speak with someone about it or even possibly have a shop do it.

Slide into my DMs

 

I have extensive experience sculpting the body panels using trees and rocks, and adding texture and character to the paint, also with trees and rocks. I also excel at hacktackular fender trimming with jigsaw's.

 

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Finishing up my move today to the Chicago area from NYC. Any recommendations for wheeling around here?

 

I'm here in Island Lake Il.

 

Welcome. Where are you roughly?

There's river road rally park in McHenry IL that's a smaller park to scratch an itch for a day.

There's cliffs insane terrain in Marseille IL.

There's Badlands in Attica IN.

There's the Trans-Wisconsin Adventure Trail in Wisconsin.

Some of the Wisconsin guys are heading up to Boulder Lake in September to a place called pipeline.

Join chi town off-road Toyotas on Facebook. We post everything there.

 

If anyone is interested........I’ll be putting my Soft topper up for sale, but giving local guys first crack at it.........

I always wanted one, I waited for the right deal, jumped on it, finally put it on and now I really don’t know if I want it.......I definitely don’t need it. So I’m thinking I could use this money towards some other mod to my truck. I did buy this from another member.

The (black topper) is approx 2 months old, as I was told. I have no reason not to believe this as it looks brand new. The original owner bought it with a rear mesh panel $89 extra.

I purchased a new rear panel with black tint $64 and a solid rear panel also $64 (this I bought for the winter because I heard the plastic window may crack under extreme cold....it has never been installed.)

I have a 2nd gen but I bought this from a 3rd gen owner. All I had to do was purchase the rear bar that slides into the bottom of the rear panel to snap it in place, as well as the brackets. ($17)
The 3rd gen uses a curved rear bar while the 2nd gens use a straight bar. According to softtopper, they say the frames and top are identical with the only difference being the rear bars I explained up above.

I was looking specially for a 3rd gen top because through all my research I found the 3rd gen top sits better on a 2nd gen then a 2nd gen top fits on a 2nd gen.

Yes, I get above I told you softtopper states the top and frames are the same. Do a search on here and you’ll find a few threads on this very topic.

So whether you have a 3rd or 2nd gen, mine will work because I have both rear bars. Straight and curved. As well as the appropriate brackets for each bar.

So all together new this shit comes to like $980ish.

I’d take $675 for everything if you are interested. Or shoot me a fair offer but honestly I probably won’t move much. It does not leak, it does not make noise while driving even with the sides and rear rolled up. Also it is for a short bed. I can send pics of whatever you need.

I can meet somewhere if needed to make the exchange or you can come to my house and we can install it there. It’s a very easy install.

Let me know if your interested.

Juan

 

@JuanitoBunito did you get the topper from a guy around here on Craigslist by chance? If so, you bought it from him before I could get to him.

 

Happened to me too. Not the softtopper but fender flares a few years back.

 

No I did not. He is out of Hawaii

 

I’m interested!

 

I’m specifically moving to naperville, thanks for the info man!

 

@TRDjoe15 I'm just down the road in Oswego, if you like dive bar burgers and cheap beer I can point you in all the right directions.

 

Sounds like my cup of tea man!