3rd GEN BARCELONA RED TACOMAS!!

Hahaha anytime. Happy to help. Good luck.

 

What's wrong with gramdpa trucks?
Whippersnapper

 

the day i got it 2019 TSS SR 4x4 v6

 

First trip Load Out to big Bend over the new year holiday this year!

 

Unfortunately I hit a deer on the way back from Big Bend - opportunity!!!

 

Tacoma took the deer like a champ insurance paid for a new bumper and I added the Old Man Emu with 886's and Dakar's with SPC Upper Control Arms to make it ride right -

 

The day I got the truck - I ordered some early prototype relation race wheels hybrid bead-lock - they finally came in 3 weeks ago. I am still running the stock 265/65/17 Nitto Terra Grappler G2's that came on the truck - will run these until they need to be replaced good tires.

 

Some from that trip to Big Bend 2020 -

 

You can take a Rhino down with that new front end What is TSS trim? Is that a local Texas trim package?

 

How are you liking the ARB? I want to go that route one day. Just wish it didn't stick out quite so far.

 

you are correct - the TSS pkg is something the GULF STATES TOYOTA DISTRIBUTOR does to Tacoma's and Tundra's here is Texas. As far as I can tell it is 100% aesthetic - black wheels and the Nitto tires with some running boards. Thats on an SR5 -

 

It looks good, the small details make it look a lot better.

 

Works well - the SPLASH Panels make a ton of racket! but other than that the bumper is great - I need to take them off, use some bicycle inner tube and reattach them - but again other than the racket from the 'splash pannels' it is fine - i believe I cut my inner fender liners incorrectly and that is a major contributor to the racket - its annoying but I've not had a chance to diagnosis further than making sure it wasn't going to fall off the truck - Its a big bumper but its a solid one and alot for the money - imo - the ARB fits the lines the best but again that is personal opinion - I looked and considered the Addictive Desert Designs stuff, but I dislike rectangular light bars with violent opinions and A.D.D. bumpers require rectangular light bars so i didn't do that!

 

Sweet! ARBs have a great profile and look so rugged. I'm not a fan of how some bumpers take too much of an angle from the front fenders towards the centerline, exposing a lot of the front suspension. It just looks weird, like the Taco lost a lot of its lower jaw. The ARB doesn't do that as much. It's also beefy.

What and where are the splash panels?

 

i took a few pictures to illustrate - I believe that is what they are called - basically they bolt to the bottom side of the bumper to finish off the look the factory splash guards on mine are literally wedged into these. The noise is coming from the banging between the splash guard and the inner fender liner. As previously stated the appropriate amount of trimming would probably solved, again my splash guards are touching the inner fender liners at the cut line

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Gen 3 ARB Front Bumper
OME Old Man EMU 886 Spring

 

I think I can visualize that. Thanks!

 

Cheers!

 

Will it fit a 20?

 

should as long as it has a TSS sensor. But you’ll have to look yourself

 

Update: added a victory blitz bumper and smittybilt x20 winch