What Have You Done To Your 2nd Gen Tacoma Today?

Appreciate it

 

Looks good! You’ll love them, I use them all the time.

 

Thanks man! For sure, I could have made use of them before. Better late than never

 

One more question: part numbers for the rings? I wouldn't mind installing them on the forward 4 bed bolts. Thinking about a bed "stiffener" for the back, so that will have tiedowns.

 

Does that part number come in black as seen on the left in the pic below?

 

What tint did you use?

 

First post on this thread.. however I have been lurking for some time.

Started a deep clean/detail on the Tacoma yesterday. Carpets and seats are clean, with a de-greasing and wipedown of all surfaces on the agenda for today.

Might even get my CaliRaised fogs thrown in if the wife can keep the 2 y/o occupied long enough.

 

I'm afraid to ask what happened to stain those rear seats ...

 

I installed the Pop n Lock tailgate handle, I think I installed it this past December or January. I like it, just remember to flip the driver’s side linkage, which is in the pop n lock install video.

 

I was waiting for that.. The classic case of baby/toddler dropping juice and milk bottles on the seat. We would never see it until the whole bottle had leaked out and the seat was already stained.

 

Just wait till gummies get dropped and end up under the car seat somehow and it grinds into the seat and in the heat of the summer

Time for some seat covers for sure.

 

This kid of mine LOVES her gummies.. not sure I've ever seen one go to waste so I'm hopeful that's something I wont have to deal with. Yes agreed, seat covers are high on the list. Right behind Method's and a tint

 

I like your line of thinking there.

 

Got out and did some quarantine mall crawling!






Trying to flex the OME suspension properly




Waddya mean the ARB bumper isn't high clearance!?

 

Made a thin lip satoshi grille yesterday and installed it today

 

it’s the return of the rear seat stain mod!!
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/rear-seat-stain-mod.548500/

 

I bought my truck about 3 years ago, had to replace the pop n lock that came on it about 8 months after purchasing the truck. Replacing the latch is super simple. However the latch on the inside is a plastic end piece against a metal switch. Its prone to breaking and not reinforced anywhere. That's the biggest issue with these. My old one snapped right there where the plastic met metal. The tailgate was up, 95 deg day, pulled the handle and snap it broke off. The only way to get the tailgate down was to remove the plastic on the inside of the tailgate. Luckily its just plastic and you can get to the screws with the tailgate up.

I replaced it with another pop n lock and so far so good but I am counting the days till this one gives up too.

 

not today, but...
at the same time everything went south, I went with the woman's family to Florida. I dropped off the truck for some work at the a good local place (Torqd, in Joplin).
oil change, general tune up, a MBRP cat back system, and debadging. no more trd sticker, pinstripe, or tacoma badges. of course it's red so it will take a year or so for the newly uncovered paint to fade to match, but right now it still looks decent, I like the ghosted look that only shows up in the right light at the right angle.

 

Ran out of clearcoat the other day so since it was warmer yesterday i popped by advance and picked up another premium rattle can of the stuff, added another coat to the grill surround, ready for wet sand today to hopefully smooth out the two little paint runs and couple of spots where there’s a couple bubbles etc. you can see one of the runs on the top left of this pic


From 10ft this shit looks like it came from the factory which I’m happy with.
Closer look shows the rock chips and spot where i bumped my arm moving it inside to dry for the night



got a little polish pack of 3m sandpaper for auto pain finishing etc. from advance 1000,1500,2000,2500grit should get it nice and shiny.





Not bad for first time doing a ‘legit’ paint job on something with clearcoat like this.

on a spazzy note, i was going the last part of the grill and had the emblem next to it


and my dumass steps right on the yota emblem, snapping off the bottom clip
No clue if this fix will even hold or if I’ll end up putting a little glue or something when reinstalling

 

Finally ordered some TC bed stiffeners