What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Anyone have part numbers on touch up paint? tail light is already ordered

 

Where you get the carbon wrap?

 

Duplicolor Exact Match. Local auto parts store, Amazon.
Google the Duplicolor site and you will find the information you need.

 

Yeah the dealer went in and did the interior protection stuff and that was that. I have a microfiber but it does not seem to matter!

 

Yeah, I was stiff this morning trying to get out of bed. My sinuses were burning pretty good last night from the smoke too.

She knows that I help people, I dont look at the danger, I will charge right in. It scares her sometimes, but she knows that its something that I do.

 

Took a couple money shots. Too bad my phone's camera sucks.

 

I'm happy to see your progress with the valvetrain project. kinda hard to follow since I'm not in this thread daily. anyway, would enjoy seeing at least one more report when all is done and you have impressions to share. I'm still looking at this vs. TTs down the line. i prefer a good NA motor to anything FI even if the power is much less. good luck.

 

When I figure that one out Im gonna retire. I 'borrowed' a make up brush from my wife and start with the while I have the vacuum on sucking up the dust. Then use the softest microfiber towel I have.

 

This is what I use when I dry the truck. Great for blowing out all the hidden water behind the badges and cracks and door handles

 

Seems like anyone that makes die-cut decals should be able to make an overlay out of clear screen protector material. I could be wrong.

Hold on, I'll summon Rich (TVDvinyldecals)...

@rrentrop ! Care to weigh in on this, please?

 

Quote was just for e locker.

 

Well we are probably both using a Sable brush. Beyond that for obvious reasons I'm not going to make comparisons except to say that we use opposing forces to get rid of the dust.
Both accomplish the same task.

 

1st world problem about a 3rd Gen Tacoma!

So I had a Bilstein 6612/5160 installed this week. I can't say enough about it, it smoothed out the ride, gave me the height that I wanted, and later this summer will get broken in out west when I take it to South Dakota.

But the problem I had was when I washed the car today and tried to put panty-remover* on it, I discovered I could no longer reach the middle back portion of the hood.

*Panty-remover is Turtle Wax Hybrid Ceramic wax. This stuff is so easy to use and glossy that women will throw their underwear at your truck when you drive by them!

How awesome is that? The truck is now too tall for me to wax it....good times!

I also added a TRD skid plate while the truck was up on a lift, I think it looks awesome on a silver truck.

Anyway, I took a couple of pictures.

Height

TRD skid plate

Panty-remover

 

On today's episode, more MESO and a dash cam! No more vent chrome, now need to get rid of the push button and 4wd selector chrome. The Dongar adapter for the dash cam is great, you barely even know the camera is there.

 

Tempered glass would be the way to go.
There's a whole new marketing concept for someone out there. Wish I knew how to go about it, if I did I'd probably end up on shark tank!

 

I got the letters from my wife for my birthday. Super easy, inexpensive, and drastic improvement.

 

I got the Dupli -Color Super White at Advance Auto - had it in stock on the shelf - $16.99 - paint on one end, clear coat on the other.

 

Added a matte black hood wrap.

 

Looks awesome!!

 

Installed my 3rd brake light plug. Now I dont have a random wire hanging out when I have my soft top down.