What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

WI, nice. I used to live just a bit north of Waukesha.

 

I like it. Anything’s better than those honeycomb style grills, absolutely hate that overused 40 year old style it’s been on Mustangs, Ford Crown Victoria’s, Audi’s and who knows what else, even when flattened I hate them lol.

 

Lol, as soon as the wife saw the promo shots she fell in love with it. In person it’s a really nice car, it has a pearly fleck in the white and the black. The dangerous part is having two cars that can be moddded!

We did a drive from sea level up and over 6,500ft to Hilo And averaged 41.5mpg. Great little car.

 

Painted up the grille, and added the grille badge from @tacos4cheap! Thanks, great quality and looks GOOD!!

 

Yes, I reached out to him directly. I bought mine back in December, assume he still has them available.

 

What color is that decal on the emblem? Is it from @rrentrop ?
What's you use to paint up the grille? Looks good!

 

Post pics and let us know how you like it. I've been eye balling that for a while.

 

Thank you! Yes, MGM decal from @rrentrop. The OEM finish on the grille started chipping, so I painted with 8 coats of PlastiDip and 1 light coat of Glossifier. Honestly I was hesitant doing it at first, but I like the way it came out!

 

This was extremely exhausting once the sun hit

@RelentlessFab HC rear bumper

 

Except the 234,000 people who have seen this video

 

Meh. There's a YouTube video on how to defeat just about any lock. People who need to resort to thievery generally aren't smart enough to have fashioned just that tool and know how to use it. Do you personally know of anyone who has had their vehicle stolen because someone broke into their Key Safe?

If you've got an absolutely secure system for keeping a vehicle key where it's accessible, I'd love to hear about it.

 

I also designed and printed a steering wheel logo that will get rid of that hideous chrome as well as adding the old toyota logo to it. I dig it.
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Are you making more for sale to TW members?

 

A friend of mine put his spare key in one of those little magnetic boxes and stuck it somewhere under his truck. It disappeared. I laughed.

 

Yep. Had a locksmith tell me that was what you don't want to do. Too many people know to look for those things.

<edit> Following his advice, I found a spot on my last vehicle (Ford Ranger) where I could put a ziploc bag with a vehicle key, house key, credit card, and some cash and hold it in place by taping it over with some black duct tape. You could be staring right at it and not know it was there. I've yet to find a similar spot on our Tacos.

 

Test fitted the wheels, getting ready for the dirty 3s tomorrow

 

You got it. A state trooper suggested that black tape over a wire some where it’s not obvious. Never to use the magnetic boxes, one they fall off, two the thieves know where most people put them

 

Played with it.

https://youtu.be/qoSHqAy_Res

 

Thieves technical enough to steal cars can plausibly learn this attack as well.

Most of the real estate key boxes on the market can be shimmed just as easily (and some don't need a shim - just hold down on the release lever while moving the dials). There are however a few gun boxes without glaring security flaws. Example would be Vaultek LifePod with updated firmware.

 

Hauled my kayak to the lake today to do some bass fishing... first time bass fishing in about 20 years. I seam to remember these fish being bigger.