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

I did a lot of meditative breathing before doing my outer ones. One cut and done. Came out pretty good I think for me doing it myself.

 

I'm contemplating a couple options to replace the fender with some kind of barrier. In short, I think you have to accept a couple things going fenderless. You have to reroute the intake somehow. See my above post about the K&N filter. Supposed to get 50k miles before cleaning and I should have cleaned line after 1000 it appears. Replacing an air filter or cleaning the K&N that frequently is ludicrous. Also, you're gonna get way more mud in the engine bay and fender recesses and rear bumper. A thorough spray out of all crevices after every trip on wet dirt roads is recommended to prevent rust. On dry roads, I've recently noticed more dust coming in the cab. I think the front tires throw dust right into the upper corners of the front fenders near the doors and is working it's way in there. I also feel like my bed gets dustier now. All in all, I'm ok with it but annoyed enough that I'm gonna look at some options to fix it. In the early stages of that.

 

Yeah but you asked about the liner correct? Or did I misunderstand? I cut the fender and parts of the finder liner

 

I did the air intake cowl reroute first so I'm good there, but everything else you described is what I was interested in. This link may help you in your search for a solution for liners post fender trimming, well if you kept tabs or could add some back that is. Let me know what you come up with and good luck.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/fend-x-wheel-liners.557515/#post-18196717

 

If you trim the fenders you loose you liner attachment points on the fender, unless you cut tabs where they connect and bend them back up or do something similar. I cut tabs and bent them up, but the OEM liner doesn't fit well and I got it zip tied for now. What did you do? This is the best photo I got right now, if you zoom in you can see some the inner fender tabs I cut and bent ro reattach the liner with zip ties for now.


Edit: did you just cut a bit of your fender down near the cab mount maybe? I was thinking you cut an entire 1-2" off the entire length of your fenders.

 

That’s sweet! Did you make that set up yourself?

 

Yeah thats where the miscommunication was. I trimmed the corners down, not along the whole fender. However in those corners I cut out the tabs for the fender liner

 

Not today but started working on the car 2 weeks ago and finally finished today (USPS has been really slow on shipping). I added a Hooke roof rack, oem lug nut lock, TRD leather shift knob, Clazzio leather seats, Husky WeatherBeaters floor mats and finally added a 2019 navi radio w/ hondo knobs modded to fit in a 2nd gen. Thanks to @Twizted for the radio bezel.

 

My write up with pics:
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/what-to-know-about-pulling-your-fender-liners.679449/

 

You're not wrong about that.

Warranties are specifically designed to end right as failure rates start to increase. It's based on tons of life cycle and failure rate analysis and reliability engineering, along with cost analysis for implementing the warranty.

Companies sell/offer warranties because it makes them money, not because it saves the consumer money. If a company sells you a warranty, they sell it with the expectation that your cost to repair in the warranty period will be less than the price you paid for the warranty. And the way warranties are designed basically guarantees that. People who don't offset the cost of their warranty with repairs essentially subsidize the few people that do have repair costs greater than the price of the warranty. In big picture, warranties benefit those selling them, not those buying them.

For electronic systems (e.g. a stereo), you might as well throw your money in the trash before buying a warranty. Reliability and lifecycles are very well understood for electronic components, and that directly translates into warranty terms stacked against the consumer.

Mechanical systems are more complex with respect to reliability and you might have a better chance at getting your money's worth out of a warranty. But again, they wouldn't sell it if it didn't make them money.

 

Gotcha! Just tinted OEM ones then?

 

https://www.lowrangeoffroad.com/toy...-toyota-tacoma-body-mount-relocation-kit.html

 

Wasn't able to do my doors yesterday (power mirror install/sound deaden).
I do have my center console in my house so I checked to see if the 1' mic extension cord will work for my CB install. It wont, it's way too short.
I ended up buying a 3' extension cord and it will be here Monday.
Think I'll do my doors on Saturday instead.

 

Except HF warranties. Those things are meant to get you a new piece of equipment at the end of the warranty period, and a new warranty. Just ask me how I, and my welder, knows this tidbit.

 

were the Red, orange, yellow stripes an original Toyota thing? Were those the original colors?

 

They're from the Ivan Stewart race trucks

 

Appreciate the input. Not sure if I'm brave enough to glue it in, but I need to do something.

 

100% correct. They wouldn't sell it if they were not making money off of it!

I read an article a few years back that said Best Buy made more money that fiscal year selling extended warranties than products.

The other part of it is this society where people live week to week and cannot afford a repair.

I bought the most reliable truck on the road, WTF do I need a warranty. LoL

 

What are you gonna do with your stock rear bumper? Lol. I need a good used one.