1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

It's kinda slow but then all Android tablets I've used are like that. Works good otherwise.

 

Haha man you don’t understand how accurate that is. I’ve been inside more 1990’s and 2000’s Buick and Cadillacs than you can even imagine to get horns. This is exactly what the inside of those cars looked like.

 

The Tacoma HU is in a terrible spot. I can’t even use it if the sun is shining because of the glare.

 

I don't even know if I've ever been inside a Buick besides the early 90s Oldsmobile my great grandfather drove around in. Maybe I remembered it better than I thought

 

A service tech that works for the same company I do has a 4Runner with some damage from hitting something that he said make him an offer and come get it. I’m gonna go look at it and possible use it for interior parts for the Tacoma. Also been kinda looking at Runners if I don’t find a Tacoma I want then it’s possible I’ll get one.

 

See thats what Im talking about. You go to a junkyard and look at the dash out of any Toyota model from the early 2000's and they are all vastly different from one another.

Now they all follow this basic design atleast in the center stack. Doesnt vary much.

 

Not much out of a 4Runner interior will swap into a Taco.

Maplight, key light, steering wheel, column trim, some HVAC units are about it. Seats require some mods to fit. Console will fit sorta but the handbrake thing looks weird without doing a lot of work as some here have done.

 

Hear my wife yelling from the porch 'stop stealing my succulents!!', so I run over and turns out she's yelling at a squirrel

 

Honda/Acura got the H/U thing right. They recess them quite a bit in the dash in most of their models. No glare at all.

 

That's hilarious

 

How is your Acura BTW?

 

Sitting at the Toyota collision center here in town. Hopefully they sprayed it today, supposed to be ready for pick up on monday.

Aside from that I love the dang thing. Good power (205 ponies), good looks, and I have room for other people unlike the Taco. And unlike other luxury car brands its cheap to fix if it breaks.

 

Good to hear. The more I work on the Nissan and Tacoma the more I want a daily I leave alone.

I am seriously considering a 2011-ish Crown Vic. Dead simple and plenty of room.

 

The squirrels around here are ballsy. The CA University in Northridge had a problem with squirrels on their campus awhile back getting addicted to nicotine from all the cigarette butts on the ground, they'd start following smokers around and getting aggressive when they wanted a fix

 

Got u all beat

 

Jesus it's even hot as balls at night, that freaking sucks

We have 105 - 110 all weekend and next week, but at least it dips into low 70s at night

 

Its like a giant oven bruh it sucks. Feels like a blow dryer in ur face when u walk out a building

 

Just rub Icy Hot all over your body before you go outside

 

Ultra Gauge MX. Better screen, more tools. Cheaper.

 

I bought it for a few reasons. First being my almost 60 mile roundtrip commute everyday. Ive put 18600 miles on my truck since this time last year. The truck will hold its value more (if I keep it lowish miles) than that Acura in the longrun atleast in my area. So I plan on doing nothing to that car except driving it.

Second reason is that Ive always wanted a "luxury" sports sedan. I like the looks of the 2012ish IS250 and 350 but those cars wouldve been way more expensive to own in the longrun. The 250 suffers from carbon buildup issues and needs a rebuild every 100k, the 350 having reports of water pumps and timing cover gaskets leak. And both suffer from all interior plastics melting if you leave them in the sun for too long.

The Acura TSX shares a similar body style, yet has a more updated interior over similar year Lexus', and mechanically is just a Civic SI so again, stupid cheap and easy to wrench on if needed.

A Crown Vic is a good choice. Boring and unassuming so shouldnt be a big target for theft.