What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

not_tacomike · Oct 21, 2020

91Bravo said: ↑

Tacoma Raptor Style Grill

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Do you take the plate off or fold it when you go off road?

Aau80 · Oct 21, 2020

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Has anyone tried to hang cargo netting up around their bed rack like this? My goal is to put my dogs back there at night when we’re camping, but not quite sure how I will secure the net. Any advice?

*Zip ties are just to give visual*

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Velcro straps like they use for cords and hoses might work

Cipher94 · Oct 21, 2020

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Velcro straps like they use for cords and hoses might work
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+1 to velcro. I have velcro and zipties

Apollo14 · Oct 21, 2020

Finally solved my MOLLE/Holster setup.

Alien Gear ShapeShifter MOLLE Holster

E.T. · Oct 21, 2020

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Bad day of fishing is better than a good day at work. Don't know who first said it but I concur.
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Either Adam or Eve.

FlywtrJoe · Oct 21, 2020

not_tacomike said: ↑

Sunday there was no-one at either entrance and the cones were blocking off the area. Maybe they are open on select days?

I live about 3 hours south from Pismo and I've never been there so I was not really sure.
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Googled it and here’s the info:
California State Parks on Tuesday announced plans to reopen the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area (SVRA) and Pismo State Beach to vehicle use. The three-phased reopening plan goes into effect starting Friday, Oct. 30, 2020.

RedWings44 · Oct 21, 2020

91Bravo said: ↑

Tacoma Raptor Style Grill

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I like that quite a bit better than the TRD Pro grille. Not something you see EVERYONE do.

RedWings44 · Oct 21, 2020

91Bravo said: ↑

Tacoma TRD Pro Headlights-LED low/high beam/ turn signal/ side marker light
Rigid 360 Series SAE yellow fog light kit

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What LEDs did you go with?

olecoot · Oct 21, 2020

What does it look like if you take the black fender flares off?

Warhawk1938 · Oct 21, 2020

2020 OEM pro grille w/grille badge. The sport grille is at a paint shop getting painted matte black, might swap back once it's done.

meso smoked turn signals

Stripped all the badges and stickers when I bought it about a month ago, and the truck looked a little bare to me on the sides so I ordered a set of black tacoma badges and put them back on lol.

Tailgate stamp from beyondwraps

Tint front windows and windshield band

also have stage 1 tails from tacomabeast/meso and waiting on OEM pro tail lights to get rid of the silver and chrome inside the housing

End of year plans for eibach lift with 17" scs ray 10's wrapped with KO 2's

c2tm · Oct 21, 2020

Went to 88rotors today. My brother (black t4r) and I both had appointments for the same setup.
5100s, 888s, AAL (me), Dirt King UCAs, T4R Pro wheels, and 285/70/17 KO2s
Pretty damn happy so far just need an alignment

TSmoove · Oct 21, 2020

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I run the SS3 Pros in selective yellow. As someone that has tested almost every fog for the Tacoma on the market, that should say something.
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You’re making me want to swap out my Rigid SAE pod fogs now.

Ayeele · Oct 21, 2020

Installed the baja squads

acupunk · Oct 21, 2020

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deaver, believe they were part #U402. They’re the heaviest of the three expedition leaf packs, and that’s a 9” u bolt
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Perfect! I’ll be installing the U402 stage 2 and went with 8.85”. Hoping they sit much like yours!

skanetic · Oct 21, 2020

c2tm said: ↑

Went to 88rotors today. My brother (black t4r) and I both had appointments for the same setup.
5100s, 888s, AAL (me), Dirt King UCAs, T4R Pro wheels, and 285/70/17 KO2s
Pretty damn happy so far just need an alignment
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Gonna be on youtube? haha

skanetic · Oct 21, 2020

Jukeboxx13 said: ↑

YOLO
Derped Ninja Turtle Taco
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Wrap?

TacoLad · Oct 21, 2020

Tried to look like I could afford an TRD model with a faux grill haha. SR5 life.

crashnburn80 · Oct 21, 2020

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You’re making me want to swap out my Rigid SAE pod fogs now.
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I'll admit I am partial to the Rigid SAE's in selective yellow since they were created for me based on my ideas after meeting with Rigid reps, they are excellent lights. If running the white version, the color temp is excessively high. But nothing stacks up to the Diode Dynamics SS3 Pros, the level of engineering design in the product is unmatched by any other LED SAE fog.

pmortiz01 · Oct 22, 2020

Offroad lights mounted on my Blackhorse Rollbar. Still need to get a harness to fully install them. Unfortunately they aren't plug and play so it's probably gonna be a mess to wire them.

dave.h · Oct 22, 2020

Curious if you or anyone else had thoughts on whether this causes the paint on protected areas to discolor at different pace than rest of truck—I had done something similar to front hood for rock chips but a friend advised against bc he’s seem visible differences over time in protected vs not protected Paint (so I took off).

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So normally posts are generally where someone has successfully completed a mod and is proud to announce it to the world. These two that I have completed have been what i would describe the results as mixed...

I decided that installing paint protection film over all four doors would help the paint from inevitable scratches brushy roads. While at the same time i also wanted to install security film on the door windows. The idea being that it dramatically increases the break in time.

Paint Protection Film

Here’s the brand of PPF i used.

If you want to attempt this I’d advise purchasing an installation kit like this:

It doesn’t look like much but you’ll need all of the help you can get

So here’s my advice:

- do no more than one panel at a time (ie: do only the lower part of the door, save the upper part around the windows for another piece
- the curved sections along the corners of the doors are the worst.
- its super important to wash it really, really well and then strip off any wax with dishwashing soap
- Cut the sheets about an inch wider/longer, you will trim/tuck/fold it later
- there’s a backing layer that gets peeled off, spray with a slightly soapy water solution as you peel the backing. Spraying the water allows the PPF to be separated if it sticks to itself
- Spray the solution all over the cleaned panel, then put the PPF on, spray the water on the outside of the PPF as well
- take your time, start smoothing with the blue card in the middle and slowly work your way out
- the idea is to squeegee out all of the air bubbles but realize that you're not going to be perfect...
- It can be peeled off and started over or you can stretch it
- on corners the hair dryer will slightly shrink it but overheating it will mess it up...
- on the bottoms of doors leave it about an eighth of an inch too long and wrap it underneath or between the gap in the panels
- use the hair dryer to activate the glue along the edge where you’re trying to fold it over
- use a towel to dry up the water along the edge
- be careful along your fender edges as dirt accumulated in the fenders will wick up under the wrap
- the bubbles that youmissed can be pricked with a pin to let the water/air out and then can be smoothed down, mostly...

Getting it ready for rough cutting. I found that taping it in place help cut it roughly to size. Notice the wrinkles in the PPF; these smoothed out just fine

Security Film
In theory applying this should have been easier as this material was 3X the thickness, VViViD 4 mil clear safety window film. It actually had stiffness to it. Also i only applied it to flat windows. While applying was indeed much easier the outcome was worse. No matter how may times i washed the window with a clean microfiber cloth. This is what the darkened rear windows looked like:

The darkened rear windows showed it the worst. But even the driver and passenger front windows look like its slightly cloudy or dirty. So far I’ve left them on but may peel it off. I give myself a D on this mod. As much as this hurts me to say, leave this one to the pros.

I have lots more photos of this at: https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/taking-a-tacoma-around-the-world-need-advice.585792/page-46
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