What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

Dent be gone! Impressed how well they pulled it out.

 

Wow, that came out great

 

PDR is a wonderful thing

 

OSRAM is sylvania now

 

What’s PDR?

 

Paintless Dent Repair

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=1fc5Sc6Kh1Y

This was a couple weeks ago. But it's that time of year. Especially THIS year... there are a lot of people that could use some help. If you can, I implore you, find an event on Facebook, or Instagram, or a local club... help your fellow members of your community.

 

How much do they charge for something like that? I've got a drivers door that needs some attention.

 

$300. Seemed expensive to me but it was constantly glaring at me and my brother was driving it when he side swiped an elk and roached that side of the truck. That said after seeing the results worth it to me. Trying to decide if I should paint the whole truck or just leave it original now.

 

Not too bad. Now that I look again, this might be beyond pdr

 

You'd be surprised. I replaced my entire door but I suspect they could have gotten it pretty straight as well.

 

Anyone know what toyota uses to line the inside if the fenders?

 

Anyone have tailgate cable replacement recommendations? Mine have been on their way out for a while and finally one exploded in a cloud of rust the other day. Saw some Dorman ones on Amazon, but am open to suggestions before I buy.

 

Heads up, A 2001/2002 ABS module is a different module than 2003+. I was unable to find any junk yard ABS modules to replace mine at the time. I needed to get the ABS light off in order to pass my states inspection process for the truck to be considered "road worthy/safe". I ended up needing to remove the module and send it out for repair to some place in Arizona/Nevada area. Was significantly cheaper than buying brand new, not that I could even find a brand new one anyway....

Good luck.

 

Good cause, we do similar down here, but not a 4x4 group. It'd be cool to start one, but it would be more of a bro dozer crowd lol.

Some interesting irony in the video though...

 

I picked some up from Napa the other day.. fit great

 

4x4 In Motion has been around for 30 years now. They are mostly Jeeps, but they are specifically not a "Jeep club."

They welcome anyone who wants to get their vehicle dirty on the trail. Jeeps, Raptors, Rangers, FJs, 4runners, Land Cruisers, Tacomas... doesn't matter.

 

Seems like that was a little loose.

Sort of. Only in the US I think, and the OSRAM products that are the ones in the headlight upgrade are not available from Sylvania (but are still available from OSRAM in Europe). Just ordered 4 of the OSRAM 90/100W myself. All the Sylvania stuff has blue tinting on the lights. Eww.

 

Made a little more progress this evening.




Letting everything cure tonight... then sand the wood filler and paint with this.




Also ordered vinyl to replace the carpet.

 

Box looks good! I'd strongly just advise to carpet it. It'll look much nicer. That herculiner will be super rough.