What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

I have a topper (shell) which has a third brake light making the OEM third brakelight useless and unsightly. As most may know, the bulbs are a royal pain to access, so I ordered a small roll of 3M vinyl wrap from Amazon to mitigate the amount of light it puts out. I wrapped it today, and am super happy with how it came out. I did it in about 15 minutes and it was super easy. Obviously it's not perfect, but I wasn't going for that due to the location and no one is going to see it close up. Works well and figured some here might be keen on the idea.

 

Installed the Subaru tweeters. Not sure that I can hear a huge difference in sound, but there is an improvement. Much better build quality than the stock ones though. The exciting part was my boss, oops I mean wife, let me out for 30 minutes while the sun was still up to play with the truck and I didn’t even do anything exciting enough to take a pic of.

 

That’s her way of saying Happy Valentine’s Day.

 

Well - in California, that's end of the world weather. Once it hits 39 - people panic and start praying to God for deliverance from evil.

 

This was Sunday here in Mississippi

 

That was me. Because of all days, it resurfaced (in the frigid temps). I don't have a Pedal Commander on anymore. But did disconnect negative terminal, and it self corrected until next time. Gonna probably get a scanner to clear any errors codes.

I drove it around earlier in afternoon with no issues. Cranked up, shifted, and went on about my merry way.

C'est la vie.

On another note, since we're posting temps from WTForecast, early readings this morn:

 

Been a while since I posted, so here is everything I have done within the last 6 months.

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Oem LED headlights.
Demon Brackets with Red Shackles


Added some extra weather strip foam to the skewp.
Noticed that water would pool up under the scoop and eat away at the paint, so added weather stripping to prevent water from getting in.


Cleaned the bed, to prepare for the new Powertrax XR One bed cover.



Installed some XPEL paint protection film on the tailgate spoiler lip.
Protects it against scratches and gives a nice place to grip when closing the tailgate.


Powertrax XR One, got it at half the price.


Faux TRD Skidplate


Door striker and limiter hinge cover.


OEM Passenger side floor mat locks

Passenger side smart door handle with @Accessorides harness and Lexus Wallet Card key.




Door Bowl Lights (Ice Blue)


Added open ended speaker baffles to my Kickers speakers to protect it from the elements and help direct sound.
Also tidied up the wires and some egg crate closed cell foam for the back wave from the speakers.



Had to trim the from door card trim just a little, because the Kickers CS speakers have this extra lip that interferes.


Changed out the plastic oil filter cover with the OEM metal cover.
Changed my oil filter too, to a TRD oil filter i had laying around



Install a Fumoto oil drain valve (

$37 F133N with LC-10 F-Series Large Body Fumoto Valve with Long Nipple and LC-10 Lever Clip for M12-1.25, Gold

F133N)
and a TRD engine oil cap, cause that is a +20 hp. No pics of them installed though.



TRD Pro Suspension (Added XPEL to the stickers for protection, also had a lot of time on my hands), Single AAL and @Wheeler's Off-Road Inc U bolt flip kit with front and rear Superbump stops.


aFe power twisted metal y pipes.


aFe Twisted Metal YPipes, Borla ProXS to Dual Exit Resonated Exhaust Tips.


Driver Side Grab handle


@MESO dual color ultimate dome lights.


Mini Bed Rail Tie downs, since the regular bed cleats did not fit under my Retrax bed cover.


Added STP Noise block, a type of thin MLV, as a third later of sound deadening to the rear of the cab.
Wanted to cover more, but was too lazy to fully take apart the cab again...


Cleaned her up.


Strolled with a local Tacoma group.



Taco 2021 New Year Sunrise



Went to church.


Chased some rainbows.



Some quality time viewing the sunset.


And many more mods to come

 

I was definitely not speaking bad or bashing the company, I was merely trying to shed light on an issue that, at the time was recently discovered. And perhaps was shipped before updated instructions went with it. Isn’t that the purpose of a forum, to share information?

Bringing up a post from 3 months and 10,000+ posts ago to accuse me of bashing the company is a little crazy. Especially since I haven’t brought it up since November.

 

Hafa adai

 

Hafa Adai!

 

Nice nature pics

 

Thanks, weather has been great recently.

 

I finally made time to install the OEM roof racks...

 

Nicely done. I didn't see it in the video, did you seal the back side as well to prevent water intrusion to the wood as well?

 

Yellow is better that white for fog, rain and snow. The yellow doesn't reflect back like the white does in the fog. Yellow is good, amber (more orange like) is better.

The downfall with these at they are a general flood light style light. A true fog pattern is typically a wide flat beam lower to the pavement, putting the light were you need it most.

 

If he hadn't asked a question, myself and possibly others, wouldn't know the issue was resolved. Costing the supplier potential sales. This is a place where those of who don't know stuff come to learn. The only dumb question is the one not asked.

 

Here are a couple options where depending on your shipping one or the other may be cheaper. Just to be clear the mirrors are un painted black plastic. I don't want you to think they are painted in gloss black.

Caps-

$60 1A Auto 1AMRK00061 (2 Piece) Black Paint to Match Door Mirror Cap

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07XVF3YNM/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8

Better Price--1amrk00061

 

Great Job!!

 

Musta been Northern Mississippi.