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

I see you have a seatbelt cheater.
Here's an easier way to disable the seatbelt chime.

1) Turn the Car 'ON', but do not start the engine (Leave your foot off the brake). Cycle your trip reset knob until it reads ODO. Turn the ignition back off. Wait a couple of seconds.
2) Make sure seat belt is not fastened
3) Turn the ignition back on, do not start the car (Leave you foot off the break) As soon as you see everything light up, press and hold the trip reset knob and do a long 12 second count.
4) Keep your finger on the trip reset knob. Fasten your seat belt, as soon as you fasten your seat belt, you should see the ODO display go from XXXX miles to "b-on". At that time take your finger off the trip reset knob and press it again. It should cycle to "b-off". You should be all set and turn the ignition off and unfasten your seat belt.

If you disconnect the battery, the setting resets but it's really easy. I do it all the time.

 

I only ran my fridge and Jackery once last year (Got them at the end of the season) But I put my Iceco fridge in my back seat and jackery on the floor and ran the 12v cable for the jackery to my front socket so it charges when I have the truck on. I don't think my Jackery 500 ever dropped down below 90% the whole 5 days we were out there. We did do a lot of driving but still sitting over 12 hours overnight it didn't dip much.
Side note. Anyone with a Jackery have issues with it shutting the 12v off after so long? Twice on that trip I woke up to the Jackery and fridge off. It was a cold week so it didn't make a difference or it was only off for a short amount of time but anyone else have this happen? I was guessing it was from the fridge just not drawing enough power to keep it on.

 

jumped the plug on the relay to a power source. Used a spade connector and snipped off one of the prongs to make it fit.

 

The Jackery automatically shuts off if the draw is under 10w for a certain amount of time, think its 4 hours? Its possible due to the cold your fridge didn't need to run and the Jackery auto shut off. Haven't encountered this yet with mine but haven't had a chance to run it this winter.

 

When you do keep an eye on it. Like I said it didn't make a difference it was in the 30s or lower over night when that happened. Fridge was still cold as it should have been when I turned it on but if you forget to turn it back on could cause some issues.

 

That is the way I would go aluminum in front and steel in the back

 

how do you like them tires. I was going to go that route but I drive around 25k miles a year

 

Wait. The bumper doesnt have a recovery point?

 

Nope, ARB front bumpers don’t have one integrated.

 

Been researching bed stiffeners. Just Googled "tacoma bed stiffener" and some off brands came up on Amazon, such as:

$67 Hooke Road Tacoma Bed Channel Stiffener Support Brackets Compatible with Toyota Tacoma 05-23 2nd & 3rd Gen Pickup Truck - Pair

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087CVZ7C...c4c-4a2b-8a7c-8e027b1309d7&smid=AYN5BTMAOQ08E

ENIXWILL Rear Bed Channel Stiffeners Fit for Toyota Tacoma 2005-2021 Bed Stiffener

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08M15PBP...&pd_rd_r=1bbae47a-69f6-4adc-a30f-d758329a769f

StarONE Truck Bed Channel Stiffeners Fit for 2005-2021 Toyota Tacoma

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08M3KRL5...&pd_rd_r=980bf813-edb3-430d-9bbc-0918e5d3d0a3

and more.

These are all $89. Any reason to not go with something like these over the more well know TW vendors? By reason, I mean are these stolen designs from a more legit vendor or is the metal too thin, etc.

 

I prefer to support TW venders over others—-especially Amazon. Just my 2 cents. Also, Amazon is not always the cheapest place to buy anything.

 

The only name I recognized on the Amazon list was Hooke Off-road. I've also been looking at ATH, Leitner (sp?), Rago, TotalChoas and CaliRaised. I'm all for supporting TW vendors but there is a 40% price different in the next cheapest option. If that's just pure price difference then that's pretty significant. If that's price difference due to stolen R&D, shoddy craftmanship, thin metal, etc. then I can see a reason for the higher priced options.

 

This was my order from victory 4x4 back on 6/2019


VT23-BST-PC Tacoma Bed Stiffeners | 2nd & 3rd Gen (05+) 1 $119.00
Shipping: Free Shipping:
5SALE:
Sales Tax:
Total:
Payment: MasterCard:
$0.00
($5.95)
$0.00
$113.05

 

Right on, thanks. That thread slipped through my fingers. Never saw it lol

 

debadged and destickered! Need to get that topper painted soon.

 

Ok cool, I'll look into it. Thanks

 

Whered you send them?

 

Thanks for that. They have only increased price slightly to $119 plus tax since your 2019 order. It's too bad, their name doesn't get thrown around too much in the bed stiffener discussions from what I've seen. Biggest difference I can see is 5/32 vs 3/16 steel between the two, AND the Victory4x4 don't intrude out vertically into the bed as much as the Hooke Off-road ones.

 

I've seen these and considered it. They mount to the existing mirror right?

 

My fridge came with a remote that screams at me if the fridge looses power. Should help with determining if the Jackery cuts out. Im guessing because it was so cold your fridge wasnt running and therefore the Jackery shut down from not being used. Ill keep you posted though on my results.