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

Purchased some 5100s and new UCAs . No more spacers . New meat and potatoes soon as well.

 

A couple of years ago

 

Vinyl??? So... a wrap?

An orange peel... if you will?

Is the hood the original color?

 

rearranged my passenger front tire a bit. actually the whole wheel well and front end... Yay! might need a replacement ss3 fog light housing @memario1214 do you sell those?

 

Yeah a vinyl wrap. The hood was wrapped as well but was showing more wear and tear so I peeled it off.

 

those are the old version that came out years ago. The new ones still haven’t been released.

 

Well it looks great. I like the color as well as the flat finish. It would be nice if there was somebody around here that did that kind of work. The wrap on my truck is crap.

 

sweet! might wait until i get the insurance check haha

 

Just put on new tires tonight. Maxxis razr at 35x11.50r17

 

Bed cover for a change

 

Do you have a write up on how you wired your meso third brake light?

 

Hey you have a bad azz truck and you do great work...

Stagger your electrical connections

and use

and the wires will be totally sealed in any environment and it'll totally hide all of those connections

you can see the glue at the end of it

and it'll last for freakin ever.

But I gotta apologize because I'm actually out of adhesive heat shrink otherwise I'd have covered all of them and I gotta apologize for my connections looking like crap but I'm having a hard time twisting wires right now lmao

I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN THERE LOL

 

Picked up and test fit some new wheels/tires. Gonna try these out this summer in the desert and see how the short course tires do.

 

I went for white to minimize radiant heat absorption (from the sun) in the summertime. The wrap's only other function is to protect the neglected paint under a roof rack; I'll be way too lazy to take the rack off twice a year to wash and wax the roof.

No writeup yet, but the idea behind it is fairly simple. Solder together a y-harness (1 wire to 2 wires) until you have enough connections for all your lights. Not a refined approach, but it seems to work well.

*EDIT*
@TheBlueBeast15, here’s a picture of the wiring harness on its own. I used the pigtail connectors included with the KC Cyclones, the plug and wiring cut off the previously-installed cheapo Amazon third brake light, and a good bit of heat shrink.

 

Thanks! The grille was the first mod I did back in 14’. It’s actually an insert, so I had to remove the OEM grille from the frame for this one to be installed properly. I’ve painted it with plastidip, tough guard paint, etc before and it doesn’t look the same as when it’s just chrome.

 

Your truck looks great!!

 

https://mesocustoms.com/collections...e-light-2nd-gen-tacoma?variant=32050404098161

they are out of stock at the moment but I would expect more to come soon

 

Yup, I do the same. It's on for a a bit, then gone for a bit. Nice thing about a soft top...takes a few minutes but it's simple to convert.