Colorado B.S. Thread

My daughter texted this, this morning:

I like

 

She is at work in a coastal North Carolina restaurant/bar getting ready to serve these up:

 

Always love when we get a rain base before we drop below freezing and snow hits.

Gonna be a slippery one tonight

 

I'm drinking these out of my leftover coolant/washer bottles at the next meet and greet

 

how are those bald tires doing? Ready for some more FJ wheels in your garage - with good tires?

 

Any recommendations for someone who specializes in audio/alarm installs? Not looking for a Car Toys or Best Buy (pretty sure that’s why this is jacked up). But looking for a small business owner who specializes in this.

The previous bro owner of this truck had every widget installed on this thing, including a Viper remote start, keyless entry and alarm. Best Buy did the install. A week later (on the work order) Best Buy uninstalled the alarm because it was interfering with the remote start. Great. Clearly already install issues.

Flash forward to me owning the truck. I don’t like this technology but more importantly I believe it’s a parasitic drain on the battery. I bought a brand new Northstar AGM battery that is now completely dead after 2 weeks of not driving the truck. I jumped the battery, drove around for 1.5 hours and it never got above 11.5 volts (according to the OBD scanner app).

So I’m looking to get it all uninstalled. Done right. I’d attempt to go at it myself but I am without a garage and most of my tools for probably another month or two. And I don’t even know where to start looking for all the shit components rigged into the wiring.

Any recommendations/help is a appreciated.

 

I really like the Andrew owner of elevated audio.
He started out of his garage he did a great headunit install on the Tacoma..
Fixed some crappy wiring issues for a reasonable price.

I haven’t been to his newer shop, but if I needed anything done that’s where I would go.


https://elevatedaudioinc.com/

 

Thank you Rebecca. Appreciate the first hand experience.

 

Did you do the diode mod to boost your charging voltage a bit for the agm?

 

Can you find the fuse for the offending system and pull it?

 

1st gens don't have the economy voltage limiter issue of the 2nd and 3rd gens. Mine puts out a healthy 14.6 volts.

 

What do you mean? Bald is beautiful

 

Mo powah baybay

 

Quote of the day:

“Is that one of those trucks that can drive under water and then it shoots the water out the top of that thing?”

 

I didn’t.

Largely in part because I have no idea what the diode mod is.

 

I haven’t even began looking at this. My garage is currently a dirt (now mud) pit and my tools are in my GF’s garage 10 miles away.

I know looking for a fuse isn’t a big deal but I really haven’t looked into this because I didn’t know it was an issue until this week.

 

Wow it’s been awhile since I posted in this thread. Said I had 2800 unread messages.

 

If @Wulf would’ve been here, and not on a mandatory hiatus, it would’ve been 5000+

 

AGM BATTERY CHARGING - ALTERNATOR VOLTAGE BOOSTER

I bet given a couple of weekends and some beers, you could handle this one