What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Installed this morning some new Morimoto 16-21 Tacoma XB LED “sequential” Mirror Lights I purchased during their Memorial Day weekend sale.

I have been using the MESO customs smoke led mirror lights since late 2018. They work just fine and will be back-ups just in case.

If you watch the two videos I provided you shall see the difference between the two products.

Top is Morimoto and bottom is MESO customs for static reference:


MESO customs in action:
https://vimeo.com/559396546

Morimoto’s in action:
https://vimeo.com/559397415

 

KDMAX tune from Chris @wahoobie at his tuning event in Glen Allen, VA! This tune is awesome @PapaRee and @TWTaco! The truck is so much more responsive and fun to drive. Great job on this tune!

 

Thanks Dan glad to hear how happy you are with the tune and how much better your truck drives! Enjoy it Dan!

 

Installed @TMCmakes Wheel Deal

 

Added topline steps. Also got the first of many scratches in the bed loading up my brothers bike.

 

I like that they have a top cap, that was my biggest complaint with my TC UCAs that I had when I lived in Colorado, the mag-chloride they spray on the roads just dissolves the teflon liner in the uniballs. I got 20k miles out of the firsts set before they had to be replaced. I wished they had top caps to keep junk from sitting up there. Looks like a pretty solid design, like you said, overkill for sure but, a great looking part.

 

How did you notice the wetness, from smell or did you actually see the water coming in? Now I'm going to be all paranoid

 

I like these better than my meso ones. Much brighter. I’m just curious if the MXB takes cake of hyper flashing. The meso ones took care of that for my truck with Total Tails? Which varies…

 

It was discovered while I was doing the audio install. I saw some condensation on the sound deadening material.. I got suspicious and placed some paper towels down and it rained during that night.

 

Don’t spill gas on your bed mat...

 

Damn. I would have assumed they were chemical resistant.

 

Yea, good to know.

 

Did the same thing to mine about two years ago. Cleaned it with purple power and wiped it down with Chemical Guys VRP and it was good as new.

 

Installed the third brake light on my softtopper.

 

Installed the TRD skid plate and air box I got with the memori day sales that were going on.

 

Rear diff fluid

 

Yep, I was going to suggest something similar like Adams tire and rubber cleaner with maybe mother's back to black, but I think the degreaser would work better.

 

To be honest the performance was only part of my decision. Longevity was a factor as well. Not confident the 3.5, in its current built form, will provide 200k + miles of bulletproof durability like the 4.0. I may be wrong. I hope I am. I felt better getting all of my purchase money back and letting someone else take the gamble. I figure there is a good reason Toyota still uses the 4.0 in the 4runner. I do have the confidence in the 2.7 but never drove a 3rd gen with one.

 

Finally washed the truck and got the front windows tinted today

 

On his Reddit he says he made it himself