What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

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Dual battery setup complete, kept blue sea isolator, just didn’t feel like pulling it out. Redarc bcdc install worth it. Prior battery voltage was max at 13.1 now 14.44-14.68. That’s up 100% charge from 70% prior. Next I’ll set up connector for solar panel and run connector to the bed for fridge.

 

Put blackout covers on all the labels and added "TACOMA" 3D letters and put SR5 decals on the rear fenders.

Some before & afters....

 

Deep BMC and SCS 17x9 -38s installed

 

Wow! That looks amazing! Nice work.

 

Thanks, it's really grown on me..

 

I was there instantly as @Bertw192 was describing your work over the weekend. I may have to copy the effort?

 

Molle covers: https://www.bartact.com/products/ba...jCpiTPMVY_ctTWbF6L97tCl79c13BY0BoC6xYQAvD_BwE

Mirror caps: https://www.ebay.com/itm/311961201352

 

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I recently got cut off by a white Camry with WRX STI mud flaps... the bright red ones... front and rear... Did I mention the driver was a shithead?

Yes, yes I did.

 

We used to chop out/in emblems, tilt them, move them to the side, etc etc back in the Mk2 Vw days.. I just figured I could make it different than another Pro grille..

 

More shit I didn't know I needed until now. My wallet is angry at you

 

That sounds like fun.

Move the Pro grille flush with the surround and I'd be interested. Haha!

 

Do they make a mask of some sort to black out the Tacoma on the front doors? Or is that a remove the Crome and replace it with a black ?

 

Yep. Definitely wasn't expecting to see that. If it was just a couple small scratches, I could live with that. Mostly. But holy cow!

Or blind person.

I did buy her used at one of those small, independent dealers. Which they prob bought the truck at auction.

As far as another moron goes, the black covers were a little faded. Truck is a 2016. I really think this was done at the factory.

If it was, looked damned good when they reapplied it. But still think it was done at factory. But Lord only knows.

I certainly wasn't expecting to see it but here I am. Deed is done. I was really just wanting all the blue to show. But gotta spend $$$ to recover.

As said in my original post: beware.

 

I plan on doing the same thing. How did you mount the BCDC and wire it with the Blue-Sea? Did you wire the in-cab switch?

 

yes I did mount the in cab switch, the bcdc is wired after the blue sea, comes off of left stud of blue sea to a 40amp fuse to the red of bcdc then brown to another 40amp fuse to the positive of aux battery. So positive circuit goes from main battery to blue sea out blue sea to redarc red, redarc brown to aux battery. There is a diagram somewhere which shows bcdc wired through isolator to enable emergency jump by connecting aux and main in a moment of need.

 

The bcdc is mounted using the universal bracket from redarc which I connected to the kit from off-road engineering.

 

Does the color/finish match the bottom part of the mirrors? The part you linked says "black color to match"

 

I meant off grid engineering

https://www.**************/collections/complete-dual-battery-systems

 

Awesome, thanks for the info!

 

looking great