What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Hopefully today I’ll get a chance to switch out the oem license plate lights with the Morimoto parts. These look to be well made.

 

They are very nice!

 

Keeps the tail gaters away too.

 

Added the header rail from the black friday sales and mounted my recovery boards onto it. Pretty happy with how compact it is instead of laying on the bed. Now I gotta figure out if I wanna run something on the other bed rail that doesnt have a shovel and hatchet mounted since I got 3 more of those T slot brackets

 

Speaking of header rail. Anyone have the part number for one of those black bolts that holds them on?

 

Oh jeez, no clue. I'd just take one off and go to a hardware store and try to find its cousin if you cant find its twin. T30 bolts should be pretty ubiquitous.

 

Garmin for example had parking mode built into their cameras but need their harness to provide the power while the vehicle is off. They have two types; one that requires it to be tapped into the fuse panel with an add a fuse and the newest one they have plugs directly into the OBD plug and provides two usb female plugs so that one can run two cameras. Use their newest one and have a front and rear camera and they work flawlessly.

I have the 67W for front and their Mini 2 for the rear with the OBD adapter for parking mode power. The USB cables that come with the cameras are long enough for front and the rear.

Here's a pic of my front camera, I don't have one of my rear camera yet but could later today.

 

Is the hitch light worth it?

 

I'm curious. Is there any glare in the backup camera when you throw it into reverse at night?

 

I have the DIR harness so they switch off when I put it in reverse: https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/license-plate-light-disable-while-in-reverse-dir.707546/

 

I think it was. I would like to see one that uses the DD SSC1 though because I’ve been happier with the performance of my DD lights.

 

Oh, damn. Didn't know that existed. Neat! One more way to sink money into the truck I just bought.

 

Yeah and they are cheaper for the PRO version by about 20 dollars

 

It's an awesome mod.

Another guy makes a lower tech light shroud you can slap on them too.

 

yeah, thanks for explaining that. I couldn’t tell the difference between the wiring kits.

 

Was just looking at upgrading to the Garmin from the Roav C2 Pro I've been running for years.

My only motivation for upgrade being that picture quality is likely much better now than it was just a couple years ago.

 

Target fixation.

 

Thanks to @THEPYRITETACO for the switch. Super easy install and vast improvement from the push button that came with the light bar.