What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Lots of different ways to do it that work. It's really up to the individual elements that make up the couple that decide which strategy will work best. Both of us have watched money rip relationships apart though, both in personal and in military (especially military) life. We didn't want that stress. We also discuss things like adults, openly and frequently, about financial planning and how both of us are doing. Neither of us are left in the dark about the other's money. We also bought and paid off a house in MA in 3 years (almost to the day), so obviously it also helps that our ends don't just meet, they've got enough slack to be tied up in a bow. That definitely helps. Best relationship I've ever had. Possibly the best I've ever witnessed.

 

Hello, are those Toyota wheels and if not what brand and style are they?

 

Just love the wheels, can you tell me are these FN wheels or what brand are they and the model name, i need to order a set now... Thanks for the information.

 

The gauge used velcro so i just stuck it to dash right in front of stearing wheel. All the guage does is read the vehicles sensors, so as far as accuracy, that is ultimately up the Toyota sensors. You can change backlight intensity and color. Night driving has not been a problem on the mid brightness setting.

 

Do you have a build thread started? I really want to see pictures of that coming together.

 

I found it from @tacos4cheap. It’s been on there over a year and it’s great! No fading or cracking.

 

Good points. Thanks.

Sun rises on the driver’s mirror. Turned heaters on once underway for the mostly WSW, 20 minute drive to work. Possibly more stuff on passenger side.
Mostly curious what others with feature might have noticed. I didn’t “find” the button until a couple of months ago; was just wiping dew off the mirrors.

 

got around to deleting some chrome. no dissembly to the dash. added the glovebox accent to match the exterior.

 

My 3rd Brake Light is going on this morning. Went out to back it in the Garage Bay and it was totally covered in Ice and I mean covered. Guess it rained and froze at the same time. I pounded on the top and it fell off the sides. Looked strange all the big dots of water froze to it. I should try to get a picture of it.

 

here's a couple of comparison pictures of the RAV4 radio knob and AJT radio knob...


picture of the RAV4 radio knob:



and a picture of the new AJT radio knob:

 

Thank you!

 

Yesterday I installed a bakflip mx4 tonneau cover. Here are my initial impressions. First, I think hard tonneaus, in general, are overpriced. $1k for a tonneau seems like a little bit much. I installed a tonneau for security more than anything. I don't expect it to be waterproof. It isn't gonna hurt the gear that I carry in the back of my truck to get a little damp. I do have 2 or 3 gripes about my bakflip mx4.


There shouldn't be any unfinished edges on a $1k product.




That unfinished edge was the easiest one to show you. There are several more. Both of my hands got pretty cut up.

The plastic trim pieces on the corners are fragile. One was broken in shipping or maybe it broke taking it out of the box. Idk, regardless the piece of plastic that attaches it is 1-2 mm thick. I expect they are really easy to break in the cold white north.



One small last thing. The rubber bumpers that the cover rests on when it's folded didn't survive shipping. The 2 sided tape didn't hold.
I guess that's it.
I really like the way that it looks. I dig the low profile look and the matte finish. The instructions were good. Except for the part about whether to install the weather stripping on the bed header behind the cab. It says that if you have a bedliner that you don't need to use it. Tacomas have plastic beds that may as well be bedliners so I expect that we don't need to use it. However, the header rail where the weather seal goes is metal. I tried it both ways. With the weather seal in place the tonneau sticks up and looks funny. Without it the tonneau lays pretty flat. I like it better without.
Overall, I like the cover. As far as the current hard tonneaus go, I think the backflip mx4 is a good one but I don't think I would specially recommend it over any other cover.

 

They are Toyota wheels from the TRD Pro 4Runners. Some call them SEMA wheels.

 

Crap, really? Freezing rain in eastern WA? I thought that only happened in the midwest.

 

3rd Brake Light is on the Softopper now. Not wired in waiting on more parts any day now getting here. Also waiting on my Bed Lights to get here too all coming together nice.

 

This is probably the exact same route I'm going to go this coming spring. Perhaps with the addition of a Decked bed box. Looks good!

 

I installed the EOM bed lights a couple weeks ago, super simple plug-and-play install. It was a great addition now that the topper is on. I was going to work on the third brake light this weekend but my RSG sliders showed up yesterday! Wish there were more hours in the weekend to play with the Taco!

 

Wireless CarPlay module and while it's nice to be untethered so to speak I swear there's a tiny bit of lag - or maybe it's all in my head. Either way so far no big complaints this $90 investment seems to work as claimed.

Wished the cable that came with it was a bit longer I had to rummage through a drawer full of unused cables trying to find a USB C cable had to rely on a Micro USB cable from ages ago hooked up to a USB C cap lol first world problem, I guess.

 

So what pair do you prefer more? I’m thinking of ordering the RAV4 knobs. The stock ones are too small and smooth, I’d like something with some grip.