What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Bigger problem would be if it accidentally reactivated, anyone could unlock your truck simply by touching the door handle. If you have keyless entry that is.

 

What bracket is that for the antenna ?

 

https://www.leitnerdesigns.com/collections/accessories/products/antenna-bracket

You will have to use different mounting hardware. I used some spare parts from my roof rack

 

got a head start on worlds most ridiculous bed lighting system

started with welding the bolt-together seam on the ebay molle panels. bolts are overrated.


got lucky, and the mounting clips actually hold the tape light channel firmly to the back of the molle panel! still gonna back up the clips with some epoxy to be sure though


and a quick mockup with cob led tape and smoked cover. should sit just barely proud of the molle panel and will be nearly invisible once installed.

 

Yeah, removing the battery makes it foolproof. It also keeps the battery from discharging and potentially leaking inside the fob as pointed out by the OP @iLLFadedBowl.

 

That and the new style of thief that use devices to scan for fob signals and are able to unlock cars, start them, and drive off. Although I may or may not have a gps tracker in case the truck is stolen.

 

The spare key in the fob can be used to open the case also.

Not my video, but here's how you do it ...
https://youtu.be/ACtFspiEjOk

 

Love the DB tonneau cover, RR, and brackets on the DB cover.

Looks very versatile and handsome of course!

 

Looks great! I’ve been thinking of getting a GMRS, what one do you have?

 

All last night until 4am I did: Front locker/diff in, changed both diff fluids, motor oil, tcase oil, changed rear driveline, wired up front locker, and took it wheeling today and beat the piss outta it.

Ouch

 

Looks and sounds like a lot of work and fun!

 

$160 Midland MXT275 MicroMobile® GMRS Radio – 15 watts Two-Way Radio with Integrated Control Microphone – Overland Caravanning Tractors – Detachable External Magnetic Mount Antenna - 8 Repeater Channels

Midland MXT275, love it.

 

Approved

 

Wait, wait, wait. How are these trucks not perfect? All these flaws enable us in to these little fixes, personalization, and this forum. This place would really be some sort of intergalactic circle jerk if no one replaced or added anything to these trucks and told each other how it went and what they did wrong, what to do next time all while photo documenting it all.

 

tHE KEY IN THE FOB CAN BE USED TO OPEN THE DOOR. nO fob NECESSARY.

 

The key opens the door?

 

Mine came with a regular spare key too. The FOB remains in the truck turned off. No need to keep the FOB in a hide-a-key. Just keep the extra key in the hide-a-key.

 

Slowly getting the build done.

 

And that's fair. There are some things though that still baffle me, especially since they are either not easy to fix with bolt-ons, or not able to be fixed at all, or things that are glaringly obvious (literally in the case of tag lights). How about a shark fin antenna that is 3 inches taller than it needs to be and directly interferes with mounting things to the roof or, in my case, dents the roof when the tonneau cover catches wind? How about a maintenance schedule feature with 15 different timers that have to be reset manually one at a time? Drum brakes, in the 2020's? Manual Transmission can't have keyless start (not to be confused with remote start, they are different)? Automatics with keyless start don't have a manual key bypass? A wireless charger that can't keep up with a phone using GPS (I'm using Wireless Android Auto, and the pad can't keep up)? Driveshaft bolts that have to be re-torqued every 10K miles? Red turn signals? That one is just a personal pet peeve, and especially annoying when the 2nd Gen had the correct color turn signals from the factory. I'm certain I'm forgetting plenty of items, but those are just off the top of my head.

EDIT: and a half-assed tune from the factory that seems to keep switching back and forth from Regular to Atkinson at the low RPM I like to stay in since I've got some decent torque to work with. At least that's the only reason I can come up with for the power output fluctuations I feel tooling around town. Oh, and no setting for changing the default version of Cruise Control you want to use and no way to permanently disable AEB without Entune.

 

I was just letting the other poster know that the little multi tool isn't needed.

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