What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

I have an ‘18 TRD Sport, automatic. Driver’s door has the proximity sensor that opens when I grab the door handle. I too open the pass door for my bride and lack of that feature on her side was a bummer. A guy on here changed his pass door handle to have the prox sensor. Turns out it’s the same as drivers side rotated 180 and he posted all the details about connectors and cabling including where to tap the “brain”.

EDIT: https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/passenger-door-smart-key-system.545524/

All that said, wondering if you can add the keyed portion of the door handle to the pass side for those not having the prox feature.

 

Hmm, maybe. Would be a useful nugget of knowledge for the TW Hive-Mind.

Also... you lucky bastards with your keyless entry and keyless start. I still wouldn't trade my MT for it though. Rowing my own gears is more fun than not having keyless start is annoying. I'll just keep venting about it until the bean counters at Toyota hear me and add the option... or more likely kill the MT entirely.

 

NOOOOOOOOO...



edit> Not outside the realm of possibility... Killing the internal combustion engine.

 

I understand the safety concerns of not having the keyless start, which you think they would be able to engineer it so you could only use it with the brake and clutch engaged while in neutral maybe. But the keyless entry should be there on any TRD model regardless of transmission type.

 

Sweet! I have the same setup, except for the cat wings. Do you just drill the holes on the side of the transmission skid? TIA

 

Totally agree with the second comment. To the first, there's a lot of manual vehicles that have push button start. The only difference is that clutch start cancel button. Frankly I'd happily give up CSC for keyless start. Unfortunately it isn't a mod that can be added without doing some shady shit to the wiring of the truck with third party hardware with questionable quality.

 

White Knuckle offroad sliders. They said 6-8 weeks but it was only 5!! It's great to support a small So Cal based business.
https://white-knuckleoffroad.com/



ARB recovery point
1 of the nut/bolt combinations did not thread properly. Contacted ARB and had replacements within 2-3 days. This thing is super beefy and pricy but I view it as a buy once cry once kind of an item.

 

The transmission skid comes with the pre-drilled holes now that align with the wings.

 

Added some knob covers.


There's an open cut in the ring that lets the indicator light shine though on the fan, temp, and mode; the 4x4 is solid. The cuts were a little sharp, so I rounded them with a jewelry file.

And for those who worry about chrome, you can mod them to black chrome.

$14 Thor-Ind Air Conditioner AC Switch Audio CD Button Knob Cover Trim Compatible with Toyota Tacoma 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 (B-Uncover Indicator, Black)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09MQ6B46V?ie=UTF8&th=1

 

They just slip over (press fit) the knobs? No adhesive or anything?

 

For me, the knob covers just slipped on and stayed, and I didn't have to force them. They come with a strip of double sided tape so if they're too lose, you could secure them that way. Some folks on here have said they were a tight fit, so I'm guessing the diameters vary a bit from batch to batch.

 

Did you go with the whole kit? Aluminum or steel. I have been lurking on there website and have stuff in my cart.

 

Hey, what’s a CD?

 

Abysmally low interest paying instrument.

 

That thing people used before Spotify.

 

Aluminum, I don't do any major rock crawling with my truck, just hunting and fishing in the CO back-country. I just put on the engine and transmission skid with the cat guards.

 

When I was a kid, my dads car had an 8 track player in it. I thought it was really cool but he hated it.

 

I don't remember ever having an 8 track, but maybe when I was tiny. I did use cassettes until was about 10 though. CD's were a good upgrade, but the moment I got an iPod was a game changer. Now Spotify has removed the iPod from my center console.

 

We had an 8 track-cassette adapter. But I remember my first Walkman, CDs were a pain in the ass, more money, and they scratched too easily, but at least you could skip and such. and then the book of 72 was like a lead weight on your lap. Thank you Spotify.

 

they look good! I def need some in mine. What website did you end up going thru?