What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Yeah, after years living in lots of places I've come to realize there are terrible people, certainly terrible drivers, everywhere but my perception of a population's relative driving skill/quality is directly proportional to population density. Pretty sure this is for two reasons, 1) more people in the same space makes people more likely to make sketchier decisions with less room for error and 2) "Sampling Bias", I only notice the bad drivers so more people means I notice bad drivers more often. Actually figured this out while writing something for a college class I was taking last year. It gave me a whole new perspective on my 3 hour round trip commute. I'm certain that I'll find whole new ways for people to piss me off on the road in Hawaii but hopefully I'll also see less of Mass' worst habits, like stopping the flow of traffic to let somebody out of a driveway or side street, pulling halfway out into the road to stop the flow of traffic until the other lane clears so that they can go, weird late exit line choices (like they are in the right-hand lane, but don't enter the exit until the last moment), starting to left at a light 10 feet before the actual intersection and cutting through the on-coming lane, blowing through a red light 3 seconds after it turned red because the 2 cars in front of them also ran the red light, slamming on the brakes to let slow moving traffic onto the interstate rather than maintaining speed and letting the vehicle merge into the space behind them that the driver was (hopefully) aiming for and causing every traffic jam, and various others.

 

Cabin filter/ Air filter/washer fluid top off and installed the rear shocks from the Eibach stage 1 lift, work continues tomorrow.

 

Sounds like an excuse to buy more goodies. Hehe. I have the v5s and footwells already installed. I just ordered the puddles and just waiting for it to come

 

No problem, I'm here to help.

I'm on the fence we will see.

 

Nice! Are you thinking about doing the emblem overlays and tailgate badge too? He mentioned he could do the 4X4 and SR5 emblems as a custom order. [/QUOTE]


I've got all his topo stuff (quality stuff for sure), except for the SR5 emblems. Great, thanks tacomaworld.....just when you think you're good, they pull ya back in

 

Spent like 8 hours detailing the exterior. Washed, clay bar, polished, glazed, sealant, and waxed. I'll throw some pics later

Oh, and I added a couple of decals; I removed the V6 badge.

 

Rear shocks and AAL installed. I'd like to claim it was as easy as the YouTube video lead me to believe; but, what should have been a few hours turned into an all day affair. Luckily the weather was nice!

 

Looks good. Which AAL did you go with? I'm trying to decide between AAL's and either Bilstein or Fox shocks.

 

Turned over 5000 miles pulling into driveway.

 

Couldn't help myself after taking on too many scratches on the last camping trip.
Picked up a faux-line bumper off of AMZN. Nothing like having your Dremel crapping out halfway through the cut and finishing with an ugly saws-all. It came out fairly well despite that hiccup.



New lights need a proper switch.

 

As I already noted, yesterday installed the RCI transmission skid and cat guards, and while pulling off the oem cat guard I noticed the rust water drain from the frame nut holes. Boy was that disappointing. Then noticed the rust on the bolt and on the oem cat guard. SO today installed this setup, I don't know if its durable enough to last, but it was cheep, probably less than $5.00 for parts. What I haven't figured out is where to rout the drain hose for the permanent fitment. If anyone can locate and post a pic of their A\C drain line routing I would appreciate it. That's a 3/8" to 3/8" elbow, and it slid into the drain stubby thing with one finger, I think a 1/2" would fit as well with a little back and forth motion.

 

Thanks! These are the Icon AAL with the overload spring removed netting ~1 inch of rear lift over stock in my application. I have no qualms with the quality out of the box. We'll see how they perform over time.

 

I like that bumper and those lights. I've been looking at similar lighting but thought the red might be TOO red, but the red appeals to me, do you like it? Same for the bumper, I'm looking at nearly identical bumper from W4P and I'll need to cut just like you did. Great look!!

 

What size is that elbow? I need to do this while I have everything out of there at the moment.

 

Interior lights are Meso dual maps/dome. I leave them on red by default, its invaluable when camping or commuting. It provides light without aggravating my astigmatism or disturbing neighbors. But it's also cool to be able to switch to white if Im working behind the dash or if I drop an earring.

Highly recommend cutting with a Dremel and a thin wheel. Had mine not crapped out I would have had a perfectly straight cut in under 20 minutes. It is way less violent than using a body saw or reciprocating saw.

 

3/8 to 3/8 inches

 

And, simple to access through wheel well.

 

I know. This year it all started with the Footwells along with SS3 pro. Then I was being good until I got the Puddle pods notification and now the V5….it seems like they all tied in well together and the more I tear down the truck the more it gets easier so, why not add more crap while they’re still available?? Just hoping I’m not “sick” or got the mod bug…

 

Lol I know what you mean. I have the ss3 sports but the pros on my 2015 wrx. I just got the SSC2s reverse/running light installed last weekend. It's always something especially looking in the what did you do to your 3rd gen thread. lol

 

Lol. Yup, we’re sick. We also just got a 22’ SR5 premium 4 runner. I’m slowly/moderately messing with it. Got the SEMA wheels and grabber ATX when we ordered it right off the bat…
Now, the wait for my V5…