Wisconsin Tacomas and bad financial advice

In Missouri there are several levels of truck plates based on gross vehicle weight rating. Then there are passenger car plates.

However, you can put vanity plates on damn near anything and they don't really care.

 

That is why I wait... my truck has room for improvement but rides as I expect a truck to ride. Hate the thought of spending thousands for a bit of improvement. I will do the back end first as it is a known problem area as a result of towing and carrying heavy stuff. Front? Probably have to make the jump when I commit to 35's... Lots to do first-like make money...

@wis_taco your truck looks great. How were the washboard roads when you did the group run? What is not as you had hoped for? What is better?

 

I've got some brand new Sawzall blades and grinding wheels and cut off disks. Just tell me where to cut.

 

When I swapped my suspension, it was pretty stiff at first but after a couple thousand miles, it’s great. I think most need broke in a little after install.

 

I should definitely clarify that I'm a bit of a perfectionist at times so take my comments of it being "fine" with a grain of salt. Compared to my previous Bilstein 6112/5160 and OE sagged leafs it is stiffer but not in a bad way. Quite the opposite really - it's a noticeable improvement. This isn't my first rodeo and I've been turning my own wrenches since I was 14 (which means now that I think about it that's 25 years doing all my own work) so I know you can't just slap parts on and expect perfection out of the box. These parts need some tuning and break-in so I reserve final judgement sometime down the road when it's all dialed in.

Thanks appreciate it! Washboards were...washboard-y. But that is because I haven't touched the DSC adjusters yet. Now is when I start tweaking those things to fine tune the performance and understand which settings work for my build, i.e. this is the fun part now.

That's kind of what I have read everywhere and what I'm counting on. But glad to hear another report backing it up.

 

Quick stop in Stevens Point!
Rolled over to the brewery.






A 3rd Gen Red Off-road Tacoma sitting in the parking lot! lol



The Point Patio has a setup on the side for drinking!

Plenty of parking for a meetup!!! Lol


Point also has a few other brands. They had these on the floor but I haven’t tried them. Didn’t know if it’s any good
Anyone try it? @Pixeltim, @Thatbassguy, @McSpazatron, @Camerasandcoffee, @theJCKRBBT

 

Yeah when I first put on my pro shocks I was initially like oh god what have I done.

zero complaints now and rides real nice

 

Same exact feeling I had the first night after installation. Basically the emotion I had was the Tiger King meme like "I will never financially recover from this". But yeah trying to be patient and let everything wear in. I can already feel it getting better and no longer have doubts it will work out as expected in the long run.

 

I felt that.

 

The duality of TacomaWorld in a nutshell:



Also:

You just bought a new Tacoma, gotta break yours in first!

 

I think Point used to (maybe still does?) make "Berghoff" or something like that. We would buy it whenever we found it. They usually had it at the grocery store in New Glarus, IIRC.

Never tried the one pictured.

 

My man

 

Sounds like it’s time for some upgrades!

 

Yeah but if you are gonna keep it for 2 years you should do modifications now so you can enjoy them for the entire time