What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

It’s true about many things, like toilet paper.

 

Over 50 cents a squat these days.
A friend did the math.

 

That math doesn’t seem to add up. Your friend may need to see a doctor or they are buying some high grade non-mass market stuff.

 

Mine saved my ass. Last year a motorcyclist hit me and damaged my passenger front fender and gouged my wheel, and he was lucky he didn’t get hurt or worse. I thought for sure I messed up because I signaled for a lane change and he hit me. My front and rear cams showed he hit me prior to me changing lanes. The cops were on my side and ticketed him. In the end, I paid nothing out of pocket and no dings on my license. Usually they side with the motorcyclist. I get it, splitting lanes are legal, but not when you’re going too fast, and that was clearly showing on the camera footage.

 

Well damn. I just installed the z precision cup holder this evening and was perfectly content until I read this post. Now I want a combo version.

 

That’s coming too.

 

I dig my FitCamX, but the dongle power + garmin mini might have better video quality?

heres some night footage with the fitcamx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBqFWq59szA

 

I just use a koozie on stuff thats too skinny to fit, like extra bugspray so it doesnt rattle around in the door

 

Today while making progress, I balanced it out with quite the opposite.. so now I'll be NOT reporting yet another major disaster to the insurance company. "What about full coverage? You're paying $282.00 a month for nothing." Right. Bcuz my truck screams full coverage. Once I pay off the $29,000 I still owe on this poor creature, she's getting liability like the other 3 that combined cost $34 mon

The boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. That's why I poop on company time.

 

That's a great idea, thanks!

 

Interested

 

The ‘22 TRD* automatics come with remote start so if he wants it he may not need to buy anything. I haven’t decided yet if I’ll use mine as I’ve made it this long without it. But I didn’t think I’d “need” the smart key and now when I get in the old 4Runner I can’t figure out why the doors won’t unlock and how to start the thing. I suddenly do need the smart key.

 

Repainted sliders since its wet season here in Wa, reinforced my steering rack mounts and bolt checked the rig.

 

Installed a B&M short shifter and finally repainted the chrome around my cup holders to black.

 

How is the shifter compared to stock?

 

Thank you, I appreciate the offer. Just ordered the light assembly at the phone charger. Plan to tap into that circuit and install the light somewhere in the glove box.

 

As promised, morning video of my Amazon LED bed light test. They seem pretty good. I'll see if I like them, for actual night loading/unloading, before considering a Matt gecko set of strip LEDs like I got under hood.

https://youtu.be/iqgw40GZFi4

 

Parked in the sun. To thaw out. It was a cold one. Last night.

 

Greased zerks and banged on the carrier bearing to see if it's the reason why the damn thing shakes on the highway.

 

You want it, trust me. Like you said, it's like your sidearm. Better to have it and not need it, then to need it and not have it.

About....6months ago a big dump truck was driving down the highway and wasn't covered. The dump bed was almost empty, and a piece of metal debris flew out and hit-cracked my windshield. I was able to stop the truck, get the drivers info and got his company too pay to replace the windshield. I had to replace it, the crack was RIGHT in my eye line.

To have it replaced with OEM glass and re-calibrated from Safelite? $1400 I spent just over $100 (pre-pandemic pricing before inflation took off) for the Garmin Mini 2 dash cam. That $100 saved me $1400! Money well spent.

Don't forget though, a dashcam doesn't always save your ass. Because sometimes the other driver doesn't have insurance at all, or enough insurance. Get under-insured/un-insured added to your policy if you don't already have it.