What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Nice! I spray painted mine black but those would be easier to clean. Do you have the part number for those and the matte black ones by chance?

 

If that license plate light glare gets to be annoying lmk!

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/3rd-gen-cheap-easy-license-plate-light-glare-fix.739648/

 

Looks great, which bulbs did you use?

 

I noticed pretty quick that high crosswind on the highway made for an active effort to keep heading in the right direction. Very annoying. Once I installed the Lomax, though, I've found it's significantly improved things. Hadn't thought about tire pressure affecting that. Mine came at 30 PSI, which I think matches up with the door jamb sticker. Obviously they fluctuate a few PSI with temp, but maybe I should air them up a bit?

 

Which bulbs did you go with? I asked Altagra already, just want to make sure I don’t waste my time with cheapy sets too lol

 

For both trucks for an aftermarket application, Meso customs and vled for everything else

after going through so many cheap failures, I saved money buying premium products once versus multiple sets of cheap stuff. And the output hands down great and longevity. Have had no failures for anything I’ve gotten since 2018

It’s either OEM LED’s, Meso and vled for both trucks for everything that can be swapped out.

 

Done

 

Installed Total Chaos bed stiffeners.

 

Is the dome swapped?

the tundra map version is crazy bright, it’s like a dome per map light, they’re so big

 

No the dome was swapped but I broke the connector messing with it too much need to order new dome light from meso. All the light is just from map lights on red

 

I can vouch for the license plate glare fix!



Halogen



LED

 

$19 AUTOGINE Super Bright 6000K White LED Interior Light Kit Package for 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Toyota Tacoma + Install Tool

AUTOGINE Super Bright 6000K White LED Interior Light Kit Package for 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Toyota Tacoma + Install Tool

 

New shoes in 265-75-16s

 

Part numbers for the OEM black caps, bought in spark parts.

the matte caps are from eBay, didn’t fit well tbh and were a pain to align

 

I put some decals to block the light beam pointing up the reverse cam. Since I have an aftermarket rear bumper I can’t put one of those fancy “glare blockers”. I believe the lamp lenses are “axial”. I block the half part that shines upright.



Before


After

 

Cool @MGMoverland ! I found your meetup page; not sure I'm equipped enough for that (and I usually go remote by mountain bike) but great to see folks organizing trips like that. I'm just outside Golden myself.

 

Pulled the logo stickers off the side of the smartcap

 

Got these MGM color to replace the black AJT stick-on.
Install when I wake up tomorrow…

 

@MiTacoTRD

Great mod! lol

I mean, good idea on making your own glare blockers!

 

I think changing out the cup holder for the AJT Design larger model is one of the best mods I have done on my truck.