Wisconsin Tacomas and bad financial advice

What's wrong with that? My wife does that to her car pretty regularly.

 

Actually she scrapes that much metal off on a pretty regular basis!

 

Definitely have seen worse funny enough.

I’m completely spoiled lately by neither set of Maxxis’ needing balanced at all on beadlocks

 

Ditto. I've done one or two on customer vehicles that mounted perfectly, but never my own yet

 

Had to take the princess to work today as my wifes CR-V shed a belt last night. Snowing and blowing. Can't wait to lay in the snowy cold and fix that mess tonight...

 

That sure sounds like fun. Not.

 

You won't feel the cold if you wear pants instead of shorts.

 

Oooh belts in the cold is the best time

 

I'd bet the tire machine would say they need weights somewhere but the butt dyno says they are fine . I had a set of 37" Coopers that came on the second gen that definitely required a balance though.

 

Worked an overnight shift last night and had to access stuff in the bed a few times. I found myself wondering why I haven't yet found a lighting solution for under the tonneau back there. Have any of you guys set something up for the bed?

Ideally it would be wired as an accessory light or lights that would be activated when the tailgate is opened, but that may be a little tricky. Think dome light or top bed light when you open doors... I'd have to be able to switch it off as well for stuff like hauling with the tailgate down. If there isn't already something available (I searched for a bit at DD and Cali Raised and didn't find an application like this) I could go simple with a toggle switch in the bed, or even a battery pack in one of the stash holes in the bed if I didn't wire it in.

Guessing someone out there has a solution, or maybe a DIY setup that could work. I really know nothing about accessory lighting yet, but I do plan to do more lighting in a bumper with a light bar and spots/floods, and I know I'll be diving into the timesuck of looking at lighting control panels. If it would be better to wait until I get to that point I'll put away the CC for now.

 

That squirrel is up to something.

Awesome pics as usual! Thanks for sharing. Would love to check it out up there, but I'll wait for warmer weather.

 

That's crazy!

I think one of my Toyos or Yokohamas balanced without any weight. But, just one. That was enough to blow my mind.

 

Maybe something like this.


I have these for under the hood. Maybe you could make something like this work..

 

More stickers today! I was a little confused about why Ironman didn't include a height adjustment wrench with my kit. I found out it's sold separately and I had plenty of their rewards credits to get it for free. It's massive! Everything they do is a bit extra apparently.

 

There used to be a guy on the forums (maybe Matt Gecko?) that sold LED strip kits for the bed area. I’m away on mobile so can’t search myself but should be easy to find.

Edit: Here ya go:

https://mattgeckoleds.com/shop/ols/...th-bed-mounted-switch-toyota-tacoma-2005-2021