What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

That's a possibility.
I'm considering looking into one; I just like to understand.

 

Don’t worry, the free spirit one is $3.8-$4.1 before shipping!
I’m in the same boat. Never looked at a rtt before, but for whatever reason that “Z” design in his pic spoke to me.
Had to shut off the free spirit video half way through because I was starting to justify…

 

It is that Z design thats pulling me in. I got a bed tent when I first got my truck in 2018... I set it up in the driveway and then put it away. Still have not used it. But I would love to do a weekend camping/fishing thing, my fishing buddies are not exactly prepared to camp and there is no way they are sleeping in the tent with me so theres that too.

 

Saw a couple trucks on here with TRX lights and figured I'd give it a whirl.

 

Wasn’t sure about grill lights , picked some up to give it a look. Pretty happy with the results. Used “add a fuse” , quick install. Turn on and off with the headlights.

 

What gauge and length positive and negative cables did you order from Powertrays? I'm in the middle of a similar install with a 3D printed Etsy mount and the included Auxbeam AR800 cables are way too long.

 

Made all of the cables myself. I’m using 6awg as the main source to all fuse panels/Auxbeam and 8awg as the ground.

 

Note: this became a long post for no reason.

I was surprised by just how painfully slow the Tacoma is and have a theory on the tune subject based on my experience. My mom has a is350 awd fsport, my father had a 16 Camry v6, my good friend has 18 Camry v6. All of those cars actually boogie pretty well and I assumed this Tacoma motor would feel similar. It does not feel similar in anyway at all to me. I understand the trans and gearing aspect and still find it to be dogged by really poor stock tuning. My summer car is a 15 RCF and I just got a MT Tacoma for my winter car. All of these cars, even the RCF feel like they will not give you full power from a dead stop, exacerbated in the Tacoma! In my rcf, with traction control off and pedal dance, will not roast up a huge burnout from a dead stop. Like it eases into the throttle even if you stomp it. I can do a 5mph rolling burnout though. How is that possible? I think Toyota softens the input in certain situations to reduce wear on the drivetrain parts from a stand still. So that’s my theory.

The trade off is the ability to get 300k+ miles out of your Toyota. Will you have failures? Probably not. Will it last to its full, protected, potential? Probably not. But still much more than you’d expect from any car. I have always noticed our Toyota and Lexus cars have a bit of a “softening” programmed in to the responsiveness of everything, even the notorious soft LCA bushings. I believe it reduces the slightest bit of wear on all the driveline components. Toyota is not really concerned with giving us every ounce of performance potential but is concerned with giving us every ounce of reliability potential.

That being said, I really want a pedal commander to help while I’m too impatient to spend time learning about the different tunes and how to install one. I think a tune will be unavoidable for me.

 

Viofo A129 Pro front and rear dash cam. Always one of the first things I do to a new vehicle. Luckily never needed it but it's cheap to do and invaluable if it is ever needed.

 

I did my 1st oil change at 2,000KM

 

Well, you may be right. There may be some things Toyota does to ensure reliability as you suggest. I’d also add there is possibly a component of safety factored in to that equation as well. Making sure to limit performance so you avoid loosing traction as much as possible. Which can be great in certain circumstances but perhaps a little boring. Like going around a corner and trying to break loose the rear tires. Seems like there is this hesitation built in at the throttle preventing you from doing that. Anyhow, pure conjecture on my behalf. But ya Just never know how many nanny controls are built in behind the scenes.

 

No Like about it, this is what I observe too on my 2020 OR. My 2nd gen 2006 didn't have this built in engineered hesitation limitation irritation.

 

This was something I noticed going from and ‘02 to the ‘20, especially getting up to speed to merge onto the highway. When I did the KDMax tune this issue went away.

 

I like it. And I think I know how you can make that one million and two. When I look at this, all it is missing is a head, and it's like an aluminum wide-body "person" begging to hold the phone. So on the horizontal piece, you cut-out the head, and leave it in the same plane as the torso and then you have a cuter commercial product. Heh heh.

 

replaced the license plate cheap LED bulbs for a full LED light the ones that comes with the housing. i made sure i put a lot of dielectric grease in the connection and the rubber seal. don't want them to start failing like the other ones. no pics i was just to mad at how difficult is to take the bulbs out.

 

I have the same opinion. I went from an 08 Sport Tacoma to a 2021 Tacoma OR. I also did not notice the lag and gear hunting in the 08, I definitely noticed/felt it in the ‘21. I did get the ‘21 tuned which cured the gear hunting and throttle response.

 

are this the 200bucks Amazon one?

 

I like that it looks like a little guy wanting to hug my phone but hadn't thought to make a head shape in there. I'll throw one on and cut it out later, just because!

 

Here's my Journey of mods! Uploading more pics as I can.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/sr-to-trd-journey.789260/

 

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