What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Better let the authorities know

 

Installed carmount wireless charger for my iphone pro max 14 with magsafe case

 

Got some new tires finally. Had the original set. Almost got 3 years and a little over 93,000 miles on the Goodyear Wrangler All Terrain Adventure. Went with the Goodyear Wrangler Duratrac.

 

I have the same mod done, it's cheap, easy, and it honestly does make a substantial difference. I too was pretty shocked at the difference in the pictures, but I can say from experience that it really is much better when driving at night

 

You can purchase unbranded milk crates at your local Home Depot/Lowe's/Tractor supply for between $7 and $15.

 

With the hardware and rails, and maybe an offer to help them install it, you could get a lot more. The hard cover is only available from the factory and/or port; you can't buy it from the parts department. For reference, I paid about $875 for a BakFlip MX4. The downside to the MX4 is you lower the bed rails a bit and it doesn't say Tacoma on it. The upside is it sits flush with the bed and folds all the way up to the cab. I don't know if the OEM one lets you close the cover w/ the tailgate closed. So you have an item that is OEM and hard to find (more $) but has lots of competition with some additional features (fewer $). Good luck; I would have bought it 4 months ago if you were local to me.

 

Put some L-Track rails on my bed box.
Just waiting on my HDPE for the underside of the box and then it will be ready for adventures.

 

Decided to widen the drain holes in the bed. Upgraded to a 1/2” hole. Make sure to use a drill stop collar when doing this on the driver’s side.

 

Why?

 

Apple Carplay doesn't work through the wireless magnetic charger does it?

 

Anyone know the part number for these? TIA

 

Got my 6112/5160s put on yesterday. I got a set of 1.5" Icon AAL for the rear. I forgot to take measurements before the lift but after the lift, driver front is 36.5, driver rear is 37, passenger front is 37 and passenger rear is 38 and this is with a full tank. Idk what stock measurements were but I don't feel like I got the full 1.5" in the rear, at least not the driver side. The bilsteins almost completely eliminated the nose diving when braking and body lean when corner or taking a turn. Body feels real tight when turning now and the truck rebounds almost immediately over speed bumps now. Every photo I've taken makes the truck look like it's higher up front than the rear but my tape measure tells me otherwise. I'm planning on getting "pizza cutter" 33s as my next expensive mod, potentially the Falken Wildpeak MT01 because I've heard they're surprisingly quiet for a MT and they're the cheapest 255/85r16s on America's Tire website. They're also the cheapest off road tires in that size on their website, too.

 

I literally just ordered a box of them from Amazon. Supposedly they are pretty universal.

 

Today..I did this! After feeling the non TRD skid plates that came stock with my truck, i can’t believe they can get away with calling those skid plates

 

Got a second hand bed mat, and scored a hella deal on a Amp Research bed extender, added some Husky mud flaps (since I live on a dirt road these new Coopers pick up every single rock on this road and play a song on the bottom of the truck going down the highway) and swapped clear to yellow fogs. Also put in Z Precision cup holder. Good times.

 

They don't call them skid plates Toyota calls them Splash Shields, you know so shit don't splash up from underneath. Its only the people here that decided they are "skid plates".
https://parts.toyota.com/p/Toyota__Tacoma/Radiator-Support-Splash-Shield/63201563/5140504010.html

 

that’s actually not true. Part wise the shop probably knows what they are so they call them splash shields but if you looks at Toyotas customer facing information they even call them skid plates on the trd off road and sr5. They also call them skid plates in their spec you can get at the dealer.

 

Had to reboot my passenger side CV today.

 

Holy cow! I bet that thing moves people out of the way! I got the sharptones with the intention of adding the supertones later.
As-is they do a good job. Nice and loud, plenty obnoxious. Just had to paint the yellow grilles black though

 

Before and after changing out hood from normal off-road to scoop. Member here helped me find one on offer-up which was black. It already had the raptor lights in it so i took about 10 minutes to wire them in. Luckily I already had a package of add-a-fuse’s. Cost me $1k for the hood to be prepped and painted and they also painted my rear bumper end caps. There was a dent in the hood that they had to fix. The hood was black to start. They did an amazing job with the paint. Small body repair shop called Simply Bedliners in Surprise.

Another interesting thing is how hard it is to color match lunar rock. They initially tried the formula that toyota provides but it was off. They even called Toyota and it still wasn’t coming out right. I ended up leaving them my tailgate and after about 16 paint cards they had it perfectly matched. The bumper caps match my truck perfectly but when we put them next to my wife’s 2022 Lunar Rock 4 runner they are not a match. Just shows that Lunar Rock is different depending on the vehicle and the plant that the vehicle is coming out of.