What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

uh... So I have a question. on R4T website, you can order stuff. cool.
Shipped is "X" amount of dollars, or you have the ability to pick it up locally.
For the ability to pick it up locally they charge you an additional $100 ?????
I was going to order and drive up to Denver to pick it up, but it's literally cheaper if they ship it.
what the actual ...

 

I was never impressed with them. I personally don't like one-stop shops. Your tend to get better support if you bypass the middle man and establish a relationship with the source manufacturer(s).

 

that does indeed make zero sense

 

I have been wanting to visit their shop but know if I do I'll want more stuff.
Regarding online, when I went looking for my RCI sliders, R4T did carry them and at the same sale price but they had a delivery charge for local pickup at the R4T shop of $285. Now I know it's expensive to ship sliders, but they are literally 50 miles from the RCI factory. Couldn't they get a batch cheaper? So I just drove myself to RCI, paid no delivery fee, and had them put them on for me (they did charge for this but it sure was convenient, especially since I had one arm immobilized due to an injury).

 

Yes, there are several TW members that have them installed. The only issue I have had is that of temp drops below freezing the control on the far left is loose and you have to squeeze to turn the knob. Once warmed up it works fine.

 

How many miles did you have at time of replacement?

 

Where did you locate the tweeters?

 

59.2k. It's spring, the weather was nice, and I'm getting the less pleasant 60k items out of the way, starting with that mess. Good gravy I've never had to use a step ladder and contort to reach some of those bolts before.

Stock dash location with an adapter. Crossovers stuffed just underneath. I know the real audio nerds will drill and mount the sail panel. I'm not there. ...yet.

 

Haha, im coming up on 50k, so maybe next spring ill be doing same 60k service items. My step ladder is ready.

 

I hated this one in particular:



And the driver's side electrical harness gave me some grief too. But other than that, it was gravy.

 

Has been so warm this winter I’ll see what happens next winter. Saw your radio switch covers just put silver in my Amazon cart lol…thanks

 

Welcome to TW.

 

Hey @RicerRabbit I finally installed the RedArc brake controller in my truck too. What do you think of it? I had to get my travel trailer to the dealer today (2 hours away) and while driving around town and back roads to the highways for a bit to calibrate the redarc, I did not like what I was experiencing. brakes were locking on the trailer, causing skidding at traffic lights and stop signs, plus lots of shaking. Maybe I didn't give it enough time or experiment enough with turning down the braking power... I had to get my trailer out to PA, so I ended up towing the trailer out with my father-in-laws full size truck.... what a difference, lol. But I'm not going to give up just yet with my Tacoma and this RedArc. Any ideas? Is it user error? lol

 

Only if all the pouches are full Otherwise its just a lot of pouches. A weeks worth of dog food for 2 large dogs, recovery gear, hammock kit, air hoses, two Cliq chairs (one small, one large), 2 medical kits, lash straps, lights sticks, hand warmers, drink mixes (liquid IV, emergenC, etc), gravity water filter and lifestraw, spare 1lb propane tank, trash can in the middle between the two front seats, up top there is a rolled up rain jacket and rolled up puffer down jacket along with a couple sets of gloves. You know now that I wrote it all down... maybe its a lot of stuff

 

Once it gets warm consistently I am going to put a small strip of double sided tape on the knobs which should solve the issue.

 

Front diff (swapped with Lexus plug), transfer case and rear diff fluids. I wish Toyota would simplify the amount and type of sockets and washers needed for this process. The front diff was nasty, but the rest could've been left a lot longer. (18k miles, but 6+ years old)

I even bought the fancy Toyota stuff and a new can opener. The things we do for our trucks.
(btw, harbor freight battery pumps are trash and won't suck up any gear oil)

 

i find the back up camera/senser/warning system is not very efficient/friendly compared to others

 

looks great in daytime

 

Installed a Headstrong 3 Leaf AAL and rear Bilstein 5100's tonight. Tomorrow morning the front 5100's with OME springs go in.

 

That's an insanely clean looking undercarriage for a 6 year old truck. I don't think mine looked that good a week after I drove it home (it didn't; I was under it running the tailgate lock wires and knocking dirt into my face).