What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

I found the pic with them on my truck

 

Trail ride with my BIL in Vermont

 

OTT? I would ask him, it's possible it was included and he didn't mention it. Did he ask about your gearing, tire size transmission type?

 

congrats and welcome to TW. You will find many ideas for the mods coming..

 

Noticed the road hazard picked up in my tire yesterday drove home and the good thing was most of the nail broke away on the travel home telling me I just picked it up from where I parked. I think I'm good no bubbles.

 

gave the truck a wash, pulled it in the garage, and the chrome grille strip started giving my the stink eye last night.

so at 7:00 last night, pulled the grille, sanded the chrome, primed, and painted it. then forgot the hood was open and touching the overhead door. went to close the overhead door while out walking the dog between coats of paint, and gouged out the front edge of my hood...

but the grille looks better.

 

That is one of my most cherished memories of my uncle. I think it was a Ford though. He's driving, his 3 girls and one of my brothers, then I'm the anchor on the passenger door with my arm out the window. Just around the corner from the house he turns left onto a major roadway and I go swinging wide, running along the sid eof the truck with my armpit holding me up on the door. "GET back in here!!" He only vaguely slowed down. . .

 

Had this happen to me in Bitburg Germany when I was about 5.........
Family was going along in the mountains in a rental Mercedes and back in the 70s to open the back doors you had to push down on the handle.

I clamored up to the back window over my older sister to get a better look outside to the mountains, and happened to push down on the handle......

The back door immediately swung open and I proceeded to swing out, me hanging onto the door for dear life. My sister grabbed me by the back of my shirt and yanked me back in.
My sister STILL brings it up to this day.

 

Sorry that happened. We need a way to acknowledge this type of post without a "like", because I can't like that you damaged your hood.

 

Good point. My "like" about the post was about the grill trim paint job. I have the silver strip too and keep thinking about painting it. The paint job in the post came out great. That's what my "like" was about. Obviously not about the hood trim.

 

it's irritating, but not world ending. it's still a truck, and still gets used. can't use a vehicle without it getting damaged. in the pic, you can just make out some of it, i dabbed some touchup paint in the worst of it. the rest i can hide with some creative buffing work later.

most importantly, the hood is still straight,it was only the paint that got scratched off

 

I just added moderately priced seat covers and a tailgate seal, hoping it will keep some dust out of the bed. That's assuming it ever stops raining here and I can actually go out on a trail.


Tailgate seal:

$29 ESI Ultimate Tailgate Seal with Taper Seal 10ft for use with Truck Caps and Tonneau Covers

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IPQWXZQ
Seat covers (I got them comp):

BALLIOL Pickup Seats Covers Compatible with Toyota Tacoma 2005-2023 SR SR5 TRD Off-Road TRD Pro TRD Sport Trall Special Edition Faux Leather(Gray,5 Sets Full Seat)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C2BTG3HP . They are a far cry from the Clazzios I've seen pics of; probably about the same as the Luckyman ones. Front seat quite nice; back seat will protect the main surfaces but don't wrap around fully.

 

yes OTT and nope none of that he does right across Canada (Yota Tunes) he came highly recommended and seemed to know his stuff.

 

I’m my own worst enemy sometimes too just plain rough on things. Grille looks great I have the same one and mine is peeling so definitely going to do mine now

 

Weird? Did you do it in direct sun??

 

NICE!!! AC’s are the real deal

 

Really nice man how much lift do you got?

 

Did a few more power steering drain, fill, and drives. Also cleaned my MAF sensor and the throttle body. The throttle body looked spotless but the filthy rag said otherwise. Glad I decided to do it. The idle was instantly calmer.

 

Thanks! 2” all around

 

Took advantage of the Memorial Day sale. These things are stout!