What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

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I totally agree about suffering from OCD and macular degeneration. Getting old certainly sucks. Keeping my autos showroom perfect has always be a hobby for me. Ask my wife how far I park from the store entrance.


Retired airframe power plant mechanic gotta keep me hands busy fiddling with stuff. Just finished replacing the dreaded rodent chewed knock sensor wire harness.

Cheers.

 

She’s a beauty

 

Excellent tool set-up!!!
I used similar paint marker.

 

looks good....say NO to blockers

 

whats the story?

 

A 2008 Off Road with 83k miles and a 2012 SR5 with 140k miles and a few grand back in the bank. Never been happier. 2016 was a problem model but I did keep it 5.5 years and put 25k miles on it. Loved it but constant warranty and TSB visits to the dealer killed the love.

 

Oh, to have the problem of a pitted windshield. Mine rarely get that far. About the time any windshield of mine starts to get pits, it gets a big ol' rock hit and cracks go everywhere. OEM, Safelite...same result (cheap glass is even worse plus you have to deal with a wavy view). Came out a few weeks ago and our Camry windshield replaced 1 year ago was cracked all over (snow, warm day, snow on roof slid down on warm windshield and boom). My Tacoma windshield lasted 600 miles before I had a 12" crack. It's on the passenger side so I'm ignoring it. Windshields in Colorado are like oil changes.

I think the pitting can happen anywhere. If there are any dirt or sand particles in the air (wind or kicked up by tires) and you hit them at 65mph they will make a tiny pit. And then you just collect more and more of them.

 

Yikes! That’s a lot to deal with!

Used to live in the desert and had all sorts of pitted windshields. I get it. Part of the deal. Some sand storms were so bad they actually made window glass opaque. Removed a lot of paint too.

The weird thing about our Taco’s windshield is that it’s not pitted at all. Smooth as can be. But when the light hits it just right it’s like @Cement_wheels said, all sorts of tiny imperfections, like they're embedded in the glass. Guess it's time for a new windshield. Just hope it doesn't have the same issue.

 

Added a ROLA Flat Strap Cargo Net to keep things from sliding around the bed. Also, finally installed the VLEDS footwell kit.

 

Do you have a link to them?

 

OH Id like that to add to my truck, how long does it take to install that and where can someone purchase it from?

 

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Took maybe 10 minutes to put in.

 

Added a new to me OEM roof rack

 

You can use TechStream to disable the seatbelt chimes.

 

Yes. I have TechStream. But I wanted to disable ALL the door open beeps and it doesn't like to disable those beeps. I had tried all other options before removing it, but it's bliss with it gone. Literally zero downsides lol.

 

Is it the same speaker that goes off when your keys are in the truck but you try and lock the truck? Clever mod though for sure!

 

Don't know, never done that.

 

The truck won't lock in that case. But it blares like hell for eternity when it happens and its ultra annoying.

 

Indeed, the 8 honks the truck kicks off when you walk away from the truck with the fob and it's running is highly annoying for sure.

Couldn't find a way to get rid of it.