What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

I saw this front bumper in a video and was looking for it, who makes it?

 

In my state 35% is the darkest allowed on the driver and passenger windows so that’s what I did. I believe the factory tint on the back side windows is a shade darker, at least looks that way to me. Not sure about the back window. I also did the brow on the front windshield as low as allowed (4”-5” ?). Not sure about night vision as I just had it done this morning.

 

FWIW, I went with XPEL ceramic 20% front and 35% over the rear and back window. I wanted something a tad darker than 35% up front and not completely blacked out in the rear. It's perfect for AZ. I probably could have gone one level darker. If I lived somewhere else say like PNW or drove a lot of back country roads at night I'd probably go a tad lighter.

 

Thanks for the kind words. I've done the grill (Trail Edition) LED lights all around inside and out, de-badged (except for the bed decals and those are going to turn black pretty soon) various non-essential updates and what-not. Looking at some black and bronze wheels to match the grill. In the middle of putting Clazzio seats in it. Otherwise I'm probably not going to do a whole lot more. Thinking that a 1.5" lift would look great, kind of like yours, but I'm concerned about the ride. Wife doesn't mind its "truck ride", but anything more would probably be frowned upon. Came from a 2nd Gen Tundra LTD. Was like riding on a Barcalounger. The Taco's not quite as smooth, but it's not bad. Just don't want to push it.

 

I went with the 20% Xpel ceramic on the fronts too and am happy with them. The rears are at 5% but I didn't want to go that dark in front. Driving at night is fine for me, although to be honest, I really don't drive the Tacoma too often at night.

 

My thinking exactly.

That's what I was guessing. You can still see through the windows in your photos. Looks just about right. When we lived in AZ the cops never paid attention... could hardly see them in their own cruisers.

The guys with blacked out windows always made me suspicious... what's going on in there exactly?

 

Anyone know where to get this EXACT decal?

 

Lift looks good, great stance. I'm still running stock-size Toyo A/T IIIs, so no need for much more than something that looks good.

Some friends installed Katzkins in their various cars and trucks. (They have a before/after of a Tacoma on their site's home page). They look great and you can customize to your heart's content. But they're actual replacements - remove the existing covers, take everything down to the foam and start new. Price-wise I guess that's not terrible. They have their own installers. I would never tackle something like that. Clazzios look very good too, but they are just covers. To the untrained eye they look original so for a half (third?) of the price, that's good enough for me.

 

Took it back and they showed me another leak next to the plug. It’ll be covered 100% with my road haz warranty.

But when I got home and was looking at previous pic with the object. I noticed something that didn’t matched.

Pic with the “screw”…


Pic with plug/patch…


Notice where the actual hole (where the screw was) compared to where it was plugged???

The leak that @Discount Tire showed me is coming from the previous hole where the screw used to be!

Well, it’s their screw up. Just inconvenienced for me.

 

I'm just shy of 55k on the truck. Figured I'd change out the PCV. Hoping to avoid the dreaded leak in the future. The old PVC didn't look too bad which I take is a better sign than a gummed up sludgy one. It had a little oil on it but that's it

 

looks like just the rod holder i am looking for too - THANK YOU!

also - what spigot is that on your roto pax water can? Looks great.

 

$33 GoWesty Deluxe Spout Kit for Use with Rotopax Water Container

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073RQ7DTP?ie=UTF8

Amazon special. Be gentle with it, you can cross thread it easily if you're moving fast. I had to use a small amount of teflon tape to get it to not leak. It also doesn't pour fast because there is no air back flow. You could put an air port on the high side which I've considered. If you go to a plastics place (like a place that makes water tanks for RV's) you could get them to rotoweld a new hold/plug/cap on the high side for cheap.

 

awesome, thanks, great tip.

 

2021 was the last model year for Texas-built Tacos.

 

looks great!

 

That looks sweet!!

 

I've used the same on my truck same color as yours and it is fantastic!

 

Installed some CaliRaised Cat Shields yesterday!

 

This literally had me cracking up dude

 

Is this PCV leak issue for the 4cyl as well?