What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Worth it and heck of a deal! How'd you manage that? ha

 

Ya, Derik's will be my third round on that cab mount, ha. First a CMC, then a DIY relocate, now the big boy parts, ha.

 

I'll just put this here, ha. And yes, I did replace the 12" brackets with 14" ones. Those clear the door perfectly.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...3rd-gen-today.399305/page-10377#post-25975133

 

Nice! Derik did my CMC a year or so ago and couldn't be more happy. I'll upgrade to his CMR if I ever upsize the tires but I'm in no hurry lol.

 

FEDEX sucks. Luckily for my RCI sliders there was no damage. The boxes was banged up, retaped, had a hole, ect. But glad RCI packaged in inside properly. I'm sure most FEDEX/UPS workers don't care about these heavy items during transport.

 

We sure don’t! One crushed skid plate on the bottom of the stack is better than 15 crushed boxes if you were to put it on top. Onus of proper packaging is on the shipper.
As someone else said there’s no good way to package these kinds of items for shipping. Consumers want it all; cheap shipping, secure packaging and quick delivery. However, almost always, you can only pick two.

 

I'm keeping the bumps themselves as spares since I still love them up front and they've gotten super pricey now, but I could sell you the top plates and pedestals if you want. I don't recommend reusing U-bolts but if you wanted them I could throw them in - I ran them with the Archive 9/16" u-bolts instead of the wimpy 1/2" ones the kit came with. Shoot me a PM if interested.

 

Best Mod!

 

Actually some dense foam in plastic cups at the corners would prevent the skid plate from shifting in the cardboard box. Or for the price of the skid plate adding another $10 for a wooden crate would also be acceptable if it prevented damage. In my OP I stated the shipment was 2 pieces. One was delivered and the skid plate was not. It was another 5 days before I received the damaged package.
So it turns out the shipping wasn’t cheap, it wasn’t quick, and it wasn’t secure. 0 for 3.

 

Upgraded fog lights to amber for $10. I went cheap to see if I even like the orange 1st before buying new lights.
Pretty good, thick, plyable and very adhesive film. If it lasts I might just leave it as is.

 

Nice, I put Laminix on my hatchback's fog's like 4 years ago. Still holding strong.

 

After I got all the bubbles out I used low heat to help form the edges and trimmed with a sharp xacto knife.
It's on there good.

 

If you thought that was expensive and took forever you wouldn’t have been happy with the alternative.
Wooden crates and pallets are cargo shipments which incur additional freight charges and take even longer to arrive.
I’m sorry you had a bad experience and hope the vendor was able to appease you

 

Was thinking about doing the same thing with Lamin-X. Rarely drive at night, especially in the fog, but I just think amber fogs look good. Like that they could protect them from flying debris too.

If anyone else is about to order, here's a 15% off coupon code:

SAVE15

I bought the pre-cut film since I'm not so good with tedious trimming. Coupon almost covered shipping. Guess if you buy more than one thing you get free shipping.

https://lamin-x.com/toyota-tacoma-trd-2016-fog-light-covers.html

This YT DIY is helpful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnj8qFgVJZo

 

I put the Lamin-x amber film, precut, on my '16 at least 5 years ago, still in place and looks great. I did because I didn't want the expense of new fogs, so far I'm happy.

 

do you happen to have a link to the brackets?

Edit: disregard. I don’t think those will work with my Cali raised rack.

 

Here you go:

Countertop Support Bracket 14" Steel L-Bracket

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00S5HP49C?ie=UTF8

I've still got the 12's if you don't mind the door slighting rubbing the cover. Predrilled too, ha.

 

I mostly just want it to get here in one piece and without damage. Thanks for your explaining crates/pallets and shipping.

 

Nope they were all tight like a tiger! And I saw no signs of blow-by on the coil packs, they were all clean.

And in this picture you see one of the cylinder #1 valves. Two were clean and the other two were filthy. Intake and exhaust, I assume. Quite a bit of crud in there but the valve seats looked shiny.

 

Do you know the height of your rack? I know Cali says their high rack is 17.5in and just eyeballing it, it looks like I only need to lift my small 270LT about an inch for it to clear. Lol