What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Nice! Curious, how long did it take? I've thought about doing that, but I've read that it's a good two hours or more including removing the headliner and such. Seems like a real pain so I've put it on the back burner.

 

From what I've seen online, you don't need to remove the head liner. Just take the c pillars out along with the clothes hooks in the back. Pull it down and you have access to it.

 

Had the recall done on my 2018 about 2 wks ago. I can’t confirm but seriously doubt they removed the headliner. The exposed part of the gasket is much larger than what came installed so they did the replacement.

 

I pulled the ceiling hooks and dropped the headliner to find my 2016 has no interior posts. If you look closely at the pic you see 2 external screws.
That type bolts on from the outside w/ those 2 screws. That's it. Pull it off and clean the old gasket off.
Somewhere in 2016 they changed them.
If you have interior posts it looks like a real p.i.t.a.

 

I thought the external screws was an access cab thing

 

I'm not 100% it isn't just a 2016 access cab thing. Though, some sites were referring to the trucks as 2nd gen 2016's.
Other sites were stressing to check your truck and make sure you had external screws vs. interior posts.

 

I have an access cab and it has the external bolts, I was too afraid to change the whole assembly so I just tinted it. Cheap easy option.

 

Unfortunately ours doesn't have the external screws, so per others, the rear of the headliner has to be pulled down which means removing several other parts to access the interior bolts. Tacoma Lifestyle has a couple of decent YT DIY videos here and here. So it'll probably stay on the back burner for me, but yours looks great!

 

I picked up one of these…

for that box… ordered the box last night. To all that have this enclosure, I’m curious about the build quality and your opinions. Seeing how it fit in the picture with it installed now I’m a little worried about the high excursion of this woofer hitting the plastic bin, again thoughts?

last weekend installed a kicker l7t preloaded enclosure and it hasn’t been hitting as low as I would like it to… so decided to get a much nicer box and woofer.

 

super nice speaker!!!
I removed the plastic on the back seat, little less stuff for the sound to rebound off of. Gives you a tad bit more room also.
Worse comes to worse, you could do a little plastic removal where the system sits, that with removing the plastic on the back of the seat you should be ok? <shrug>
Drop a cell phone or gopro in next to it and see how much travel you have, if it's hitting, yadda yadda yadda

 

Bought it a new (almost matching) stable mate.

 

Damn nice work area. Look at all that room. Do you make people take off their shoes before entering. Lol

 

To get the best out of any sub check out enclosure specs. Smallest enclosure possible will give the best hit.
Also, is that box sealed or ported?
Sealed will give you tighter bass.
Ported will give you deeper.

 

Guilty of the super cool floor catching my eye before the car...

 

Been doing that for decades. Always tell the dealer not to install their badge on the truck! Why should they get free advertising?

 

There are several different brands.

Race Deck is the one that immediately pops into my head. I think Swiss Trax is another.

Race Deck's website has a floor designer, so you can plan out your floor and pattern.

 

Looks sexy, but it looks like they're basically slotted tiles sitting atop your floor so if there are spills, you have to pull them up to clean up, is that accurate?

 

Yeah, more or less.

 

Thanks. I need to look into similar, non-open tiles to help prevent that sort of thing, though I suppose if they snap together, that's not something I am likely to find...

 

She’s getting old but still shines up pretty nice! Bath day.