What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

It's RaceDeck. Open tiles around and under the vehicles so that rain water drains away and solid in the walking areas and in front of work benches and such. Had white and blue vehicles when I put it down. Might have to add some red now!

Per @BigJanko they can be pulled up individually if needed.

BTW, they sell it in 12" and 18" squares. Went with 18" tiles at the time but I'd go with 12" if I did another garage. The 12" squares come preassembled in fours so faster to install.

Also, they're a vendor on the Garage Journal Forum. If you're a member you can get a pretty healthy discount.

 

More garage envy. Although I don't see how that would work with all the snow/ice/muck we bring in in the winter. I'd have to pull up and reinstall every spring. But the floor (and the tool cabinets) makes a nice work space.

 

Yeah, we get all of that, but mostly rain. Our garage floor is on a pretty decent grade so it drains and dries out pretty quickly. I've seen posts in the Garage Journal forum showing guys cleaning up with garden hoses and even power washers blowing stuff out onto their driveways. Others run wet dry vacuums. Haven't had to do that. Some have Roombas running around.

 

I'm pretty much set on Race Deck. My girlfriend wants to acid stain the garage floor. I just don't want to do all that prep work lol.

And then, she says the colors I want for the garage floor don't match the house, so I have to pick different colors.

It's a 2 car garage, but shallow. I don't even park my Taco in it because it would go from wall to garage door. So only my girlfriend's Si gets a garage spot.

So I may just do half of the garage for her car and order double the lip pieces for a border to remove any potential trip hazard.

 

Happy wife...

Oh, another tip, put down landscape fabric (weed mat) before installing the tiles. They tend to make a "clacking" noise when you walk on them otherwise. The fabric makes them silent and still drains just fine.

 

One of the YouTube videos I watched did something similar. I'll add that to the list. Good looking out.

 

How much do they usually run?

 

Hey what are you doing with that stock exhaust?

 

I just did SwissTrax in my garage. On the stairs, I used some recycled rubber mat that they sell underneath to make it a little quieter. It comes it a 4’ x 50’ roll so you could easily roll it on the garage floor if you wanted to.

 

Who's a good boy!

 

It is.

 

Of course cost depends on the size of your garage. You can look at the RaceDeck site to get an idea. Like @BigJanko mentioned, they have an online designer where you can enter your garage floor size and pick and choose which tiles go where. Worked great for us and they ended up shipping extra tiles to boot.

If anyone's serious about it, join the Garage Journal Forum and connect with the RaceDeck rep for a really nice discount. They have excellent customer support BTW.

 

I've been thinking about doing something like this. Was thinking about doing the Kicker Key 200.4 and Kicker Key 500.1 along with some new speakers and a sub. I have not kept up anything so wasn't sure if there are any harnesses out there nowadays for 2020+ that I can just plug n' play into the Kicker amps without having to cut and splice.

 

I have a 2017 TRD access cab. I changed the 3rd brake light to a smoked lense with LED which is sold on Amazon as a 2nd Gen brake light.
Note, external screws are access cab only for 3rd Gen.

 

Well... it's almost embarrassing to admit... as a guy... that's the OE Toyota TRD exhaust that came on our Taco. It sounded good and I could hear it all of the time (didn't bother me, kinda liked it), but so could the wife. She did not appreciate it. She never gave me a bad time, but did mention it a couple of times. Sooooo, I thought I'd see what it'd sound like with a stock exhaust. I found a local guy that put a Borla cat-back on his almost new Taco and was selling the stock exhaust. Picked it up cheap and installed it the other day. Wife smiled when I started it up and has been complimentary ever since. Like I said earlier, happy wife...

I'll probably put the TRD exhaust on craigslist or FBMP. Cannot believe how stupid expensive they are from Toyota, in the $900 range. If I got half that it'd pay for the replacement and the Toyota black chrome exhaust tip I ordered.

 

Skar audios website says it’s a .60 cu. The JL sub suggests a .50 sealed enclosure… I figured with a slightly larger enclosure it might give me a little more low end with not as much power needed, if it still doesn’t sound good it shouldn’t be difficult to fill up some box volume.

the enclosure says it’ll be here Thursday, everything else is already hooked up so it shouldn’t take too long to install.

 

Took it to my buddies house. He welded on nut after nut but it eventually came out. Took a couple hours all in. I went ahead and anti seized other bolts while he did that. F having the same problem twice. That was literally the only seat bolt with any rust on it though! We chased the threads and I got a new anti seized bolt in there. ,

One of my skid plate bolts was snapped off too (bought it like that) so we took care of that too.

 

Minor addition…put on the AVS Ventshades.

 

Took her to get quote after hail storm