What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

TRD Skid was on sale, picked that up. Painted it an appropriate color and installed it.

 

Gave her a bath this weekend to celebrate 2 years with her! Love this truck!

 

Got some new shoes on my 19 for the winter.

 

Another pass through the chrome removal machine.

Sequential smoke mirror signals



And oem black bumper ends. Complete pita to install but I like the result. (Gotta finish getting that dealer sticker off :| )

Helpful threads:
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/16-tacoma-bumper-cap-removal.404082/
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/rear-bumper-cover-removal-and-rant.797971/



Next up… lights.

 

Wrong. Time moves from least to greatest. One VERY recent way it is currently being represented is with a circular face and hands that go from left to right. For WAY more years than that (and also still currently), it is represented with sand that runs from top to bottom (down).

 

Replaced interior lights with LED bulbs. It's not much but it's honest work!

 

Time doesn’t move. The numbers are just a manufactured measurement to represent a cataloged moment. Everything else moves around it.

 

We’re talking about gravity here, yes?

 

Older than glass ...

 

All this has me remembering the backmasking "excitement" and ELO's fun with it (an album, Ole ELO) and the song (Fire on High) that states very clearly (if you can listen backwards of course), "The music is reversible but time is not. Turn Back!". And if a 70s/80s rock band said it, then it MUST be true: Time cannot go back, so we must be imagining daylight savings time.

 

Was sitting at the car wash flipping through the menus out of boredom when I noticed that the right rear tire was about 10 PSI lower than normal. Got home and found a small nail in the middle of the tread. Gave me a chance to use the tire patch kit I have.

1 bacon strip and maybe 30 minutes of time and now I can go on about my day worry free. No need to schedule an appointment at a tire shop, take time out of work, etc.

 

In my experience time just seems to run out, not up or down or backwards.. do everything 100% because why not and love your peeps.

 

If time didn't move, it would always be the same day, date, and time. Time is always increasing. That movement has been represented a bunch of different ways throughout history. There is a great documentary about specifically this that was made a few years ago.

 

That's the only reason I won't get them.

 

Odd about the alu bending. Mine have been mounted with it for years now and no movement at all.
No worries tho. If you like the plywood, then definitely go with it. It's all good.

 

What kit do you have?

 

I also keep my pelican on year round as well. Has held up perfectly through 2 north east winters. Only complaint I have is I wish I got a different color as the tan I got has been heavily sun bleached to almost white on top.

 

Gained 52 miles per tankful after oil and filter change!

So it was time for my 3rd Gen oil and filter change. I changed my own oil and filter on my 2nd Gen 49 times in 13 years and 249K miles on her. But this cartridge crap is for the birds, I let the Dealership do it. So after a tank or so my 3rd Gen took my available miles on a tankfull down to 302 miles after each fillup. After my oil change Tuesday AM I am now at 354 miles until empty! Gained 52 miles there somehow.

Could they have unhooked the battery and reset the entire vehicle? Brought it back to new, so to speak, before it learns my driving habits? I have the KD MAX tune and all still seems to be well with that but I swear it does seem slightly more responsive. It makes me wonder did they do a SW update on it?

 

Love it! Glad you didn't have to schedule, then wait in a queue to get this done. Very satisfying, I would say.