What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Installed the RCI roof rack last night. Took advantage of the 20% off pre-Black Friday sale. Install was easy even by myself. My kit was missing the 5/16 washers for the mount carriage bolts, but nothing my stash of miscellaneous washers couldn’t handle.

Drove 130 miles of interstate and very little wind noise, even at 75mph! I get a little whistling noise in crosswinds but that’s with no radio and it’s barely discernible. MPG is about .3 less than usual, but it’s also unseasonably warm today so that surely needs to accounted for. Super pumped.

 

Has anyone installed the Redline Tuning Hood Lifts and what do you think of them?

I will check this site out. Thanks.

 

Installed

$100 Spiker Engineering Ultimate Hood Lift System for 2016-2023 Toyota Tacoma – Effortless Hood Opening up to 8” Above Stock Height – Premium Quality Gloss Black USA-Made Components - Complete Kit

Spiker hood struts... essentially the same thing. Positive reviews for both. Excellent upgrade. More here:

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/hood-struts.774352/#post-27671470

 

I installed the redlines. Totally worth it if you open the hood a lot. Super easy. Just be sure to tape off the drill bit. I didn’t and have one tiny poke in my hood but wouldn’t notice unless you’re looking for it.

 

Man, that truck is so clean I'm embarrassed how dirty my truck is in comparison and I just washed it!

BTW, where did you get the TRD center caps? Those look great on your truck.

 

Mall crawler.

OE TRD center caps from the dealer. PN PTR56-18130-AA

https://autoparts.toyota.com/products/product/trd-center-cap-black-w-red-service-ptr5618130aa

 

Off topic but congrats on having your TV at an appropriate viewing level.

 

Are you a part of r/TVTooHigh?

 

You have malls where you live?

Lucky!

I kid you not, all I have is a Dollar General and a BP station.

 

very interested to hear if you have rubbing. That’s basically the setup I’m looking to run minus stock wheels.

 

yeah, because it's unimaginable to have to actually tilt your head! ghastly!

 

I added a rooftop tent to our flatbed prototype for testing purposes...well maybe a little bit of personal pleasure in there too .

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Here are some pictures without it!

 

And what more could one want or need?!

 

holy moly that is legit! Nice set up !
I only added on board air lol which like such a small thing now

 

Some hammer hangers, or equivalent, would look really good on this build. They also improve handling.

 

Sold my mid-height Yakima bed rack. Just a day later started searching for a rack to go over my softtopper and what do you know, a used Uptop Truss was just 5 minutes from my house.

 

Damn, that truck looks good.

 

Figured it would take half an hour to wash the truck. Ended up taking at least three hours before I was done. Doing this really makes you notice every scratch or rock chip. Back to like new again, though.

 

Ehhhh. Stuff happens. People dgaf about anything they all seem to be pretty self absorbed. My truck got smashed like this by some moron. I was in the truck.. I said WTF...???? The lady just shrugged and was like WHAT.. it's just a door ... I don't have time for this.

Ok.. have a nice day..... Go ahead and rush inside While I cave your door in with my foot and find a new parking space...

My son's truck got dented on both doors .... Same thing... People just don't care man. Kicking in the side (or busting the mirror, or windshield , etc) of someone's vehicle who does this would seem to make you feel better... Speaking from experience it does not .... I wind up even more angry afterwards... Like why am I reduced to doing this