What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Haha, I have a stuffed Baby Yoda my niece gave me, he rides in the back seat.

 

What ditch lights do you have? Those light covers are sick!

 

Added Z precision cup holders and Rav4 knobs to the stereo. Both extremely useful IMO. THE RAV4 knobs are a huge improvement. Also installed my new OEM Tacoma bed mat.

 

The wife’s Wrangler is at the dealership getting a new radiator and hose for $2k. She drove it like she stole it and something in the road disagreed with her aggressive slaloming.

 

Installed leather seats.

Notes:

• Purchased light grey from https://leatherseats.com/. Closest match to the gray soft panels on door and dash (truck came with cement gray cloth interior). Black Friday 10% off sale.
• These videos are highly recommended
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apVyaDq2-Jw&t=934s
    
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NknJzVGi60Q
    
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0tx9gQnYqs
    
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXl230vwD6A&t=61s
• Tools
  • US-made hog ring pliers https://www.csosborneupholsterytools.com/category/Hog Ring Pliers
  • External Torx (star) 14 socket
  • Magnetic tip screwdriver (or magnetizer)
• Can be done by one person. Took me 4 days including new seat heater wiring. But requires help with zippers on the front seats so wife assisted.
• Lots of pushing and stretching resulting in many muscle aches
• You will likely save about $1000 in installation costs. And will get some personal satisfaction in doing it yourself.

Have a Blessed day.

 

Aviation NDT/INSP?

 

Close. Pilot, A&P, and now functioning as a Fleet Reliability Specialist.

 

Best spot to get oem light switch for ditch lights to the left of the steering wheel. Looking for blue backlight and I believe it’s a tall switch. Found them on tacomalifestyle and Cali raised. Any better spots

 

Installed 6112/5160 kit , set at 2” in the front. Thanks to
https://www.tacomaworld.com/forums/hotshot-offroad.173/
For taking such good care of me. Everything arrived just perfect.
Removed 2.5 spacer in the front and left the 1.5 block in the back. Went with 275/70/17 KO2’s after getting 71k highway miles out my 265/70/17.
Trimmed 1x.5 piece in the back of front wheel well. No rub on highway after 150miles, thats where I spend most of my time.Super stoked on how it all turned out. AluCab install tomorrow.

 

Nice truck man

 

Thank you my friend , forgot to mention, I kept my 1.25 spacers as it did not change the chance of rub and I preferred the look.

 

Did good, real good.

 

Did the Screenprotech wrap on my dash on my 2016 Tacoma.

Others said it works great, and it does. I bought the truck when it was 2.5 years old, and the info screen and the speedo screen were brutally trashed.

No great photos as there are too many light reflections.

I got the kit that came with the backup liners. Good thing, I screwed the speedo screen with 20 big bubbles. The second attempt went on good.

A lot of dust and such on the one photo, but it looks great now. None of the 100+ scratches visible now. The liner on the info screen went on flawless. Both look new again. Great upgrade to the cheap plastic on the dash.

Edir - got another pic, info screen.

 

Looks great! Really nice work.

 

I tried to install the RAV4 knobs on my 3rd Gen and they stuck out 1/4”. Frustrating. They’re put on correctly I swear. I’m starting to wonder if they aren’t compatible with 2023 stereos.


Do I have the wrong head unit? It’s the touchscreen with CarPlay with 4 buttons on each side

 

Looks fantastic!! Is the protector applied directly over the scratched lens? Or do you need to buy a whole new lens, and then apply the protector? I think you applied over the scratched lens, correct?

 

Yes, you put it on over the scratched lens

 

Apply right over top of the scratched screens.

 

What??? I gotta get that! Mine looks like a rabid cat been trying to get into there! Is it like the screen protector on my iPhone where she put this clear thing on there and sat it under a UV light?

 

Thank you.