What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

At home after finishing a 6k KM road trip. Original wipers blades finally packed it in as they glued themselves to the windshield with some extreme weather and lots of bugs.

Had previously bought a set of OEM replacement blades and inserts. Swapped out the OEM blades and will replace the original blades with the OEM refills so they are good to go next time. Then repeat as necessary.







Used this as a guide.

https://youtu.be/adRFPUFJDoo?si=0RnBYxIQFdzqSt45

 

All 50 states have symbolic a bird and flower.
Do provinces have anything similar? And why isn’t BC’s the mosquito?

 

We do refer to those here as the Minnesota state bird.

 

After four and a half years, finally got me a shell.

Was wavering between shell or tonneau, but decided on a shell allowing more storage for traveling. Unsure if I made the right choice overall, but it looks great.

Id like to keep some items in the bed now, but I’m weary of potential crackheads.

What else do y’all recommend in keeping the back safe?
Was thinking of tinted windows and a black blanket to keep random eyes from seeing what’s back there.

(Photo taken minutes after a visit to the car wash)

 

Looks nice. I'd love to have one, but my wife gives me shit. In my 30s, she told me that "only men in their 50s and older get those," yet I'm now in my mid 50s my wife says "I don't care what I said 20 years ago, you're still not getting one." Ugh

 

I been trying to them them to make a sticker for dudes with much smaller dicks. Nothing yet.

I unfortunately can not run that sticker.

 

What an absolute GREAT photo.... that's worth framing! Seriously!

 

One day she will wake up and see you packing all your stuff and moving out.

 

She knows that after 20+ years of marriage, that's not in the cards. Besides, she enjoys going to baseball games with me!

 

Just use the ignore function on him like me and half the forum.

 

I did with one guy who would not let up about his opposition to people getting a lift when they don't need it for off-roading. Effing ass-clown.

 

I know what you mean. Mine and I have an agreement.... if one leaves, the other gets to go along, too! We used to laugh about it when the kids were around making them think that we were going to leave them behind. One even commented once "If you leave who will remind us to take out the trash" and the other one said "you mean that we'll have to cut the grass, too?" We never left, and they are both grown and gone now with families of their own.

 

Living in New Jersey, I already had two tacoma's rust out. My 99 was bought back from Toyota and my 2009 had the frame replaced. My 2019 already has rust and my power steering lines and front trans lines near the radiator had to be replaced. Since this is my last tacoma, I really need to try to preserve it with fluid film. They did a great job and I am hoping it will save it from disintegrating.

 

I’ve always had a shell and it’s the best upgrade in my trucks day to day utility. Welcome to the club.

 

No good pictures - but I changed my spark plugs. My 2017 limited is at about 60,000 miles, so it was time. For being “the most difficult DIY maintenance,” it was actually really easy and pretty fun, albeit relatively time consuming.

 

I’ve had both shells, tonneau and bare back trucks and there are advantages and drawbacks for each. In retrospect the best of both was a shell that was easily removed. But currently I have a backflip on my Tacoma and a bed locker on my 2003 GMC Dually

 

Couple teaser pics until I can get the truck cleaned up...

@drtfabrication

 

Sorry to here that. Absolutely ridiculous what BS excuses companies will come up with to weasel out of there warranty. You would think they would honor there warranty, instead of now getting bad reviews. Says A LOT about who they really care about. P.S. It's not the customer

 

How old are your switchbacks?