What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

no participation trophies given here......one winner(me)
sometimes you have to go to the mall for ammo, off road camping gear and condoms

ps: i might send one to Chloe

 

Just a rusty old buoy.
My dad bought a beach house at Sargent Beach in 1968.My guess I was about 14. There was trees brought in by the tide over 100' long and my guess from South America.
My Company Commander asked me and two others to fly the beach from West of Freeport to Louisiana looking for DB's. (Dead Bodies) Shrimp boat sank. We were 100 AGL and about
40 mph. Never seen more hard hats and igloo coolers that washed up on shore.

This is 27 miles west of Freeport:


PS You live in TX

 

So check this out. I got a diagram on the crash report. I'm the green car in the diagram. Apparently behind me two cars merged into one lane, the blue Hyundai lost control and was sent flying into me. IMO it looks like she was merging with too much speed. Anyways both parties are claiming fault. The other car is a company truck and it had a 360 camera onboard and showed everything. Their insurance is paying everything and my deductible is being waived.

 

My Taco had about 70,000 miles on it, when I got it, and the cluster cover was scratched to hell. I had read that the screen protect would take care of it, and was skeptical, but decided to give it a shot. I got the premium kit and was glad I did, as the first application was a bit more squirrelly than I expected, so I took it off, and had much better success the second time around. Made the cluster look new, and it still does, even after about 4 years. Highly recommended!

 

Interesting. Let me ask a question, If you had noticed the in your rear view mirror the 2 vehicles colliding. Do you think if you knew that you could have avoided the collision with that car??

 

Probably not. Traffic in front of me was braking so I was paying attention to that, and I think even if I had noticed, the Tacoma acceleration and steering is slow to respond. It happened so fast, as I was pulling over, I kept asking myself what the heck just happened

 

Ok technically “S mode”, but the same holds true that you can force it to shift up if it’s dragging on. Give it a go and let us know what happens.

some good reading here
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/how-does-the-s-mode-work-in-automatics.744223/

 

You linked a thread that accurately describes the function of s mode but keep incorrectly saying you can control up shifting?
It is simply an upper limit.
The only way you can “force” the trans to upshift is if you have set to a lower gear, the rpm’s are past the ecus preferred shift range for that gear and then you shift it higher. You can’t make the transmission move upward more than it wants.
Go set it to S5 @ 20mph. Let us know what happens

 

Awesome stuff and nice work!

thank you.

 

Don't know why Toyota cheap'ed out here. First mod I did on my 2020 within the first 2 weeks of ownership. My screen still looks like new after years of cleaning. Now if I could just get that little bit of dust and dirt out from behind the trip reset/dash light switch.

 

No, you can't force it to upshift. Like I said, you merely suggest you'd like to upshiift and the ECU decides if it's going to comply. I'm quite familiar, my 3rd gen has 118k miles on it and I am tuned. You don't force this transmission to do anything, you suggest. Many a time, I've pushed S6 and gotten nowhere. The trans says: nope, I'm not warm enough yet, I'll sit here at 3k for a little while yet. Besides, you're on a .5% grade and I'd prefer to be level or on a down grade for that suggestion.

 

I'd heard about this dust issue early on so I used an extra ear bud adaptor cut at an angle to create a 'boot' to keep dust out. It seems to have worked so far. And I obviously need to clean the panel (why does every speck of dust show up in pictures).

Since I don't have the tools or skills to mod my suspension or wire up fancy electronics like most of you, I get to spend my efforts on these more trivial bits.

 

Try compressed air.

 

Simple but genius. Now looking for an old set of ear buds.

 

I installed an Auxbeam panel in my truck a few weeks ago and didn't really like any of the options that I had for where the accessory wire would connect. Using the add-a-fuse either the system would be always on (good for when I want to use some of my lights around camp while the truck is off, bad for long term), or only on when the truck is running. Decided to install a 3-position SPDT switch that I could select between the two options, and then spent some time modeling and 3D printing an insert that the switch could drop into to live in one of the empty spaces. Best of both worlds!

 

Thanks for the follow-up! Yes, even if the company truck (V-2) was deemed ‘at fault’, the blue Hyundai’s (V-1) speed was likely a ‘contributing factor’. Glad you are being covered and hopefully minimal out-of-pocket on your end.

More inspiration to get my front and rear cameras installed!

 

Got around to adding some color to the grille;



Great price and quality, highly recommend purchasing from Tacos4Cheap https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/color-matching-pro-grille-letter-overlays.762578/

 

I just put 15 gallons of premium fuel into the tank!

 

New pads and rotors at 77k miles
Oil change also. Wash n wax

 

nice !!!!

gf in the passenger seat?