What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Morimoto XB Evo+ Foglights

https://youtu.be/PCKF3liaVfo

 

Glad you figured it out!

Those rack things on each side are cool.

If I ever get my plates to drive on the beach, I could put some equipment on the sides.

Those Extended Yakimas are expensive but look great!

 

The SR got some new shoes! 255/75r17’s on some Sport wheels I’ve had in the barn since last June! Happy Camper here

 

Best looking tire tread hands down. So how is the noise? Any tread hum that stands out?

 

I've had the new Duratrac RT 255/75r17 for about 7000 miles and they are really quiet for a RT tire. I would say about the same noise level as my Toyo Open Country 3, my roof rack makes more noise than the tires.
I think once I get to 40k miles with them will be the real test on how good they are.

 

I'm curious what made it worth the change to you?

 

I added OEM LED headlights and DD ss3 fogs(pro model) w/ amber backlight.

Will post pics soon. Headlights are incredible and fogs are outstanding. Couldn’t be more pleased with it.

 

You are certainly not alone, but personally, I don't get all the Hype and concern for blown tires. I have had several, even at high speed, and even had a wheel fall off while at speed, and all were plenty controllable to manage a safe stop on the side of the road. I do not baby my vehicles, or baby the driver (except when the driver is my wife). Anyhow, in my experience, a blown tire is more manageable than a surprise ice patch or snow drift, and those are much more prevalent than a blown tire. To each their own, but I have also run a bunch of plugged tires, and not yet had one of those let me down.

In NY a station can't plug, but can patch from the inside.

 

the WORST that could happen is a very very slow leak if the patch/plug didnt hold

 

A fresh razor blade in the middle of 2 day old advan (rear), a grappling hook in my 50 series 15 inch rim rear tire, tire shop couldn’t believe that one. Picked that up at night.

 

So, it is worth trying how it is if it blows because it is "safe to stop-always"? Glad to hear you were kept safe by now. I rather pay the $250 for the tire and mounting. It is also no guarantee that it will not blow sometime, but risk is lower I say. Not sure if tire repairs are same quality as new tires. Will have to do research on that. As far as I read, all recommend the plug as temporary fix only. Had 3 tires punctured on my Tacomas since 2019. All replaced - lots of mods I could have bought for that money...

 

10% loss of air pressure in a tire can be dangerous. You will not even notice 10% loss. Hope you have TMPS-which only come on when the tire pressure is critically low (plus a few psi safety).
What Tire Pressure is Too Low? Understanding Safe Limits

 

Long handled (12" or so) needle nose pliers went through a brand new AT tire handle 1st and beat the shit out of the rear quarter panel... A, AA Duracell battery went in the center of the tread and from the compression, blew the center out of the battery, could still see the coppertop outer shell... Big rig glow plug in the tread... a office chair wheel, I took it home and installed it in one I keep in the garage...long metal stake (like a RR tie) also went through the tread and the wheel, destroyed the wheel... the list goes on and on... lol

 

I asked the dealer I bought mine from and they printed out a set of instructions for me; something to keep in mind if you buy more accessories.

 

10% is 3psi and you wouldn't even know it and not DANGEROUS

 

12" piece of rebar got caught inside the rear wheel well and forced through both sidewalls. A piece of someone else's CV joint. The tire shop had no sympathy for me on that; said that someone else had a worse day than I had.

Road hazard warranties seem to be extremely effective. I've never had to replace a tire when I bought it.

I did make my kid get road hazard for his car; he has 45 series tires and potholes jump out in front of him (so he says). He's on a first name basis with the folks at the local Big O.

 

if you don't know about tire repairs then don't second guess them, you just scare others that may need a tire repaired, i plug ALL my own tires and have NEVER had one that didn't hold and have what you call a "murderous blowout"

ps: a quality plug is a MUST

 

Hooke road one is just plain poor quality. Screw holes never lined up very well, it doesn't fit the contours of the tailgate it just goes over them. It's too thick to be able to use a tailgate gap seal like roxblox and the most annoying thing is it warps in the sunlight so the tailgate is difficult to close. Maybe they are better now, I don't know. But the one I have is a piece of shit.



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No noise to speak of but I did notice when I crossed bridges that they make a different pitch on concrete.