What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

45k maintenance, oil, filter, cabin filter, air box filter clean and rotation.
Found a 2.5" roofing nail sticking out and the k03's only have 5k miles. Tire shop was able to plug it on the inside and rebalance. Thought was going to need to make it a spare and spend another $320 to replace it Maybe later!

 

i did it and they look amazing!

 

In Toronto, you can't take public transport on Sundays if you've eaten garlic

 

Vampires are only allowed to use public transport on Sundays and they want to be courteous to vampires. Vampires ... and me ... hmmm ... are they trying to tell me something?

 

the pic is the plastic one......wtf

 

It’s the aluminum, in your post, it’s just dull!

 

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I was going to suggest a good eye dr...

 

Installed the floormat retaining clips on the passenger side of a 2017 to hold down the nicer floormats for a 2018+

 

I see what you did there . Going to have to try something like that.

 

I didn’t want to mess with swapping out the whole radio but I did want CarPlay in my 17. So I picked up one of the carabc units. Resolution is rough but I don’t need to pay that much attention to it

 

Did the same, was super cheap to do. Yeah the resolution isn't great. Just found out that Hamilton sells a similar unit that has full resolution, but for $350. I only spent $80 on the generic unit.

 

Just use the plug from the original housing. Same one.

 

I bought a new plug, but my problem was the plug torqued a little too tight to the housing so I needed a new plug to begin with unless I wanted to delay the oil change by the time required to unlock the drain plug ... new housing and plug both this time. I will get around to the unlock the old assembly in a couple of days.

 

Installed some 265/70r17 Cooper STT Pros. On a 17x9 -12 wheel, it is very tight but no rubbing on stock suspension.

 

Looks great, very cool..

That is a lot of weight to balance the wheel/tires, they should have broke the tire back down and rotate it 180 degrees on the wheel... Hopefully you don't have any vibrations...

 

It is a lot of weight but on the contrary. They ride much smoother than the Terra Grappler G2s they replaced. No vibrations so far up to 75mph.

 

My Terra Grappler G3's are regularly taken over 80MPH with no vibration, love those tires. Did have to get them rebalanced a second time but man after that they've been fantastic.

 

That's good... The truck looks bad ass, tires fill up the wheel wells very nicely... love the look...

 

After 4.4 years I agreed to have the brake fluid flush along with oil change etc. Didn't expect anything once the brake fluid service was done.

Picked the truck up and did a quick under hood inspection and oil level check to make sure all was good before I left.

First thing I noticed was that the brakes don't grab anymore. When you apply the brakes it seems nice and normal now. Before, the brakes would be a bit hard to modulate to brake smoothly. Brake application with the truck would be slow to engage, a little more pressure to compensate and they would grab too much. Then you would have to back off a bit and re-apply brake pressure. A little quirk that I got used to.

Now you can easily modulate the brakes. Strange. Never had that before with prior vehicles that I owned. Never mind all the vehicles I've driven in 40 years.

Also, did the easy stuff myself that they recommended needing to be replaced.

 

Moved the OEM TRD Sport tires & sensors to a set of 4 runner wheels that I prefer the appearance of. Anybody interested in purchasing a set of Sport wheels and caps?, excellent condition with vinyl overlays on the machined spokes.