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I remember reading the pelfreys were thinner metal than the arb. Haven't seen one up close. But I love my color matched ARB.

I do like the look and features of the pelfrey. Winch cutout, light bar cutout, Recovery points, etc. But at the time, he was only making them for the newer designed front end. Not sure on the steel difference. If all things were equal. I probably would still choose the ARB. It has grown on me. Plus all the airbag testing they did on them gives me a little more faith in the bumper.

 

I would kindly disagree with that, as I think there are a lot of fans of Demello as well. One advantage to the ARB is that ARB does significant crash testing of their products. They're really the only Tacoma bumper manufacturer that does that and has the facilities to do so. So, you're getting a bumper that has been crash tested, proven to work with airbags, and does not cause any other "legal" issues. Some folks don't care about that, while others do.

- Mark

 

Yeah, Quantico has a auto hobby shop. They are open from Wed-Sun. They're good to go and very knowledgeable. Check em out.

 

Yep. This.

 

DO also uses thinner steel than some of the other vendors, however, I like my DO overall. Wasn't happy with some customer service aspects / quality control, but it's water under the bridge now.

Matt

 

The past couple of mornings I've had an issue with my parking brake light staying on. I release the brake, put the truck in D and drive forward normally and it starts beeping at me. If I bump the pedal once or twice it turns off and I know that the brakes themselves are not sticking.

Bad sensor maybe?

 

Check with namyo. Had the same or at least similar problem

 

Wires loose?

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/2nd-gen-tacomas/313506-abs-parking-brake-light.html#post8109308

 

Is this open to Marines only? I have been looking for a shop to rent out for a while.

 

Anyone here have an aftermarket radio antenna (not CB antenna..) that has good reception? I need to get something shorter than the stock one, but I listen to the radio a decent amount so I don't want a shitty $5 wal mart special. Haha I'm getting tired of that boing noise everytime I enter the parking garage at work and it slaps the sign.

 

It's available to military active, reserve, retired only. Of course, if you have a military buddy....he/she can get you in no problem. Their fees are very, very reasonable, but they won't work on heavy aftermarket stuff for you....you'll have to do the work yourself. But it's nice to have all the tools necessary instead of running out to the store for it.

 

Seen the sensor come loose causing this pain in the butt to replace

 

I'll take it to the dealer then one of these days, still have 3 years left on the warranty.

In other news, new intake!!!!

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Well, got rear ended on the way home from work today. The truck took it like a champ. My d-ring hitch put a nice hole in the other guys camry. The bumper is a tiny but cockeyed but otherwise looks fine.. I've got an appointment to drop it off Friday morning at Toyota for them to check it out.

 

That happened to mine once, my bumper took the whole front end of the 2014 Escape. I have a dent, but nothing more.

 

Yea I have a tiny paint chip and the passenger side of the bumper is pushed in about 1/2" but nothing more. Can't even really tell haha I'm just taking it to Toyota to make sure it didn't fuck up anything underneath. I dont think it did though.. the bumper and hitch are still level and the hitch isn't bent at all.

 

Have them look at the back of the frame. I had an altima rear end me and it ended up doing a lot of damage once a body shop looked it over.

 

When is the next meet?

 

I was thinking the 25th at Buffalo Wing Factory if everyone is cool with that.

 

Yea I am. I don't think it did anything (it wasn't even hard enough to make my seatbelt lock) but I want to know if the bumper mont just slid on a bolt or if a bracket or something snapped because the passenger side is about a half inch closer to the end of the bed than the drivers side. I didn't see anything and the Toyota collision center manager I talked to didn't see anything but he said they will take the bumper off and unbolt the entire hitch assembly to inspect everything that could have been damaged.

Works for me! The one by fair oaks?