What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

Per Monte's recommendation, the Uniden 520XL is what I will be going with.

 

All new accessory belts. Done.
Sway bar delete. Done.
Oil change. Done.
Tire rotation. Done.
Check suspension fasteners. Done.

Rides much better...had a few loose nuts on the suspension.

 

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fair enough haha

Ben had a cobra before he went with the 520. It never worked as good as the 520 did. Im sure he will say something when he gets on tonight

 

It is oem. Aisin is one of the largest manufacturers of factory Toyota parts. Your getting oem parts before they even go to Toyota. If you look on the water pump you can see where Toyota is ground off the Aisin pump since it's not being sold through Toyota.

 

Any recommendations on carpet kits? Ive heard good things about stock interiors

 

If I was replacing my carpet, I'd replace it with this...

http://www.auto-interior.com/moldedvinyl.htm

Here's a couple guys that did it

http://www.augiesadventures.com/the-truck/

http://www.yotatech.com/f116/installed-vinyl-floor-my-truck-216517/

 

Thanks man

 

Here's another member who did it:

 

I'd imagine vinyl would get very slick with snow/water on it.

 

It sounds like the vinyl kits dont fit all that well on the transmission hump?

 

Agreed. But I have rubber floor mats in my truck, so thats not an issue for me

 

I'd rather have wet vinyl than wet carpet... Plus I've got weathertech's anyways.

Vinyl would be much easier to clean as well.

 

Here's the one YamahaDave (I think that's who) installed in his truck. He said it fit like a glove.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1995-2004-T...el:Tacoma&hash=item1e66227883&vxp=mtr&afsrc=1

Obviously you can choose different colors.

I had different color samples of cutpile sent to me. High quality stuff... even comes with a thin layer of sound deadener on the backside.

 

Which color samples did you get?

 

I'll have to go look and see what their terms are exactly but I believe it's charcoal and dark gray.

Was leaning towards charcoal. Beautiful color. Near, but not, black.

 

I think if I do it I'm going to stick with tan to match the interior. Plus tan hides dirt well anyways.

 

How well does it match our blue/grey interior?

 

If you going to vinyl it..just rip it all out and bed line the bitch.

 

Upon further review.. the carpet samples I received are from Auto Custom Carpets, Inc

www.accmats.com

I received the charcoal cutpile (item 897) and graphite cutpile (7701) samples.

Both with the sound deadener material on the back.

They also have vinyl flooring too.

 

My entire interior, lest the upper fawking dash panel, is black.

My seats are black with charcoal-ish accents.

It would match my interior beautifully.