What Have You Done To Your 2nd Gen Tacoma Today?

Detailed the engine for the first time ever.

Easy peasy, looks great.

 

Damn. Mine wasn't that clean when it was new!

 

I hope my Bora spacers look that good. They should be here next tuesday.

 

With oil change and tire rotation ~ 2 hours

 

Installed my pods finally

 

before and after

 

Yeah, it either takes a while to find the bugs or the 2014's are perfect.

http://www.toyotaproblems.com/tsbs/Tacoma/

To be honest, the 2014 contains a lot of parts from earlier year Tacos, so any TSB effecting those parts will carry over to the new model. There are a bunch of TSB listing multi year's, including 2014. You just have to dig a bit deeper.

 

Here's the file for those that need it... It's a .PDF

 

Is there a loud squealing, and some white smoke?

 

So sexy after her bath!!! That's all I did today!

 

Kings n camburgs

 

I love the way single cabs look

 

I just got a new '15. I didn't like the 31" antenna -- wanted something shorter. There are many options. You can go with these tiny stubby ones, but they get bad reviews for reception, and I think they look retarded. You can also get 7", 12", 14", 21" etc. I decided I wanted it much shorter, but didn't want to risk losing reception. I ordered this 12" from Amazon. Takes about 2 minutes to install. It looks really nice, and reception is fine.

The amazon page is cool. If you click on 12" the picture changes to show a truck with 12". And it changes for all the lengths so you can see what it will look like. I think 12" was a good trade-off between shorter, but good reception.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NUDGAAS?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=od_aui_detailpages00

 

Is the reception as good with the 12" as it was with the stock one?

 

Adjusted the fog lights I installed Sunday

 

This is not the exact numbers, but the way my radio geek bud explained it is that the FM stations we listen to work on a wavelength that favors antennas in increments if 12", so 12, 24, etc. so I chopped my stock one to 24 and it works just as well as when it was 31"

 

ooh pretty! Hey what's the back spacing on your wheels?

 

I had about 10 stations tuned in. I live 50 miles north of Denver, and a few are "big" Denver stations. They all sound perfect. There was one one-off station (not even sure why I added it, maybe playing a good song when I checked) and now it is a bit fuzzy and I'll drop it. So it is not "as good" but it is "good enough" for me. I think reception will be very situational. Some people will hardly notice. Some might find 1/2 their stations go away. I went in thinking "might work, might not." I think if you are not getting "fringe" stations from a long distance, it should work fine.

But I *really* like the 12" over 31".

I live in CO, I bet when I go into the mountains I'll lose stations sooner. But I can live with that. This is why I have a USB thumb-drive with music, and bluetooth.

 

Guess I got lucky picking a 12" antenna . Works fine for me. Not as good as 31", but plenty good enough.

 

I installed Rigid LED lights in my new Pelfreybilt bumper.