What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

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Can you (or someone) fill me in on bed stiffeners? Where/When do they actually help out and add support? Only real thing I get worried about is loading a quad. I’ve never cared but now with a new truck I want to take good care of it

 

Finally got my windows tinted today.
20% on front and 35% on factory stained rear.

Crazy how different it looks compared to the day I brought her home.

 

Couple additions to the truck. Had before just got re powder coated and switch to the leather

 

Not today, but ditch lights:





Today I put in Rigid Ignite lights in the rear for backing up or lighting campgrounds or whatever:

 

They were meant for hard caps. When offroading and you are uneven, hard cap doesn't flex with the bed as much so it gets misaligned and can't open the tailgate when on uneven ground. They also would help if you have roof top tent like the quote above, not so much for the weight, but for the same concept as hard caps. I am just having bed bars fabricated into the bed to act as stiffeners AND bars to hold my tent.

 

What's the main color on them katzkins?

 

I just put on an intermittent wiper switch today and it works very well

 

Where did you purchase them? Assuming they turn on/off with the overhead lights, where are you tapping from?

 

So what I would need if nervous about loading and unloading heavy gear is like a tailgate support

 

Yes, but that is some heavy gear... I had around 400 lbs on my tailgate before (people standing on it), and it didn't even bend. If you are really nervous about it, just upgrade the line/cable. Like I said though, more than 400 lbs is a lot of weight for gears and on top of that, it'll probably bend before completely breaking so you can use an end cap reinforcement like this:

http://www.kbvoodoo.com/shop/toyota-tacoma-tailgate-cap-system-fits-years-2016-2017

 

If you replace your back-up lights with something like "

$10 LUYED 3200 Lumens 921 LED Bulb for Backup Light Reverse Lights Ultra High Power 3020 30-SMD Chipsets 912 906 T15 W16W Bulb,6500K White(New Upgrade,Pack of 2)

LUYED Extremely Bright 1600 Lumens Backup Reverse Lights 921 912 W 16W 3020 30-EX Chipsets, Xenon White, No Hyper Flash" you'll never notice the light from the newly-replaced LED plate lights in your reverse camera! Works for me...

 

Can you send a link where to buy the gasshole cover? I've always thought it was weird Toyota didn't put a holder on the gas door to begin with.

 

With me and the quad I’ve got about 700 lbs riding up the ramps/tailgate but I don’t know the physics and math of where all the pressure is going. Probably nervous for nothing

 

Well these came in the mail today.

 

Here Jeff, they're live now!

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/the-gasshole™-fuel-cap-holder.534459/

 

The tailgate is weakest in the middle. With the quad, all the weight is on the outside and you never have all that weight on there at one time.

 

Oh it's for a quad, ya you are good. Like the above post says, middle is weak so I thought when you said gears, you were talking about it sitting on the middle of the tail gate which is why I said that's some heavy gears.

 

What kind of hood is that? Connected to air filter or faux scoop?