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

Ridge Grapplers

 

Headlights look great!
Where can I buy them?
Any aftermarket issues with them?
Nice truck,
thanks

 

Sorry man I don't. Just lined up the hawse to clear the lip of the opening of the bumper, marked with a sharpie and took a step drill bit to it, then took stainless hardware and mounted it. The opening of the bumper lines up perfectly with the hawse. Synthetic line (once I get it) will always ride on the hawse, zero chance of it "catching" on the bumper lip. Hope this answers any questions

 

Glad he shared this. I recently ordered plates so I will be definitely installing them to make it tougher to steal.

 

You can get them from tacomabeast

 

scrapped the bed.

 

Purchased yesterday 4 tires MUD CLAW Radial M/T extreme traction, used but in very good condition. 285/70 r 17.
Tires made in the US are very expansive here, and I got them for 1/3 of the price.

Installed them , and tried them returning home (300 miles highway + 200 miles unpaved road)
I"m quite satisfied .
Slightly quiter and smoother than the Cooper STT PRO I had before.
They look great too.

Now, I still have to try them in mud

 

The company I work for owns the rights to those tires (as in, they "make them" but Cooper actually builds them).

So if you liked your Coopers you should like these too, since they come off the same assembly line

 

Two weeks in, I totally dig these Michelins. We've had a lot of rain and I can't get them to break loose except in the most ridiculously ill-advised (yet carefully and responsibly controlled!) circumstances. The OE tires were sketchy in the wet from day one, and getting much worse since about 20K. I chalked it up as inevitable, empty bed RWD pickup, just tolerate it. Not so. I also got to run some miles on gravel/dirt roads and they were very good there as well. A little easier to skid (I was having fun), but good grip and braking as needed. The 500 highway miles to and from that dirt road were also much more pleasant and quieter than I've been used to.

Still getting used to the new look, less macho in appearance but well worth the trade off. And so worth the money, which was really not bad, in keeping with all other decent tires I considered. $820 installed, and I even got my $70 rebate from Discount Tire in the mail already.

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edited to add: No discernible difference in MPG. Still just 17ish combined.

 

Did a little spring cleaning and got them all cleaned up.




Finally got around to installing the Lamin X on the fogs I've had sitting around for months. #jdmasfuck lol

 

Nice!

C'mon over, I'm next!

 

Figured I would ask everyone in here. Got my tires rotated a while ago. And as soon as I got them rotated I developed a shake in the steering around 50-60mph. Immediately took it back to Toyota and have taken it back several times. They can’t find anything wrong at all. All the tires have been road forced and rebalanced. All U joints checked. I’m at a loss. Anyone got any ideas???

 

Found a great deal on a barely used cap. 8 hrs driving later!

 

I think it looks great on the truck, however, I get terrible reception with it. I was only able to listen to one of my preset stations so I'm going to be switching back to the original antenna.

 

Looks fantastic. I love those headlights...

 

thank you for this, I also like the look, but was wary of the reception

 

No Problem....

 

@Shmellmopwho installing my @Pelfreybilt HC bumper this morning.

The best part was my daughter and his daughter hit it off and had a blast playing together while we worked on the truck.
I think there will probably be more play dates in the future since I only live a few blocks from @Shmellmopwho

 

What headlights are those?

 

Was thinking about this myself. I really like my PIAA Ion Yellows, but they're 5+ years old and are bound to take a dump at some point.

How yellow is the light output?