Inferno Thread

Just dropped these in today. It's cold out.. well, sort of. 45 degrees. Bartact Black, with deviated orange stitching. Quality is pretty good. Not OEM production quality, but material quality is more durable. I got these so I could get rid of the blanket I kept back there to protect the seats from the pups. I'll give them a few weeks to stretch out and then snug things down again. I expect that the shipping creases that are visible will smooth out pretty quickly in the Texas heat (if we ever get any). I haven't decided if I want to do the cutouts for the headrests or not. I tend to not use them for more visibility. I'll probably end up doing them after I snug everything down.

Install was pretty quick. Perhaps 30-45 minutes max? Solo. Had to disconnect the center passenger seatbelt tie down and run it through the cover and then secure it again. No big deal. My only complaint is about the deviated stitching. It's there, and color match is actually pretty good. But for the additional cost there was very little of it. Probably half of what is there isn't apparent because of where it is.

 

My wife said any new Tacoma had to have heated seats, and I was insistent on the 6 speed manual. Let me tell you, finding a TRD Off Road with the Premium option AND manual was not easy, but my dealer made it happen! Finally, after a month-long wait, it's home. In less than 24 hours after taking delivery I've added Tyger nerf bars, Bugflector II, Truxedo Truxport tonneau cover, Westin bed mat and a few esoteric goodies. Falken Wildpeaks in 265/75/16's would have been installed yesterday but the tire co. got the wrong size (17's). When it warms up above 50 I'll put on AVS in-channel window visors. We're off to a good start!

 

Pics...... or it didn't happen

 

And it's inferno, right. You didn't say. Very nice.

 

Did you do the fronts too ? Pics ?

 

My son came by today, I told him he has the right truck, wrong color. He's actually had it a while, it's a 2001 prerunner.

 

Yes, thanks, I forgot the best part but I thought it was a given: Its INFERNO RED!!!

 

Mind some pics of the molle panel in action?

 

Hate to correct you. I like to think of mine as Inferno Orange, but alas, it is neither.

Beauty of this color is that it is sometimes orange and sometimes red. Most of the time it just shines somewhere in between.

 

Just INFERNO, no red.

You need to change your signature too! Oh and, Welcome to the best color Tacoma there is thread!

 

Let’s see some pics!!!

 

do you still use your wilco hitch?

 

Wilco hitch? I think you have me confused with someone else

 

lol my bad

 

Sorry, pups only ride in the back seats so that’s all I covered. I considered getting the seat panels in orange, but chickened out. But I can take more pics and closeups if anybody wants them.

 

These look nice - I like the color matched stitching. Interested to hear your thoughts after using them with the dogs.

 

Will do. We have short haired, and long haired. Really long. Those are easy to vacuum out. The short haired whippets however.... those hairs stick in the fabric terribly. I’ll know in a few weeks if these hold hair any worse than stock. I have a 4hp car vac and it takes a bit of work still with stock covers. We don’t really take ours to the fields so it's not so much about dirt, but rather not poking holes or otherwise damaging the stock ones. I’m probably overkill, but oh well.

 

Eh, I'm the same way with the truck now. It's better to just play it safe from the start. I have the carhartt rears on order because I read nothing but good things when researching. In my previous/other car I had no cover at all for a little bit and there is still fur in the cloth from my husky mix I can't get out unless I hand pick one by one.

Are you doing anything for door panels?