What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Not today but yesterday. Drove it for the first time since a bought it, sat at 12 miles for a week lmao. Took the dealership lettering off the tailgate, fabric guarded the interior and coated the bed plastics.

 

Got my truck back Friday. The dealership works with a place called Classic Soft Trim in Wilmington, MA. They installed an aftermarket moonroof. Most people wouldn't even know it wasn't oem, except maybe for the placement of the controls.

 

Wow! I wish my TRD OD access cab came with a moonroof like my 2001 did.

 

I wished my ‘17 did too like my 2002, it was great to use whenever we went on trips, but my cab mounted RTT kinda ruined that idea. His looks nice.

 

How much did that set you back?

 

Backlit to match the interior?

 

I was too tired to find my order last night, but I went with the RAV4 mirror when I did mine. No BSM and heated.

 

Unfortunately the frame part of the mirror was busted up too so I ended up having to grab the whole assembly

 

It was $1999, through the dealership. About $250-300 more than if I took it to the shop myself. The price difference was worth it to me to be able to roll it into the financing and have a free rental car for the 3 days my truck was gone.

Backlit yes, matching, I'm not sure honestly. I'd have to go check. The switch is lit up blue whenever the truck is on.

 

Nah it's cement, in some lighting it does look like lunar rock though

 

Yeah thats weird it def looks like the Lunar Rock. Either way it looks nice!

 

got them off Amazon.

$50 Standard (11"x15") Mud Flaps - Compatible with 2016-2023 Tacoma

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B092MV1FYZ?ie=UTF8

 

It was already on the truck when I bought it. Not sure if it was factory or dealer installed. I'll have to look at the window sticker. It's on the hood, all the painted areas in the front bumper and grille, side mirror caps, and front door handle cups. It's also on the rear fenders in the usual spots that toyota puts it to protect from rocks and road stuff. Here are some pics where you can see the edges of the PPF. the front bumper is the most impressive because they hid the edges in some places so well I can't even see it.

 

Out for a Weekend drive. Tacoma spotting...

 

Removed the chrome badging. Like the clean look much better.

 

No not really. I didn't do a write up on it. I can get photo's later, I just painted it yesterday so I didn't have time to install it after paint.
Materials used:
-Channel iron from an old bed frame.
-Box Tubing from Homedepot
-1.25" 1/16 wall thickness, for the main tubing
-.50" for the cross bars. (Should have used .75" but HD was sold out.

 

Test fit my long awaited 1up double duty two bike rack. Took 31 days from the time I put myself on the waitlist to my door step. I went from Kuat Sherpa 2.0 to this. What an awesome build! Well worth the wait. I just need to test fit my MTB that’s in the shop for rear derailleur problem.

 

Nice. I found those tires have been great. No issues in the snow, off-road or normal driving. I'd get them again.

12Tac

 

Said I’d never let the dogs in the truck. Not because I don’t want it dirty. But because they will scratch the shit out of my door panels. Have to take them to the beach and have no interest in riding 7 hours in the girlfriends Nissan Rogue . So a 17 dollar moving blanket for the bottom (seats folded down) and a couch cover that I cut in half and poked holes in for suction cups. 25 bucks and the couch cover I had. I’m not as worried now.


Gonna poke holes in the blanket for small carabiners to attach to the front head rests and where the foldable rear seats clip into the back of the truck to secure it even more.

 

What tires are you running? I’m about up for a new set and those look good.