What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

I bought my truck out here in Germany and haven't been able to as much as I would like. Germans don't like trucks off roading in their area. Just shipped it to Washington so I'll get more out of her there.

 

Absolutely correct. Our "new" 2016 Tacoma and Ford batteries died at the same time around 18k miles. They both just completely died without any warning. No slow starting or anything. The battery in my work commuter was a 5 year battery that was still good after 7 years. You cannot buy a standard battery with more than a 3 year warranty now. They no longer sell batteries with a 5 year warranty (not sure about AGM).

 

Dang, now that's a great offer, and that light bar is sweet. Not sure when I'm going to be in the cities area next. it's about 225 miles from here to Burnsville.

 

Well let me know if your in the area anytime. The stuff is just sitting in the garage. Ill let you know next time I head up north (I assume your up north)

 

I'll let you know. Ya, I'm up on the range east of Virginia.

 

don’t your legs/feet hit the fire extinguisher?

 

Eibach TRD PRO 1” lift kit installed. Before and after pic below. Comparison pic of the eibach and TRD Pro spring side by side.

No more rubbing with 265/75/16 on 16x8 -20 offset wheels.

 

too bad we can’t get the Panasonic OEM 4 Runner battery in the Taco. Mine lasted 6 years

 

Probably depends if battery was made on a Wednesday or a Friday also. I have a 2017 with 55k and still on original OEM battery knock on wood

 

@nhpoke @YellowSnow

I have similar setup and it does not interfere (though my handle is on the inside). Will update w photo.

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Added Empyre Off-Road domed TRD Decals to my 2016-2019 17" TRD Sport wheels I'll be running this winter.

IMG_9955 by Mike M, on Flickr

A detail photo showing the small tabs that hold the existing Toyota emblem in. They simply push out with light finger pressure, so I'd recommend against prying these off unless you don't want to pull the wheel off the truck, or pull the center cap off the wheel.
IMG_9956 by Mike M, on Flickr

Backside detail of the Toyota emblem.
IMG_9957 by Mike M, on Flickr

The part number 20722-00 does not show up on Toyota's part number database, oddly enough.

All (4) off ready for decals.
IMG_9958 by Mike M, on Flickr

The decals themselves
IMG_9959 by Mike M, on Flickr

And complete
IMG_9961 by Mike M, on Flickr

I used the "wet" method for the first three decals to get a feel for how to position and work with them, but gave up and just stuck the fourth one on since I had an idea of where to place it.

I'm curious how these will hold up to Northeast salt spray this winter, but it will be a welcome change from the stock emblem. I'm not a big emblem guy on trucks for some reason (though I did love the STi decals all over my old STi) but I do have a TRD truck, so I think we're good here.

 

$0.00 High clearance exhaust mod.

 

Bye bye Chrome grille.

A $20 Craigslist spare grille, a scotchbrite pad scuff, dusting of self etching primer and several coats of SEM Flexible Black paint and the grille matches the lower trim pieces much better now.

 

Doing a tire rotation and as my 1.5 ton aluminum HF jack Simply could not lift my Tacoma. ( I tried using a 2 4x4 blocks and the jack pissed hydraulic fluid) I bought a HF Daytona 3 ton. that was on sale for 149.00.. .. I should be G2G now

 

Knock on wood twice. Mine died before it wa 2 yrs old. The 2nd OEM I had it replaced with started giving me trouble about 1 year later. Toyota did a deep cycle charge on it and claimed that it was all good. I replaced it for piece of mind about 2 months later.

 

Installed RCI rock sliders

 

I’ve found that the ladies go, “ oooh nice,” and touch it… and a darker color will cut glare down on the reflection from the dash to the windshield.

 

Made a locator bracket for the PSR that’s bolted to the stock intake for the HPS Intake tube; I hopefully receive in the future, that doesn’t look like it has a mount for the sensor.
2.7

 

Added a TRD skid plate, some FSW replica wheels (matte gunmetal) and gave her a bath.