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

I'm surprised Calmini is still even in business, I remember them from my Isuzu days and they sucked back then too.

 

Repairs look great.

Reminds me when I had my brand new 1992 4X4 Toyota Truck. My pride and joy as a young man. I had 2 fender benders during the 14 years I owned it. I went off on on both guys on each incident as it was both 100% their faults. Owning these trucks you can't help feel very protective about them. However, it's only a hunk of metal with insurance. I have reflected back and did feel that I may have over reacted. Heat of the moment and your pride and joy gets damaged through no fault of your own can get the better of one self.

 

Stand up for yourselves!

I know this doesn’t apply to everyone but I figured I’d share my story nonetheless.

I was given a quote for a frame plug install (part of Toyotas frame rust prevention servicing package which many of you received free of charge, the other part being the interior of the frame ((for second gen Tacomas)) treated with a fluid film before being plugged). Toyota’s cost of the fluid film treatment, $1000.00 was too steep for my blood so I had Crown fluid film my truck for $150.00 instead (they did a stellar job) and commissioned Toyota to install the frame plugs. I was quoted 1.5 hours and a price of $220.00 for the maintenance, the plugs themselves ran me $80something. While I was being quoted the technician who handles all of the frame prevention maintenance orders happened to be standing next to the service associate and said something along the lines of “If you do it today I’ll have you out of here with A QUICKNESS, I do this all the time.” I had other plans so scheduled the servicing a week later. The job ended up taking two hours and as I sat down to pay the servicing associate handed me a bill for $290.00. I was expecting the possibility of a higher fee as the job took 30 minutes longer. If my truck had been in for mechanical purposes I probably would have taken the increase on the chin but as the job itself was merely plugging plastic plugs into and around the frame along with the technician boasting in front of me how easy the job was along with my original quote…. I politely held firm on the original time servicing quote, met with some initial resistance but stood fast and left the dealership paying no less than what was originally quoted. I know it’s only $70.00 but I feel it’s important to pick and choose your battles and I felt this was a battle worth engaging in.
In this day and age I feel it’s more important than ever to assert yourself and to always stand up for yourself. I wasn’t being bullied or belittled or anything but I felt as though the dealership was taking me for a bit of a ride.
Anyways, thanks for reading.

 

Its sickening. Trying to get my refund as we speak. They are playing games and im having to toe this line until I have my cash back.

 

No idea, I did mine for separation of air flow.

 

Yup 2013 MY.

 

I'd send that back. The writing is all backwards! Dang! Someone got there first!

 

Finally got a tire balance/rotation...I would do it myself but BJ's does it for free...and I kept forgetting to make an appointment because they were booking 3-4 weeks out!
209,000

Now when will it be warm enough to do my spark plugs...

 

Every guy who's been kicked out of the GaHden'

 

That's the evil thing about hydrolock. You may have caused irreparable damage and won't truly know it until it punches holes through the oil pan. I had that happen to my T100 in Panama, Central America, in 1990. Survived being flooded, but about a week later while driving down the road it blew apart. It was a hard lesson to learn. Drain and flush to see if you have water in the oil. Water passing by the rings is a good indiction your engine was compromised.

 

From 2019:

DA: Lawsuit against Calmini Products claims customers never received purchased items

https://www.turnto23.com/news/local...aims-customers-never-received-purchased-items

https://www.clubfrontier.org/threads/buyer-beware-calmini-is-a-terrible-company.358682/

 

I beleive it.

Update, they were using wrong phone number to refund back my money through zelle. So I have to redact that they didnt send the money, they just didnt send it to me.

 

Probably sent the refund to themselves. Don’t believe a thing they tell you!

 

Im just ready to move on with life. This has been going on since october

 

finally got my wheels and tires on after waiting since end of october for them. couldn’t be happier with how the truck turned out.

 

Probably their MO to begin with.... stretch it out till you lose interest and they win.

 

1300$ floating around is alot for me!

 

Cleaned the MAF and throttle body. Didn’t get an after picture but here’s the before. I don’t know if it’s been cleaned before (I’ve never actually seen/cleaned a throttle body before) but at 190k I figured I’d take a look at it.

 

Was time to get organized! Added a

$17 Cocoon CPG5BK GRID-IT!® Accessory Organizer - Small 10.25" x 5.125" (Black)

Grid-it to the cover then designed and printed my own organizer for the console. Age-old mini mods but rad nonetheless. And a nice place to keep my home-made 3D printed seat belt silencers Used a soldering iron to melt down the trim and rivets to hold it to the cover...didn't bother with the velcro method.

 

I need to do this. My center console is a mess