What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Now that’s a nice taco butt. Clean. Thanks for helping me decide lol also a fellow Colorado taco!!

 

Thanks brother! Looks sweet. You have kings in the rear as well? Reservoir or nah?

 

Owning AlphaRex Nova series headlights and Pro series tail lights i can say im actually quite impressed by their output. For the headlights, so long as you take the time to align the headlight projection angle appropriately, you're gonna see a MAJOR improvement over OEM. For the tail lights, despite having the smoked black, they output just as much, if not more, than OEM. My only gripe is that they don't have LED reverse lights in the Pro series. The same can not be said for the new Luxx series though, as they are 100% full LED, with amber/red switchbacks for the turn indicators and driving lights.

As far as AlphaRex goes as a company, they have been wonderful to me with regards to warranty replacements on my headlights, and I'm sure would be as equally accommodating with their tail lights.

 

how attached to the BSM functions were you? I absolutely LOVE the cross traffic alerts when backing out from my driveway semi-blind (neighbor has a REALLY big bush that blocks my passenger side view when backing out). I really want to get a new bumper with a hidden hitch to help with departure angles a bit, as well as get a bumper mounted spare tire carrier, but the only company i know working on these is Apogee offroad, and they have really hit some setbacks with development on their dual swing-out BSM compatible bumper.

 

What did I do today?

Had a nail removed from front driver side tire. Lord only know where it got picked up at.

 

i'm with you, i could do without the BSM but LOVE the cross traffic alerts

 

Upgraded the decals

 

The alerts are nice but I didn't use them much. I turned BSM off for a couple weeks before I did the swap tp be sure.

 

In channel avs vent visors installed and rough country seat covers also installed... can't open my windows for 72hours but thats not a biggie.... also I unbolted the seats to get the bottom clips.. made it much easier... also if you find your bolt holes don't line up you probably moved one of your seat rails....took me 10 mins to figure out why they didn't line up...

If you don't want the AVS on your vents silicone spray on a rag removes them in like 5 seconds

 

Added the new splash gaurds i bought like 8 months ago from a TW member that made them. Sorry i dont remember his name.

It was a warm day here so i was able to do the rest of my cmc job. I still needed to cut the plastic fender liner. I used some waterproof gorilla brand tape/patch over the pinch seem (that had previously been painted over with under body coating) and used it to seal off the inner fender as well. Ive used this stuff before on some random home projects. Its been holding up great for those. Ill be interested to see how it does with salt and snow.

 

Great view and great road especially on a bike.

 

I'll see your nail and raise you a spring.

 

Beautiful coastline, very similar looking to Big Sur.

 

Got hit with an idiot tax today. (I'm the idiot )

 

Ordered Workhorse A/Ts from Tire Rack! Goodyear couldn't even supply the tire before the Rack! If you need a set grab em now before they're sold out again.

Goodyear had a April delivery projected.

 

interested in seeing how that tape holds up. I still have a gap in mine after the CMC.

 

maybe time for some: https://spottermirror.com/p/toyota/2016-2022-tacoma-with-bsm/

 

What happened?

 

I never understood why the price of a Tacoma didn't include an under hood light. Every car or truck I've owned had an under hood light, except this one.

 

It was me and a square body Chevy passing one another on a narrow PDX side street with cars parked on both sides.

Nobody yielded (there was room to squeeze by) and I failed to notice the work van I was passing had those towing mirrors (aka there wasn't room to squeeze by...) that stick six feet out from the side of the van... and smashed into it.

I checked how bad I messed the van up while I was snugging the note under their wiper and it seemed perfectly fine, not even a scuff. Still left a note since I did hit it, and who knows if something electrical got busted.

The Taco definitely lost this slapfight, though.

Thankfully the Meso signals are unharmed or this would be a tragedy! Instead I'm off the hook with a $79 mirror cap and ~$75 or whatever to replace the busted SpotterMirror.