What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Can’t wait to get out, first trip is mid April through GW forest to blue ridge on way down to Florida.

 

Good Deal, Thanks for the info!

 

My work surface is a piece of Sunboard off of eBay (0.5" X 12" X 48" Black UV Resistant HDPE, $32). It's attached with 3M Mounting Tape ($15 plastic Velcro) on every other rib of the tailgate liner. If you only use a couple of strips (like I did at first), when you brake it flies off into the bed. Something about Newton's Laws.

 

Nothing wrong with DIY. Many of my mods are and some I have shared in the BST thread.
Gar-Fab does ship to the US at a very reasonable cost.

 

thanks for the link I will be placing an order. Wonder if they would do a GB

 

Simple yet major upgrade!!

 

While I don't like the adversarial color choice, I do appreciate the reasons behind it. I think more people should consider semi-gloss, satin, and flat paint jobs/vinyl.

 

I looked online and most of the other colors were sold out but the 3m glossy red was just about everywhere if anything it was only 42$ and its easy to take off. With the help of a friend or two and a heat gun it goes on pretty easy.

 

Put together a dedicated set of snow tires this week, and was able to get them on today. Pro rims, Blizzak DM-V2s, and cloned sensors. It was a good day to test them out as well, huge difference! Now I just need to find an overlay or different center cap to get rid of the red TRD.
I’m guessing it’s wear and age (15k miles), but the Pirellis were sliding all around this winter, seemed way worse than last winter. Must have wore the points off of my 3 peak mountain snowflake.
Also did Tufskinz mud flaps, and pulled out my DDI seat jackers and replaced with just MMP brackets. I like the multi mount panel, but the seat jackers didn’t change much for me.

 

Yeah, I got mine prettied up for a road trip and gas is close to 4 bucks. Driving the wife's Corolla everywhere right now to save gas.

 

Well, putting one in a Prius would be stupid!

 

Today I put white paint on the pointer/arrow of the climate control knobs and painted the other parts that look like pointers black….I always look at them and think WTF were they thinking…I know I am far sighted but still it’s confusing for the visually challenged…

 

Wheeels! And love em

 

Got the RCI skids in. The transmission skid was a PITA by myself. I was able to get my finger in between the front skid and the frame to lift the nylon spacer and slide the transmission skid forward but no luck on the drivers side. Then a lightbulb lit up over my head and I reached in my pocket and grabbed my keys; the tailgate key with the weird squared off end was designed for the job! After that all I can say is get the carriage bolt done on the drivers side first, PITA! Glad that it’s done. Might take it to Hollister Hills tomorrow and try it out.

 

Look at TVD Vinyl Decals. He's a vendor here. Had mine on a year so far without issue.

https://tvdvinyldecals.com/

https://www.tacomaworld.com/forums/tvd-vinyl-decals.249/

 

Looked better with them.

 

There's a lot of things about the truck that make me thing "WTF were they thinking" and not the least of which are the pointers on the HVAC controls.

 

Let me know when you want to get it dirty again! Been looking for a few people in PHX area to go out and hit some trails with!

 

Amen to that. Thinking about painting the pointer slit or whatever that thing is that tells you where the setting is International Orange.