What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

I'm playing catch up but I have had my SR5 just over a year, and so far I have:

- Replaced interior lights with LEDs
- Installed a Gator Tonneau cover
- OEM bed mat
- Installed aftermarket bed lights and an OEM switch
- Removed air dam
- Replaced radio knobs with RAV4 knobs
- AC Drain mod
- Installed Screen ProTech on instrument panel, shifter, and infotainment system
- Blind spot mirrors (or as I call it the poor man's blind spot monitoring system)
- Learned the two bucket method of washing
- And some stickers for fun

As someone with zero experience working on vehicles, I can say these have all be extremely easy mods. Next up I plan to do some cheap headlight bulb upgrades. Eventually I'll replace the halogens with LEDs. In time I also plan to get a Pro Grill. And when it's time for new tires I'll get something more off road oriented. Also thinking of some kind of running board/sliders/steps.

 

hell yeah bro, they are the best. Love my heavy duty double. Your levers are nice and bright red. Mine came new with kinda red ones, and bleached out so fast they’re like a very light pink now. My only complaint. Probably an anodizing defect.

 

Installed ditch lights and added a precleaner to the snorkel.

Oh almost forgot added a hilift mount to front rail.

 

And now, I am learning too.

 

Here is the cheat sheet, just $17:

$29 Three Pocket Pickup Truck Cargo Net Fit for Toyota Tacoma 2013-2019 Cargo Organizer Storage Net

https://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Pickup-2013-2019-Organizer-Storage/dp/B07JD945LY

 

I have the same setup. Twice now the camera has died. Only thing I've been able to figure out is what looks like a resistor that is in the +12v line overheats due to constant power rather than intermittent power as you'd get when using the camera as a backup camera on an older vehicle. How did you apply +12v to yours?

 

I asked, because when I ask I learn something. And when I try something and mess up, I learn something. And as others show their ideas/mods and ask their questions, I learn something *.

Thank you.

*"Learn" may also translate to "need"

 

Fuse tap to the efi no 1 fuse.

 

Rinsed my truck off in the driveway today, its 21 degrees out and the car wash lines are too long. So I did what any adult with poor spending habits does, break out the electric water tank full of hot water! Gave her a good rinse down to get the salt and crow shit off.

 

LED license plate lights. Already have the reverse light bypass.



Next I need LED fogs and that's all the lights

 

Installed an aftermarket remote start from 12 volt.

 

Got some @TUFSKINZ sill protectors for Christmas. What a better time to install them when it’s 60 something degrees out.
I should probably vacuum too…

 

Welp, 1/4 isn’t bad . Waiting on the other three and my wheels should be here tomorrow. I went with 265 70/17s and the TRD pro rep 17x8.5 et 0 in bronze. Hoping to have them on by next weekend.

 

Door bowl LEDs from the company which shall not be named. A bit longer to install than I had in my head as I was hoping to do it without popping the door panels, but they're in, they work and they're in and work.

Excited to see what they look like tonight.

This is the ice blue, they're a bit closer of a match in person to the OEM lighting.

 

Took it ice fishing..well, to the shore, not on the ice.

 

Today was bath day. And I did a first-ever clay bar.

 

Looks great!

Did you clay bar all surfaces?

I did my hood I'm looking for a nice day with about 4 hours to do the whole truck I'm guessing it'll take 4 hours.

 

Almost 60 degrees here today. So I took the opportunity to install my blackout stickers for my factory wheels. The machined aluminium really stood out. Took about an hour and a half but included a tire rotation. Working with them flat on a work bench was way easier than doing on the ground and vertically. It needed the rotation anyway.
Before
After

Was not hard to do. They pass the 5 ft viewing test (or the good enough to post to a message board)

 

I did. It really didn't take too long (unless I didn't do it right lol.) I was planning to apply Turtle Wax Ceramic Spray but thunderstorms rolled in before I could get to it.