What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Pulled a Bronco Sport out of a ditch which was amusing. Also had a "Maintenance Required" triangle light up on the dash on the way home last night. Oil change time? 9800 miles. Can't remember if that is a free thing at the dealer or should just do it myself.

 

I think they do that every 5k. If you have Toyota care, it’s an inspection and I do t know if f you get an oil change free but yea that light will come on every 5k. It will come on everytime you fire up your rig until you reset it in settings.

 

Underrepresented yes, but overrated? Not a chance. After owning one, there is no WAY I could go to a baby bed, especially when I have actual truck stuff to do, including hauling. Rented a 5' bed before buying my DCLB, and it was utterly useless for camping or hauling.

 

New Toyotas come with 2 years/25k miles of manufacturer recommended service. Since that is an inspection every 5k and an oil change every 10k (or 12 months), yes it's free at the dealer.

 

After driving around with warped rotors for the last couple months, I got around to swapping out pads & rotors this weekend.

Still had quite a bit of pad life left at 81k but I figured it was worth replacing both anyway.

I found rusty pistons on the LF caliper, not sure how concerned I should be. Quick search brings up really badly rusted calipers that are still in use so I'm wondering how bad this is?

For reference, I live in Southern California so rust is usually not an issue.

 

Do you have to replace rotors that are warped or just machine them? Living on a mountain with kids learning to drive I've had it happen more often than I'd like so we just did a normal brake job on it (that is after driving for months with them warped because I knew it was going to happen again).
I've actually never replaced a rotor so I don't even know what it costs vs. machining (and we drive our cars past 200k miles).

 

Be sure to clean caliper pistons before pushing them into the caliper.

 

If you catch it early enough, you can machine the rotors provided they are within spec. At 81k miles, I felt like machining them would be a waste of money as they were pretty bad.

 

Your very welcome and I think you’ll be very happy in all areas

 

Busy morning, Cab rack installed, top rack loosened and adjusted so they are plum. Received E-mail from Cali raised my sliders order has been processed.

 

Oh, what pedals?

 

Drove it to work for the first time.
Remote start was NICE.

 

Teenage drivers and "gee the shop sid I JUST MIGHT get away with machining these" rotors. Just buy new rotors ... cheapest in the long run as new drivers either hit the brakes 10x more than necessary or only when they are about to hit something and bad rotors are dangerous.

 

2nd gen is250

 

Looks Awesome!

 

Thank you sir

 

Thank you.

 

what's a floor mat inspection ?
oem wiper refills are 1/2 that and work perfectly

 

Discovered it’s normal for the truck to turn off after remote start when you open the door! Lame feature.
Also, that the wireless phone charger tray is all but worthless.

 

FIFY