New Member Greeting

Hey Folks,
Newish to the group, joined in mid December to lurke and find out some details. Wanted to officially say Hi and introduce myself and my Taco.

Here's my TRD Sport. I drove it off the lot 3 months ago with only 6km on the odometer. I wanted to do a Storm Trooper theme with it and in the few months I've had it, I've done the following:

- Tint
- Tonneau Cover
- Heritage style grill with white letters
- Vinyl wrapped the lower front bumper
- TRD skid plate and painted the letters black
- Rigid Industry fog lamps and put yellow vinyl on the lenses
- LED low beam, high beam, signal and brake light bulbs, LED interior bulbs, LED license plate and reverse bulbs
- Removed the oem box decals and replaced them with matte black ones that appear oem
- Removed the chrome door badges and replaced them with matte black ones (not overlays)
- Installed matte black letter inserts on the tail gate and removed the v6 emblem
- Bilstein 5100 shocks and struts on all 4 corners with the front adjusted 1" higher to level it
- Fuel Flux 6 wheels 17x9 et +1 wrapped in Toyo Open Country AT3 265/70r17
- Seat Covers
- AJT chrome delete kit for HVAC vent rings and knobs, push button start ring, 4x4 select button ring, door handles, cup holder trim and shift knob collar
- Black overlay for steering wheel emblem
- TRD shift knob
- White inlay letters for glove box
- Overland Tune

Love the truck so far and looks way better with my OEM+ style mods. Have a few more still in mind.

and thanks for having me here

 

Welcome! That’s one nice looking truck!

 

Welcome Nice looking rig

 

Great looking truck, better name and truck theme combo!

How were those AJT chrome delete vent rings? I’ve read some instances of them not fitting well, and others have said they worked perfectly.

 

Welcome to TW. Truck looks great

 

Welcome to TW!


Nice truck man.

 

Welcome to TW, nice truck

 

Thanks man.
The AJT ones fit perfectly, it's the same as the Meso ones where you have to remove the chrome rings first. Clean with some alcohol wipes and then added a little adhesive promoter and have been solid and in place.

 

Very nice. I may be wrong, but your the 1st I've heard of just going 1" up front and nothing in the rear. This would have been my 2nd choice if I didn't like the 2" up front and 1" rear block. Congrats, I'm sure it rides nice, and also hopefully got rid of the oem brake dive with the lift.

P.S. I like the stormtroopers

 

Welcome to TW!

 

Thanks! I wanted to give it the vanity plate of TK-421 but someone in my province already has it. Might maybe look into some other options like TK- and the last 3 or 4 #s of the VIN or K79-S80 which is the designation model# of the Troop Transports that Storm Troopers around moved around in.

Is only a simple 1" level pretty rare for people to do? With it only being 3 months old I didn't want to get screwed out of my warranty. So kept my mods minimal and what I refer to as OEM+. I also don't do any offroading and not going to lift it to cause more issues down the road as all my info searches have shown these trucks seem to be finicky with lifts and mods.

I find it does ride much better on the bilsteins than the hitachi shocks tho. A little firmer but not bad and the nose dive during braking is noticeably better. It feels more planted and poised taking bumps and corners.

 

Welcome to TW! Beautiful truck!

 

Welcome! Nice work!

 

Stormtrooper! I say go for it.

 

Sick. I dig the white letter tires.
I noticed your white n black shackles. I have a set also but haven't put em on yet. Can't decide if it's "too much" or not. Can I see more pics with yours?
Do you have the raptor lights too? I had the smoked/amber ones but they failed and started flickering in a month. Just replaced em with a smoked/white led set. Thinking of adding some rtv silicone to try and help seal them better. Will probably only install them since I already have the harness wired up from the amber set.
I don't know if I'd add a large stormtrooper decal (personal taste) when I swapped the box decal I saw some stormtrooper edition ones. I wouldn't mind maybe just adding a small empire cog emblem somewhere.

 

welcome. Nice truck

 

You may enjoy this video. Welcome to TW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd3leEA5XsA

 

Welcome to TW, digging the wheels!!!! And black TRD letters

 

Any more pics of the front with the tow hooks?

 

That’s the only video I found. Here is a thread on front tow hooks.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/front-tow-hook-replacement.543552/