What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

I stored my dirt bike over the winter at my brothers inside his enclosed cargo trailer that he keeps his side by side in. I brought it home today.


I removed the TRD off-road stickers from truck, but I would put them back on if I could get these ones.

i saw those on a tundra Friday. The guy made them himself.

 

Bought an Undercover Flex tonneau cover (used) on Facebook marketplace for $200. A little owners neglect aka rust on a couple of the bed panel locks/rails but overall the things in amazing condition for $200. Fully functional, no cracks, weather stripping, locking mechanisms all good shape. Just dirty until I wash it

 

Thanks man. Its always a work in progress but appreciate the love. Holler with any questions

 

Twofer project today.

Chopped up the exhaust to make room for a 33" spare...


Used the remnants to make holders for my drill and impact driver.

 

Its plenty for my alpicool 55. I spent the last week in moab and would charge my jackery during the day off solar and unplug the input at night to let the battery cycle. I would wake up to a jackery battery at like 85 percent and plug in the input in the am, and be at 99 by 1130. I was also using an electric style jet boil called a Joule for coffee and food warming as well as charging phones, cameras, tablets, ect off the jackery. I only had a problem once since i figured all this out. I had to jump my car batt after a 4-5 hr stop in town and it was cloudy, letting the fridge draw more than it should. This was also my fault for not having the fridge in low draw mode. This system works well as long as you remember to unplug the acc wires at night bc the cascadia acc wires are basically making a loop from the car battery and will kill the car battery if the light is low or none and the fridge draws too much. Other than having to unplug that input wire and letting the jackery run the fridge on its own, its working great.

 

I would have said I’d been screwed. Bolt that wouldn’t be accurate. 30 day old tires.

 

Damn, that hurts

 

Just curious if you had checked this? Tempted to buy these cause I love the smoked look but don't want to risk getting rear ended. Appreciate it!

 

Nice work!

But what is the infatuation with "no holes"? Holes add lightness!

 

I picked up a nail today. Tire shop told me it didn't push through and didn't need a patch.

 

Yeah so I called Alpharex and emailed them proof of them being really dim during the day, at first they said that’s just how dim they are since they’re smoked and recommended I call Tacomabeast to see if they’d be willing to exchange them. Once I told them I have the clear lensed Luxx series, and after talking to them both and both of them talking to each other Alpharex realized they were defected and Tacomabeast are gonna send me another pair. So it’ll probably be a week or so until I receive the new ones

 

That's interesting! I wonder how common it is for defects. Thanks for the update, and glad you're getting it sorted.

 

Went mall crawling and then installed Form Lighting LED Tails.

 

Those are pretty sweet!

 

yeah I wonder too and also wonder how long they stay in a warehouse. However I remember seeing on here people bagging on Tacoma Beast for having shitty customer service so I was skeptical but thankfully they’ve actually been working with me and haven’t gave any issues. I’ll update again whenever I receive them.

 

Least intrusion possible (I did make holes for the stiffeners and hood struts though), Potential to return to factory form. Same concept I have for wiring, absolutely no tapping into factory wires.

 

I've seen that also. They replaced some defected Taco Clout mirrors I bought, so issues for me. Sounds good, looking forward to it

 

Don't take this the wrong way but their headlights are... very poor quality. They look fancy. I almost bought them myself when I was in the market for headlights. But after doing all the research and reading reviews from @crashnburn80 there's not a snowballs chance in hell I'd recommend anyone buy those headlights, let alone put them on my own vehicle.

Oem or morimotos for full headlight assembly upgrades. Favorability toward OEM for quality and light output. I went morimotos myself and never looked back. But if/when something ever goes wrong with me, you bet your bottom dollar I'll be getting OEM LEDs. Still have my v1 legacy sr5 conversion harness sealed in a box for when that day comes lol

 

His OP was about their taillights being dim during the day, but yeah I agree I'll be sticking to the OEM LED headlights. Eventually I'll do the black mod to get rid of that nasty chrome

 

An unnecessary restriction to me, but, it's your taco! I have my own ;-)