What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Where did you find these? I’d love to get rid of the shiny TRD tails with some dark OEM ones

 

When I lived in the mountains, at 11.300ft. my Taco saw -35 to -40*F quite a few times, with no start up issues.
I did not have a block heater, but I made sure to run the 0 - 20 oil, and ran my anti-freeze at a 2 to 1 ratio for the best cold weather protection (something like -55*, if memory serves)

 

Ya that's it! Good find!

 

Sorry to burst your bubble but where I live in the SE US no one calls the cold and snow we’re getting a ‘major disaster’. It’s more like ‘stay off the roads for a couple days’ because local governments have no use for serious snow removal equipment. To be honest, with as many RY’s here, snow events are mostly celebrated as a reason to get out and enjoy the weather.

 

I know...it's ridiculous

 

Yupers, some of us lifelong residents to the south are upset that the storm went below us, Now this single digit temp crap can stay up north, snow stickes just as good down here at 30F...

 

But do u have coats? Lol... my cousin in FL always complains about the cold when he comes back to the midwest. He always has to go buy warmer clothes. He seems to always forget.

Carhartt is probably making a killing!

 

Sometimes it means, go out and play before it gets plowed.

 

Can you share the info of the mobile repair guy?

 

Sure thing-

www.fenixwheelrepair.com

Took the guy about 2.5 hours.

FYI- No affiliation or connection to the business other than being a customer.

 

Sweat pants, hoodie, non insulated Dickies coveralls. Good to go! I brought a couple heavier coats with me from Ohio but always end up lending them out to cute girls. Go figure.

 

It would be interesting next year to align your oil change just before winter with an oil with better cold cranking viscosity to see if it makes a difference (not all 0w-20 are created equal in this regard). What brand oil are you using now? Super Tech HM is 5,236. (https://pqia.org/super-tech-sae-0w-20-high-mileage-full-synthetic-motor-oil/), while Amsoil is 5,723 (http://pqiadata.org/AMSOIL0W20.html). Going slightly thicker to 5w-20 can drastically change things for the worse as Super Tech barely meets the the cold cranking viscosity standards at 5w. (http://pqiadata.org/SuperTech_5W20.html).

 

eBay! Loads of them out there.

 

Just to save you potential headaches…I purchased the same style that was aftermarket and had to return them due to fogging. The aftermarket makers use vented stickers instead of rubber and they can fail when they curl up. You can search my post on this. I ended up returning them and went with OEM. Just FYI.

 

Installed the OEM Trail edition grille. Took about 30 mins. Glad it matches the wheels! No TSS error too.




EDIT - my stock 2022 sport grille with TSS is for sale! DM me if interested

 

I picked up mine off of Amazon for a very good price, and 1.5 years in they are still sealed. I'm well aware I could have problems at any time...but so far so good.
If you go with aftermarket it's a definite risk, and my OEMs are in a box in the garage.

 

I think the aftermarket stuff is just really hit and miss. Before I bought OEM, I saw a lot of positive reviews of the aftermarket ones I bought, but in my case I got a bad set. Hopefully you have better luck than me!

 

Pennzoil platinum full synthetic. 0w20. These motors really shouldn't be finnecky about the oil just as long as it's in spec.... But here I am ... Wondering

Is it a bad batch of OEM filters? Is it the oil? Should I switch oil to Mobile1? Should I just say to hell with all of it and ignore it because it's just a "Tacoma feature".Annoying... I checked my dipstick today before leaving work and I'm at the full mark. It was 22 degrees and no issues.on cold start..

This AM it was 9 degrees and my truck yelled at me again... Low Oil pressure... For 4 seconds.... Then back up for 2 seconds... Then again for one second...

My son has the same truck in a v6 and his display isn't telling him Low Oil Pressure..


I'm having a suspicion that this last batch of oil filters i purchased has a faulty ain't drainback valve or something

 

-8F The Taco started up fine, sounded a little different, and took forever to warm up. Temp gauge would swing from straight up, back to the first bar, then back to normal.

Just what I need - something else to mod.

 

Penzoil platinum has a pretty high cold cranking viscosity, so it's probably not the issue.