What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

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Picked up a toy
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Did some interior detailing. Glass, nooks, crannies, compressed air helped get all the spring pollen out. I even carefully cleaned the gauge cluster glass.

Used some black shoe polish to finally address the easily scratched interior door panels.

Before

After

We'll see how long this fix actually lasts. For now it's much better.

At this point at almost 90k miles I've got minimal wear and tear on the interior.. it looks petty good.

 

Looks good right now. Which shoe polish did you use?

 

Is this the Toyota certified lift that they sent out in a mailer a month or two ago?

 

This is really cool. Honestly, this is the first time I've heard of using shoe polish on the door panel. I may try this.

 

Let us know if your arm/clothes turn black from the shoe polish transfer.

 

oh heeeeellllll nah.
get some mothers VLR and a scrub ninja pad and clean the panels with that, 99% of my scratches are gone. literally looks like a new door panel, I've tried a lot of stuff and if you told me this would work better than 303 i'd laugh, yet here we are.

 

...phew!! I'll try this instead of the shoe polish then. My door panels have more scratches than a DJ.

 

I bought a 3 pack of the ninja pads at the local detail boutique shop and have been in love with them ever since. its like a sponge made from the stiff side of velcro.

 

Installed front and rear dash cam.

 

I use 303 as well. It doesn't last. It's not that important to me to purchase any other products.

 

Whatever I had laying around. It was quick and easy.

 

I doubt it will. The area where I had gouges and scratches don't really touch clothes. Maybe where my knee rests on the door. It's a dye, so it really doesn't rub off... Time will tell.

 

Day trip to test the new setup.

 

I bet it does. Test it on a pair of binoculars.

 

Hey Ross, @BBogey

This is the TRD Lift I ordered from Dover Toyota (I.G. Burton) but they were not able to do install...so I called Newark Toyota and they hooked me up!

Here are the details and before/after pics.

I used my work bonus to pay for labor and paid cash for parts.

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=prkmzHx4Bmc

 

I would highly advise not using the heat gun method. I've tried this before on exterior plastics on my 1st gen taco and it ended up looking worse over time. Initially it worked awesome and was raving about it. Extremely faded plastics looked brand new. But over time (which didnt take long here in the az heat, like one summer) they faded again and looked even worse with wavy lines all over in the pattern of the heat gun application. It may work better with interior plastics that are still in fairly good shape and retain alot of its internal structure material (plasticizers? iirc) and would last longer being on the interior, but you're basically expediting the process at which itll degrade. Let's say for example, in 10 years (being an interior piece less exposed to uv elements) at which that plastic would fade (even the slightest) itll do it in lets say, half that time, if you apply heat. And look like trash. Then you'll be kicking yourself bc you'll be looking into replacements...

DO NOT USE A HEAT GUN!!!

 

Swapped out the bashed bumper cap on my truck today. Easy enough job but I wasn’t loving the 105 F feels like temp. Go team winter!!!