What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Raku77 · Jul 16, 2025 at 5:10 PM

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Woah, that's a serious swing-away set-up! Who fab'd that awesome-looking, monumental rearward shift in center of gravity?
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Hahaha! It’s nothing crazy. Maybe the way I took the picture makes it look crazy. It’s just a C4 Bumper with swing away and a 1Up bike rack with a swing away. This is how it looks closed

nikonNUT · Jul 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM

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Just watched a video on removing the map lights with some duct tape. I’ll try that first, plus I got skinny fingers, lol. I avoid screwing with interior plastic as much as possible.
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I know they make the tape trick look easy but I got adhesive everywhere on the reflector so I resorted to a spring loaded battery terminal clamp to grab the bulb. Didn’t care about the OE and they came right out!

DavesSR5 · Jul 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM

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Hey y’all, I know this has been discussed before but the Tacoma forums are so big and would take forever to find again. But I am wanting to get the LED’s for the interior lighting. I believe I read where some of the lights are polarized and if you install them wrong you could blow a fuse. Is this something that occurs. Also (if polarized) how would you tell which end of the LED is + or - ? Are they marked ? Also, any recommendations for which supplier to order from.
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As others have said, no issues with blowing fuses (unless you just flat out stick something metal in there and short something out lol).. I just closed all my doors so no power going to anything, also as said, install the map light and check it, if it works reinstall the cover, if it doesn't 180 it and recheck... Yes the dome was a bit of a PIA, but doable... If not done yet, the VLEDs is well worth the money and one of the 1st mods needed for these trucks...
I went the cheaper way and went with this kit...

$19 AUTOGINE Super Bright 6000K White LED Interior Light Kit Package for 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Toyota Tacoma + Install Tool

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0834MGNHM?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

Justin_Exploring said: ↑

This is more of a what have I done to my Tacoma in the past month than today. Went through big stint of upgrades recently. Upgraded from CaliRaised ditch lights to Morimoto 4 and 2 bangers mounted on the A pillars, installed the Saint's Offroad Alpha front bumper with the Baja S8 30" lightbar and a Smittybuilt 12k winch w/ the factor55 ultrahook and DV8 flip down license plate bracket to keep it all NJ legal. With all this new stuff, felt like I was in a dire need of a better wiring solution so I went with the Overland Equipped fuse bracket to install a Blue Sea fuse block & breaker, made a little panel to mount my relays atop the OEM fuse box cover, and wired up a 500amp solenoid so I have interior switch power to the new winch. On the battery I used KnuKonceptz Battery Terminals to give more mounting flexibility. Went with CaliRaised's switch panel replacement since it's injection molded plastic and not printed. Super happy with how it all came out, did my best to keep everything as clean looking as possible.

Shortly after all the modding, took a road trip vacation up north with the wife. Camped in the Catskills in NY for a couple days before driving over to Acadia National Park for the rest of the week. Gotta say Acadia is a pretty magical place. Little photo dump below:

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Damn nice looking truck!!!

DJF07Dirty87 · Jul 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM

nice clean setup plus its cool to see people in the north east seems like its always California or Colorado on here with a little Washington state mixed in.

Justin_Exploring said: ↑

This is more of a what have I done to my Tacoma in the past month than today. Went through big stint of upgrades recently. Upgraded from CaliRaised ditch lights to Morimoto 4 and 2 bangers mounted on the A pillars, installed the Saint's Offroad Alpha front bumper with the Baja S8 30" lightbar and a Smittybuilt 12k winch w/ the factor55 ultrahook and DV8 flip down license plate bracket to keep it all NJ legal. With all this new stuff, felt like I was in a dire need of a better wiring solution so I went with the Overland Equipped fuse bracket to install a Blue Sea fuse block & breaker, made a little panel to mount my relays atop the OEM fuse box cover, and wired up a 500amp solenoid so I have interior switch power to the new winch. On the battery I used KnuKonceptz Battery Terminals to give more mounting flexibility. Went with CaliRaised's switch panel replacement since it's injection molded plastic and not printed. Super happy with how it all came out, did my best to keep everything as clean looking as possible.

Shortly after all the modding, took a road trip vacation up north with the wife. Camped in the Catskills in NY for a couple days before driving over to Acadia National Park for the rest of the week. Gotta say Acadia is a pretty magical place. Little photo dump below:

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BC Hunter · Jul 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM

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Hahaha they're just very good places to order from. It used to mean girlfriend, but it's turned into a term for anything that you like very much lol.
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So, "bae" is the new "groovy?"

solscooter · Jul 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM

BC Hunter said: ↑

So, "bae" is the new "groovy?"
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yeah baby. Yeahhh

ColoradoTJ · Jul 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM

I was dreading reading 180 posts since my last. We appreciate you guys cleaning up this thread.

RichochetRabbit · Jul 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM

solscooter said: ↑

yeah baby. Yeahhh
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Fred and Daphne can recommend a nice ascot for you. And tell you where to buy Scooby Snaks.

Chrisx8182 · Jul 16, 2025 at 9:57 PM

Raku77 said: ↑

Got rid of the Diamondback cover. Installed an RSI Smartcap. Really loving it.

I’ve just installed Baja S2 Chase lights on the Smartcap.

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how did you mount them?

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