Disable 4 wheel drive on 2015 Tacoma

A friend was driving and inadvertently turned the 4 wheel drive selector switch while reaching for the heater fan switch.

Started me thinking of a way to temporally disable the switch in certain circumstances.

I thought of removing the 20 Amp "Four-wheel drive system, rear differential lock system" FUSE.

Any thoughts? Will this damage the vehicle? Better ideas?

Thank you...eric

 

It would be simpler to put some blue masking tape over the switch as a tactile reminder. No point in using fuses to disable the option if you bought the truck for the sake of having 4WD.

 

Oops

 

I've never had that happen...or even come close to that happening.

 

Dude your buddy had to overshoot quite a bit to get the 4wd knob reaching for the heater

 

Won't hurt anything

 

To be fair they use the same control knob.. but yea the placement is about a foot apart.

 

This.

 

Too funny... and I agree 1000x. I don't let anyone drive my vehicles for a multitude of reasons.

David

 

exactly

Yep

 

Does he have the illuminated 4WD switch mod?

 

If the OP questions this , sorta wondering what speed the truck went into 4x4 ?

I am not a fan of selecting 4x4 at interstate speeds

 

I have to admit

I have done this before myself...... I started turning the 4x4 switch but imediately realized what I was doing and quickly turned it back to 2H before it ever actually went into 4H...... all I wanted to do was turn the fan speed up on the heater.

 

I've read of at least 3 other dummies here that have done that. I'm one of them - twice.

 

It won't hurt anything

 

I hit it with my knee once and it turned the 4wd on

I'm tall..

 

You could teach your friends how to read or buy them "common sense for dummies' ?

 

Ironically it's " dummies "

 

not an English major

 

Yes, disable the 4WD. Don't go off-road, it's very dangerous out there. Stay safe.