Hey Connecticut, our everything hurts

hey new guy here. this thread seems good , im down in southern new haven county. just got my tacoma on monday, first 4x4 so im new to this type of thing, but not new to wrenching on all sorts of vehicles. just figured id say hi

 

Howdy, there's a few of us in floating around the area. What model tacoma are you running?

 

Welcome and congrats

 

Anybody live or have any info on the New Haven area? It's a possibility I'll end up there as my next unit. Just trying to see what the suburbs are like, how far they are, is it a nice area?

 

Parts of new haven itself can be very rough. Then it depends on which direction you head out of new haven, whether it gets nice or whether it doesn't. In the city itself, to get something nicer or something convenient, you end up paying a premium because of Yale. How far or how long of a commute do you want? Where do you need to go?

 

I would be at the coast guard station in New haven. I'm up to like a 30 minute commute. Wanting to rent a smaller nice house in a nice quiet neighborhood for me and my wife

 

Thats my neck of the woods. I live in branford, originally from guilford and my moms house is in madison. I will have alot of pointers for you, ill PM you later.

 

Perfect, thanks a lot man

 

Sup fellas, just decided to ets and move home to CT from AL. I'll be in Wethersfield where me and the wife are from. Sub'd!

 

Saw my twin today. Lifted swb sb dc with black wheels. Mines a sport and the one I saw was OR. Corner of rt 10 and west Johnson in cheshire ct at about 4:15 today. Never seen it around before.

 

Ok cool. In that case the surrounding towns with in a half hour are nice. Like what Evan said

 

Welcome back!

I'm over in Manchester

 

Branford. North Branford. All 15/30 mins out from cgsnh

 

I told him a little bit about branford/guilford. IMO its a great place to live if you are commuting to new haven.

 

Anyone know who this is?

 

I got nothing sorry man

 

thanks for the info guys. I found out today im definitely going there. Itll be around june/july. ill be lurking around probably asking more questions

 

No problem, any more questions just ask!

 

I have an 2011DCLB with front,rear and step up bars from Avid Offroad installed. I panited all of them myself with 2 coats of Krylon primer and 2 coats of Krylon Satin Black. They came out great and have looked good up untill this winter. Now I want to have them done with Line-X, they want 100 dollars a peice ($400 total)
But the they don't do any blasting or "prep" work. They said I need to have them bead blasted and if the blaster will primer them, have it done.

I have no problem taking them off and bring them to the bead guy but I am having a hard time finding one. I am open for suggestions and any other input.
Thanks
Tackleberry

 

I'm in New Haven proper, and work not far from the Coast Guard station. I really like my neighborhood, but its pretty much surrounded on all sides by ghetto. It works great for me and the wife. No kids, we carpool for the commute, and its close to the stuff we need. I'm not from CT and won't be here in a couple of more years, so we're fine with the area. If we were putting down roots, no way we'd live where we do.

Lots of nice areas around that are easy to commute from and most the people I work with drive at least 30 minutes or more. The CG station is right off the highway, so that's good and bad. You'll get right off a main highway if you commute. You will also get the 91/95 mixer traffic.

I lived in Dallas and traffic here is rarely as bad as what I used to get into daily up that way and in Houston. I guess its relational to whatever you're used to.

Oh, and welcome.