Recent Mods

Wish I had the cash flo to throw down a few grand on my '19 Taco OR. I have been buying little things to make organizing my truck a little better. I bought a center consul divider, along with AVS side window wind deflectors. I know, so what, it good. I personally like the profile of the deflectors. Easy install.

 

Any mod you do for you is a great mod. I switched out my JBL radio knobs last night, and with the few mods I've made, that's the best mod ever for me. No more dialing the last person I called, when trying to turn my radio up or down and hit the screen by accident. Nobody knows how great of a mod that is except us 3rd gen Tacoma owners

 

I'm still debating on the In-Channel vs the Surface Mount vent visors. Certain things about each one that I don't like.

 

What kind of bed rack do you have on there?

 

I've had both, weathertech in channel was not good for me, never settled right in the channel and kept rolling the window back down. I know that gets better after a few days, but the AVS were half the price, stuck where you put them, and i think did a better job at keeping the rain out.

 

I threw on some running boards last weekend bc my slider order got cancelled. 8 months 8k miles without a parking lot ding but I thought I was pushing my luck. Only gave $100 for this protection so not too worried about them..
I need some radio dials too!

 

Imo in channel looks better. I always had in channel on all my vehicles without issues.

Just curious, what dont you like about in channel?

 

De-badging is always a clean, free mod. Just my thought.

 

In the OP's pic. look at the gap between the window and the visor (looks very narrow). The visor itself looks squished too.

The surface mount visors do stick out quite far. But the vent is capable of being quite large.

On the in-channel, I don't like:
The gap is narrow between the glass and the visor
Seeing the window trim
The squishy look on the in-channel
The visor mounting to trim pieces
Also don't like the interaction with the glass and the in-channel visor.
Don't like the thought of the glue (from the tape) in places that might be hard to clean (if you remove the product).

On the surface mount, I don't like
How far it sticks out.
If you have chrome trim around the windows, the surface mount break up the trim lines.

I know - I'm hard to please. But I love cars. And I'm picky.

 

I can see the gap is very small, those are low profile ones, you can get the regular in channel.

The regular profile ones were better for me when i was smoking, easier to ash when raining. I got these low pro and honestly in the beginning i thought they looked shitty, i kind of wanted to return them.

But overtime they really grew on me, a lot of people think it came from factory like that haha.

Good luck with choosing your visors man!

 

I'm kinda "old-school". So I'll most likely go with the surface mount. They used to make a narrow surface mount. But since the in-channel seem to be more popular, availability may be difficult.

Thanks.

 

Removed the GIANT Totally Rad Dude decals today & replaced with smaller more neutral colors, I like it so far...

 

That looks pretty good. Good placement too

 

Thx man, placement took the longest for sure!

You may see it around, I'm in ATX as well..

 

That’s pretty sweet, where’d you get the decals?

 

Thanks! I had @Emmaprincess93 make it up for me

 

Ahhhh, looks too much like ford to me

 

Well, I'll be going bare once it starts peeling.. the stock stickers look ok but they're just a little too big imo

 

When buying little things isn't enough it snowballs into something bigger. I didn't expect to spend so much on this truck. First it started out with changing out the crappy factory speakers to kickers speakers and subaru tweeter plug and play. That wasn't enough so I changed out my 7" entunes premium head unit for a pioneer avic-8400nex. Still my system wasn't whole, so I'm adding a 12" sub behind the rear driver seat.