What Have You Done To Your 2nd Gen Tacoma Today?

Yeah, mine has way too much chrome too, I need to work on that soon.

 

New member here. Have had my 05 Tacoma for ~8 years now. I finally found a Leer Camper top to match today. Had been sitting at a dealership over a year. It finally found it's home. If you're worried about the ratchet strap, I plan to get the proper rails installed this weekend.

 

Finally, the way it should be.

Toyota should NEVER have let one of these trucks leave the factory without this grill!

 

I finally got my upgrade to my 2013 TACO. I got a 3 inch lift kit with wildpeak 280/70/17 tires. My wheels are Bronze icon compression rims. Love the look especially with the Spruce Mica. It turned out better then I expected.

here’s some pics

 

Never considered the mica green with bronze wheels, but the combo looks really nice.

 

Packed it up for the weekend.

 

Just got a Diode Dynamics SS3 MAX. I was impressed with their Pro version, but the Max really steps it up.

Any requests testing lights / optics?

 

Wtf
I check/clean mine on all my cars every time I replace my air filter.......

 

Im patiently holding out for a Black Friday deal, but I’d love to see some output pics. At 18000 candela they are damn near double the sports.

 

How hot do they run? I bought a set of the Pros over the Sports due to not wanting them to ice over in the wintertime. A lot of people don't care or think about this with LEDs.

 

One of my favorite combo of colors. Great looking truck dude!

 

Started interior blackout. Liking the progress so far.

 

The difference between tires that measure 35" compared to 37", feels like a huge difference behind the steering wheel. I like it a lot, but I am crazy so...

Thank you!


If I smash the go pedal around a corner on pavement it still spins both of the tires.

I like numbers but I'm pretty poor at math... I'm going to do another 0-60 test and another 4.6* grade test again so I can compare it to the old numbers.

 

Was this painted or bought ??

 

Hands down my favorite color.

 

They're off Amazon and were by a company called Water Carbon. They have all sorts of different versions but mine are the basic high low versions.

I tapped off the battery, running immediately to a 20A fuse then from the fuse to a relay. The relay output feeds the seat heaters. The relay is controlled by the accessory fuse from the inside fuse block. I used a fuse tap and fused at 3A to control the relay.

My wiring is all in loom and ran through a hole I'd drilled just below and left of where the clutch cylinder would be. I put a grommet in and also have some duct seal. It's in a pretty protected location in the engine bay so there's no worry unless you get in DEEP water.

Once inside, wiring runs along the outside edge of the cab under the door sill trim piece. All your air bag and seatbelt switch wiring runs through there and there's a nice channel to follow. Ground is picked up from a screw at the kick panel (it's actually the screw that holds the clip for the kick panel).

The other side mirrors the drivers side, but I ran a wire in loom across to that location and did the same thing.

Like I'd said in my original post, the high low switch is just forward of the lumbar support and easy to reach. All wiring is contained to the seat and you only need to bring a positive and negative to the seat then.

The key thing is to fuse everything and tap into something that doesn't really screw you over if the fuse blows or you mess up. Even though the fuse tap isn't in the accessory circuit after the accessory fuse, its a lot better to pick something less critical like the accessory circuit instead of something like the ECM or brake lights.

These carbon filament heaters are similar to factory. Between my brother and I, we've put them in 5 or 6 vehicles with no failures.

I will say this, the Tacoma seats were the worst to get apart.

 

Right on, looks good! It's a rewarding mod.

 

Hi all,

Just added The SDHQ BUILT BILLET BATTERY TERMINAL UPGRADE KIT. easy install and helps with the rats nest I had in wiring.
I think it turned out sweet.

Be Safe All...

Dan

 

Received my rear Bilstein shocks. Figured it was time (103k on what I assume to be original shocks. I know I’ve put 47k on em anyways). Also hoping to pick up some used OEM 4 leaf packs tomorrow to swap out my 3-leaf ones. Should pick the back end up some! Hope I feel and see a difference! I hate low trucks so I feel like picking the back up an inch couldn’t hurt. Hoping for an inch lift out of em anyways. Then the plan is to see where they sit before adding lift to the front or more lift to the rear.

 

All bought so far. I’ll have to paint the door speaker trim and gauge cluster trim.

Looking good! What seat covers do you have? They’re also on my to-do list.