What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

I have been extremely happy with the Gibson exhaust the past couple of years. Has a little better growl than the $200 more expensive TRD exhaust I was going to buy. In my opinion it is not so much of a drone noise but more of a "no cab insulation so you hear every freaking thing outside" noise. I swear you can hear crickets chirping with the doors and windows closed. I don't recall any of my prior Toyota or Ford trucks having such little sound insulation in the cab.

 

It has Apple car play, I haven't tried it though.
There is app called zlink that gives you Android auto and car play on this headunit.

 

Suggestion, get yourself some "Reel Pouches" to protect those nice reels.
https://www.cabelas.com/product/Cabelas-Reel-Pouch/1349838.uts

 

Putting foam inserts in the air vents on the back wall of the cab had the biggest effect on interior sound deadening for my truck. Sound deadening on the back wall was next, followed by sound deadening the doors. If the road noise bothers you as much as it bothered me.

 

Foam inserts in the vents? Can you describe a little more or share pics or link?

 

It's cut up pieces of the foam that you buy to seal off the gap between the windows, when you install a window air conditioner on your house, They sell it at Home Depot, Lowe's Menards, etc.
Also, go to the thread called "Cab Noise" there are some good ideas in there also. I can't take credit for the "foam in the vent" idea. I learned it on this forum, but I can't find that post at the moment.

 

Is there a particular thread you had in mind?
I scanned a handful with "cab noise" in the title and they all seemed to go like:

"The 2016 Access Cab is noisier than the 2nd Gen."
"No it isn't."
"Yes it is."
"You're crazy."
"No I'm not."
"Yes you are."

 

I hate it when that happens! Seems to be a few of those here!

 

LOL, yes there are quite a few of those threads.
Here is one: https://www.tacomaworld.com/posts/20665748/
I'll post another in a minute.

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/posts/20629295/

 

Thanks much... I'm having a read.

 

So much need

 

My Registration and 2020 sticker came yesterday so I put it on the plate and removed the ugly temp plate. EVLKARL plate is now official on the TAcoma. Time to order some Stickers from my old Punk Days and slap them on.

 

Welcome to TW!

 

Happy Independence Day everyone.
I’m off today, but I’ll doing yard work and cleaning the pool for this evening.
So it looks like the truck will get another work out hauling off stuff from the yard.
Might even have to take a nap to be well rested for tonight.
Be safe with the fireworks and use a designated driver.

 

Happy 4th of July my TW brothers and sisters! Thank you to all the brave men and women who help keep us safe and make this country great! Thank you for your service!

 

Have you tried the apple? Just asking because I couldn’t find anything on it but if that works I would be in. Love to avoid a dash kit. Also did you keep all functionality Outside of the nav and songs on the center screen(rear camera, etc.) if so what parts did you need?

 

Keep your powder dry!!

 

I have not tried iphone yet, but here is a video from the company that makes it (about 9 minutes in is the iphone)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBpuuLZGVrQ

All functionality seems to be there, actually ended up with a little more too. But nav in the clusters, compass in the cluster and radio in the cluster are all gone. But that may have more to do with the fact that I am using the settings for a 2013 rav4... I need to find more settings that will decode the canbus better.

You will need a dash kit, but just for the mounting arms from the dash kit. The factory mounting arms fit, but only hold on with a single screw on each side. I ordered this kit, but will only use a little bit of it.

$23 Scosche TA2121B Compatible with 2016-Up Toyota Tacoma Premium Model ISO Double DIN w/ Pocket Dash Kit Black

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XYBT88X?ref=ppx_pt2_dt_b_prod_image

Aside from the dash kit for the mounting arms, everything is there, plugs right into the factory harness too.
There are 2 versions of this headunit, one with canbus, one without canbus. I think all tacomas need the canbus version, thats the one I got.



EDIT: one more thing, you can adjust the button lights to preset colors, none of them match the tacomas blue, I ended up just setting them to white.