What have you done to your 4Runner today?

I picked up a used rear swingout bumper from a fellow TW member and mounted it.

 

Your wife must be cooler than mine because mine wont let me modify her runner.

 

Ironman lift and UCA's installed

Untitled by redrunner87, on Flickr
Untitled by redrunner87, on Flickr

 

yoda Sticker

 

Put in some work the other day.

In order of pics:
- Boat loaf of Baja Designs Lights
- creates custom spacers to raise the Prinsu Rack to provide enough space for solar panels to be flush mounted under my crossbars. The panels aren’t connected to the crossbars, instead I mounted them to the side rails, to avoid deflection.
- RedArc Brake Controller
- Expedition Essentials TPAM dash Mount with Power
- Custom Control Pane in rear qtr panel w/ USB, DC, AC 1500w inverter, ARB Compressor.
- Dual panels
- Dual Odyssey Batteries
- RedArc BCDC charger For power management.
...what else...

 

Finally got around to installing the bumper and winch

 

Victory bumper? Looks really good!

 

Thanks! Yeah Victory4x4 bumper, fit and finish is awesome

 

I like their products. They look really good. I am am leaving heavily towards a low pro bumper up front next. But I should address my rear bumper.

 

I like their rear modular bumper but the C4 Fab rear bumper keeps calling for me to buy it. lol

 

I smashed my rear bumper up. I was heavily debating buying their modular bumper since I was getting ridiculous quotes to do this. I found one shop that said around $500

 

That's not a bad price to do that mod to be honest. I just want to have a rear bumper to carry my spare up top and fuel cans for extended range on trips. It's a definite plus when you're driving through muddy trails and the spare is up top instead of the stock location...just my preference.

 

My boo-boo

IMG_8505 by redrunner87, on Flickr

 

That is a good point. I was getting quotes of $1400 to do it, at that point I would just get the Victory. I am going to build a "Budget" swing down spare tire holder that attaches to the receiver hitch. Definitely won't help my departure angle but should come in at under $200. Best part no welding.

 

I would get the Victory modular bumper, you build it as your needs arise

 

What did you put under there?

 

New coils for the old girl! Needed extra support for her new booty implant.

 

I divorced the awful entune radio. Cartrimhome T9 android 9" for the 5th gen.



I added a 2TB portable HD with loads of movies and MP3 128 audio collection.



So far, so good. Everything I have tried so far works but have more to go.

Web browsing thru cell phone data. I might add an optional sim card to make it easier.



Google maps thru Android Auto is like having a Garmin GPS on your dash.
No dust under the screen like previous T8 units
No buzzing sound with the engine running
Hands free calls work great with the included external mic
Steering wheel controls all work and install is plug and play with included harness
Bluetooth works great with my Samsung Note 10+
Backup camera works - Need to set it to PAL in options

Still need to add
Wired Android Carplay USB adapter - should add more features
Front mounted camera
OSBII wireless plugin for vehicle information (not included)

It's only been installed for a couple days so I still have some testing to do. So far I really like it though.

 

Keep us posted after a few days of using it. Interested in this for mine.

 

Drove it yesterday and popped the fuse for the radio as I was backing out of my driveway so didn't get to enjoy it yet.
I pulled the HU and wrapped all the unused wire ends with electric tape and replaced the fuse. It's working again. I did a test drive and it's good.

Something else came in from CTH.