What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

Very envious!!

 

Same!

 

I’ve owned a few Subaru’s and never thought their seats were very comfortable! What year forester? I might have to find me a set

 

yea the 650's made a big difference for me, especially in taking corners and controlling roll.
700's work well for some people here, but I'd also be hesitant with all the folks cracking shock towers, LCA's, etc. Albeit that's prob largely due to going fast and having a heavy rig, but I think the 700's definitely play a role regardless.

 

I put the switches through the plastic on the side/front of the seats. After having them for a couple of winters, I would not recommend that location. Best would be to get them somewhere that you can see the lights easily. Otherwise, they sometimes get left on. I plan to move mine to the area just in front of the shifter.

 

Got my front windows tinted with 25%. It made a much bigger difference than I was expecting so now I might go back and get my windshield done with 50%.

 

Thank you for the advise.

 

Installed 6" KC HIDs
Installed Yakima Bars
Replaced broken tailgate handle. Had to drill out the old bolts and replace with new.

Shout out to @sinks88 for the idea
And shout out to @PoweredBySoy for the lights

 

Damn son! Thats a nice interior

 

Thank you, it needs a good cleaning, and I need to move my powered sub under the passenger seat now.

 

Yooo what’s that roof console all about? And how much work did it take?

 

Probably typing 16 digits and dropping a bunch of cash

 

It is an Outback roof console for a Hilux that I mounted my HAM radio in.
It mounted pretty easy. I modified the mounts to move it forward a couple of inches and mounted a Gentex 177 mirror to the windshield.

 

What model & year they come out of? Are there a lot of modifications needed to the tracks?

 

They came out of a 2008 Subaru Forester XT.
I cut the feet off of the Forester seat tracks and then cut the feet off a set of junk yard Tacoma tracks.
Then I measured and welded the Tacoma feet to the Forester tracks.
The two seat tracks are the same width apart, which made it pretty easy to line up.

 

More photos or is there a link in your build?

 

Never got around to wiring up the seat heaters before I sold the seats. But I had the 2005 Forester XT factory seat heater switches and they fit perfectly in the clock blank plate.

 

I've been looking around at heated seat options for my truck, unfortunately I don't have time to hit up junk yards in the area, what's the second best place to source something like this?
https://car-part.com/ ? (based on some of the prices out there, at a certain point it just might be cheaper to go with https://corbeau.com/)

 

I found mine by searching ebay for sellers of seats, regardless of the type, that were within a reasonable drive for me. Once I found a seller, I got in contact and went to see his inventory. I only paid $220 for my BMW seats, gray leather, 6 way adjust, lumbar, heat. This guy had probably close to a hundred sets of seats in a storage building.

 

That is good to know.