What have you done to your 2.5 gen Tundra today?

Thank you sir.

 

Busy day today, up at the buttcrack of dawn to install my SDHQ hidden winch mount, Warn VR EVO 10-S winch, fairlead bracket for a 10" LED bar, front camera, and Pro grille with white vinyl lettering from TVD Vinyl. Please ignore my dirty ride...washin' it this weekend. I have a couple of mini LED bars / pods that used to be on my rear bumper for backup lights before I installed the flush mount LED lights in the rear bumper, so I put them on the fairlead bracket instead of buying a 10" LED bar. Not sure how I feel about it just yet...time will tell. I know plenty have told this lie before,but I think I am done for a while. I MIGHT get a couple of Swing Cases, but other than that, I have the truck pretty much how I want it. Next big project will be 6112 / 5160 set-up, but that's in roughly 35K miles (if I can get 75K miles out of my stock shocks).

 

I like the hidden winch setup! where did you find it?

 

Lol his first sentence says it all.....

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=sdhq+hidden+winch+mount+tundra

Cheers

 

When your a slow reader like me, you just look a pictures. lol

That was pretty bad though!

 

the service guy there texted me that there was 3mm left on the pads. I'm a "late braker" with my driving style. And they were squealing a little bit. This dealership isn't known for ripping people off, they're cool.

But yeah, I should have asked to see them.

 

Exactly 3 years to the day i got it, i hit 50k

 

Just bought her a couple of weeks ago and this is the first time I have gotten to clean her up.

Wash, clay bar, polish and wax.

Can't believe how beautiful this MGM color is especially up close. Its like staring at a jewel.

 

Installed rear flaps from Rokblokz. Gonna have to do some trimming to make the fronts fit, so I may go without them.

 

I just installed my blacked out steps. I removed the plastic pieces and sprayed the steps with Rustoleum bed liner.

 

I am thinking of doing the same. I haven't taken a look yet, but do the plastic pieces come on and off pretty easy?

 

Well they’re on.....that is not small job but proud of myself for taking it on with a friends help. So hopefully I didn’t f-up something lol. But it raised the front end like 4”, They come from Toytec set at 3” normally but I requested 2” when they we’re assembled....how much do this things settle because right now it about 1” higher than the front.

 

Holy shit, I've spent alot of money on my truck this week. Parts start rolling in tomorrow.

Led headlights, Tacoma leather steering wheel, just ordered the AJT steering wheel blackout emblem, climate knobs.

Headlights will be here tomorrow, steering wheel Friday, AJT radio knobs probably Saturday.

Not sure on climate knobs and steering wheel emblem.

 

Your lights look awesome. Curious, how much air flow have you reduced going to the radiator? Any problems?

 

Great question! This was one of the things I considered when I installed everything. When you install the brackets to support the two LED bars behind the grille, you remove the two plastic “wings” towards the ends of the radiator, giving a little more air flow. Between that and the small gaps on the tops and bottoms of the LED bars behind the grille, I’m hoping there won’t be issues. Driving home today for about 30 minutes at highway speeds, temp was fine. I’m going to watch it closely driving around town this weekend, and will report back if issues.

 

The GF looks at the Ring camera and watches the FedEx guy dragging this box to the door. Time to act surprised...

 

There are nuts holding them on to plastic studs and the studs are easily striped. When I put them back on I used some silicon adhesive on the nuts to make sure that they won't come loose.

 

It looks like she called the cops on you. LOL

 

She is prone to overreacting. Haha.

 

Your company car or hers?

 

@CBrider Can you take a photo from the side for me? I was considering doing the same, but was worried it would look more angled. Thank you

 

Which JDM ASTAR did you go with? Extremely Bright PX Chips 4157 or the High Performance Super Bright 1:1 4157? No resistor? Thanks!

 

It is mine.

 

Of the truck or the shocks? FWIW, The shocks didn't change the ride height at all.

 

Finally got somewhere to mount my cell. I've never been so stumped in finding a decent location. Toyota went out of their way to make the center console a sea of unusable space.

Got the Un-holey Tacoma Dash Mount from Hondo Garage. I already had the Ram from my last truck, so this was a good way to reuse the phone holder. The mount itself is a nice piece of kit, but not sure how well the vent ring will hold up over time. I'm sure it will be fine for normal driving, but I'll be a little leery of how much it shakes (or breaks) if I'm blazing down some forest service roads. Time will tell. If it brakes, I'll prob just nut up and get the Rago solution for the dash divot.

 

These are the Extremely Bright PX Chips 7440 7441 7443 7444 Amber, SKU: JDM ASTAR-7443-5730-21Y (Information from the receipt)

I did not need resistors, but I have the 2018 TRD LED lights. I think prior to 2018 might need resistors from what I have read on another thread.

Lets see if I can find it in my Amazon order...

 

I just came across the thread that you do need resistors prior to 18. Thanks for the info and the heads up

 

I see why y’all love these OEM LEDs. These are awesome.

 

Getting there, slowly but surely. New Method 305NV put on today. 3/1 lift parts slated to arrive on Friday.