What have you done to your 2.5 gen Tundra today?

Thank you!

 

That thing made my truck look like a little Taco! Hahahahaha.

 

Where do additional accessories connect to the SDHQ terminals? Are they not like anything of this type?

 

18's.

 

I just looked up the specs on my rims and the bore is 116.50 as well. No issues.

 

Tore apart my whole front end. Wanted to remove the middle bumper valence to plasti dip it black. I'm not a huge fan of all the white on the front of my truck, needs something to break it up. I'm also installing a lower bumper light bar. Just a cheapy from 42" double row auxbeam from Amazon. It just barely fits height wise. Width wise I probably could have gone a little wider.

Just waiting for the plasti dip to dry (one can let me do 3 coats, I should have bought a second.) It looks good, but I'm not sure how long it will last. I will bolt it all back up tomorrow and post some pictures completed.



Before picture, with all the white.

 

First oil change today,@ 2000 miles , I should have done it at 500 or 1000, miles. But waited for the parts to Replace the plastic filter assembly with the metal one and changed the guts over.

 

Looks good

 

Finished tweeking my Alpha Rex Nova headlights. Leveled out and had to depin gray wire inside dash panel to make work right. Came with sequential turn signals.
Also took her to the beach.
We held hands

 

ok so i'm totally not aware of this, so you do an oil change after the 1st 500/1k miles on a brand new Tundra?
Sorry for being behind the curve, first time owning a Toyota and/or Truck

 

Most of us do the first one at 5K.

 

We held hands….

 

Most?, not sure about that one. I did mine at 700 and the oil was pretty filthy, and the filter had some metal shavings in it. I've always changed the oil on a new vehicle extra early to remove the break-in crud. Of course, that choice is always up to you.

 

Considering I can do my own oil changes if its best practice to do one between 700-1000 first miles i'm totally ok with that
This is probably my forever truck and looking to try my hardest to treat her as awesome as I can, currently she's at the Stereo/Alarm
place getting a Compustar T13 installed

 

I was ready to change mine out around 1,000 miles and a well-trusted / respected mechanic I know plead with me to leave it in for the normal OCI claiming the factory fill has special additives for break-in. No idea is that’s true but I did let it go until 3k miles and have been ok 5k intervals since.

 

They are kind of like that, but not as many plugs? ( I can't think of what they are at the moment). If you look closely at my pic you can see the extra bolt on the side, plus there are two more smaller ones that you can't see in the pic. They are nice, beefy and look great, but there are plenty cheaper one's out there.

 

I was the same opinion as @TILLY looking at the color and the shavings mine looked exactly the same, I thought Dang it I should have dumped it earlier. But now hearing the perspective of @AZBoatHauler maybe the additives make it look more dirty? Who knows? I’m just glad to have it out. Burned a quart pour through rinse then refilled it with 8.5 qts.

 

I emailed Method with that question and here is the response. Thanks FYI.
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Our wheels are designed both in Hub Centric and Lug Centric form. In the case of for this wheel/vehicle combination, this would be lug centric. As long as you have a set of aftermarket lugs (our or not) that are conical ET style with just the center cap and proper wheel torque (star pattern and following the recommended factory torque specs), everything should be fine. You won’t find many aftermarket companies that make/offer a hub ring that big as it is not typically used.

 

Bolted everything back up today, here's how it turned out. Lower bumper valence painted black, and light bar installed.

 

Not bad at all!

 

Added some Nitto RG 285/60/20.

 

Good to know. I went with their lug nuts when ordering. I've never heard of any issues or problems either.

 

Of all the Method rims, I like the 305 (pictured) best! Nice choice! I'm just not sure they have the offset I want.

 

Looks amazing without the black ring!

 

Subtle but something...

 

Ordered the MotivX oil change bundle at 15% off

 

So worth it!

 

Yep, especially with the RCI skid. Now I just need to order the Fumoto.

 

The fumoto is awesome. Just get some tubing to go eith it and make sure you get the one with a nipple so you can put the tube on it. Mine is amazing. Between that and the motiv kit, i did an oil change and only used one paper towel lol.