What have you done to your 2.5 gen Tundra today?

Installed Seat Jackers. What an amazing difference. Like a whole new set of seats.

 

Y’all need to stop with these leather wheels. I already want one bad enough lol

 

Sorry not sorry lol. There's probably 100 other things I could have done with $400 but this is one thing that I touch literally every day. I've never owned a vehicle with a urethane wheel and this one was irritating the shit out of me. For me it's like getting a nice mattress or office chair, if you touch, lay down, or use it for hours every day better get a nice one.

 

Couldn’t agree more. Every time I get into the wifes grandcherokee I’m reminded how shitty my steering wheel is lol. I’ll probably do this soon

 

That is how I feel about my heated steering wheel in my Lexus and wish I could have one in my Tundras.

 

Get a cheap steering wheel cover?

At least it will buy you some time. I put my cover on a few months after buying the truck. Its finally wearing out after almost 4 years. Looking at doing a leather wrap now since no one has a black and blue leather wheel for an affordable price. No I don't consider 1k an affordable price for a steering wheel lol

 

This answers two questions at once! What I'm doing and what I'm listening to. Taking the In-Laws to the airport. Left my house at 2:30am. VHS Collection on the radio.

 

After driving with my Tacoma coming up on 7 years and driving the tundra. The Tacoma steering wheel is nice and more comfortable but the tundra steering wheel doesn’t bother me. At least not enough to change it, but I do see the appeal to swap it and most people are glad they did.

 

A video we did a while back on the 2016 Tundra! Icon 0 - 4" Adjustable Coilover Lift Kit with the Method Bronze MR312 Wheels 18x9 with a +18mm offset wrapped in Falken Wildpeak M/T Tire 35x12.50R18LT E.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5Jhzc08BSs

 

Not to thread jack but do you guys want that T-Rex grill back for scrap metal?

 

Sent you a PM!

 

This may sound crazy, but I actually like the cheaper, spongy foam steering wheels (not sure what the actual material is) over leather ones. I find that they allow more grip and finesse of the wheel, whereas your hands slip a lot on the leather wheels. Mine's a Platinum and I've considered "downgrading" the wheel to an SR5 model, but don't really care enough to mess with it.

 

1000 SR5 owners will be happy to swap with you

 

LOL ill take it

 

I swapped in a used Tacoma leather steering wheel I got on eBay for 160 bucks. It’s a direct swap

 

You scored on that. I looked at a few of those but the ones I did see were about the same price as the brand new one without the control inserts I ended up getting. Would have preferred those mag gray inserts for that price for sure.

 

How complicated is the install?

 

I got one on eBay from a 2019 4Runner for $110. But that was 3 years ago.

 

Ebay? Thats where I got mine.

 

Quite easy in fact, especially if you get the steering wheel nut puller tool

 

The bugs seem to like your truck!

 

Ignorance is bliss. My lowly peasant wheel hasn’t bothered me in the slightest…

 

Here is something crazy - I’ve been on the fence about this upgrade for a couple years - had a wheel from SDHQ in the cart and everything but have resisted. Now we have the LandCruiser with the leather wheel and it kinda bothers me I can feel every nick and imperfection in the soft leather - makes me think the hard poly wheel isn’t so bad especially with my sweaty dirty meat hooks.

 

Lunchtime truck session today included TPMS light mod, cabin filter cleaning and located an annoying wire harness rattle.

 

In preparation for getting my 5100’s and 35’s I installed the coach builder bumper shims installed and fixed the fog light jiggle that always drove me nuts. Added thick insulation foam and now they are solid with ZERO movement

 

Damn....you pulled the whole bumper to install the shims?

 

And what’s going on with the ball peen hammer?

 

yeah I felt it was best to remove it completely, from what I’ve read it’s not totally needed. But oh well. Gave me good opportunity to get eyes on the complete front end and also address my fog light issue.

I had a hard time getting the bumper off the frame mounts, used a old screw driver and the hammer to separate the bumper from the mount. I tried just pulling and wiggling at first but it didn’t wanna budge for me.

 

Pretty straight forward, the Tacoma steering wheel controls are the same as the tundra so it all just swaps over. I did have to get an alignment afterwards because the splines were one tooth off between the two steering wheels. So the wheel was a little crooked when driving straight.

 

Slapped on a cheapo “under the cabinet” 12” 250 Lumens battery powered light to the underside of my tonneau cover. Pretty happy with the result, we’ll see if I have to add some more 3M tape in the future. Interior LED kit off Amazon and the new Sony 9500 head unit from Trail Grid Pro show up tomorrow. Leaving for camp tomorrow night after work so don’t know if I’ll get them installed this weekend or next.

Pretty pumped for the Sony 9500 kit. Here’s the link for any interested https://trailgridpro.com/products/sony-xav-9500es-plug-play-bundle-14-21-tundra/