What have you done to your 2.5 gen Tundra today?

Nice! Congrats on the house. I love the tricities area. I visit all the time and plan to move there eventually.

 

So much for the "waiting until the Christmas spending was done to do any more mods" lie I was telling myself. @iHacker harness came Monday and I wasted no time in installing the TRD Pro LED upgraded headlights last night. On a couple dark stretches of my drive home, difference is almost literally "night and day." Really like the way they look as well. Replacement was a snap, as others have said previously. I'm thinking I may mod the grille assembly to attach with velcro if I continue to have it on and off at the current rate. Left side photos are the previous, stock, halogens and right side is the new LED setup.

 

Looks great! I'm contemplating that same velcro move myself, as it looks like my front camera is giving up the ghost after just 2 months (suspect I missed something in preventing water intrusion) - terribly disconcerting to remove anything with rigid plastic tabs when it's -4F outside and my truck doesn't fit in my garage to heat...

 

Well not today. Just got around to posting......

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Did you go OEM or aftermarket? Looks great! Contemplating the same.

 

Thanks.
OEM from Sparks

 

Wheels are in!

 

Mine are not due till Friday. Hopefully.

 

Sexy!

 

I would be down for one

 

I think a lots of us would be interested... maybe a side job for orders

 

Duuuuuude! Can’t wait to see these on. I might have to order these haha. Wife is going to kill me.

 

x2. I’m on the edge as well…

 

Then jump in and get them. Give yourself a Christmas present. Lol.

 

I already did that with a @gosolo knife.

 

TRD Pro lights, rear sway bar, ridge grapplers 275/60/20, OEM tailgate lock, toytec aluma 2.0, SPC UCA, OEM Audio + sound system.

 

Ran the communication wire for my SP-9100s the other day, but forgot to take a picture. Took a while because I am nuts about finding the best route/zip tie points. The SDHQ billet mount is super nice - really digging the card holder location!





I do wish the switch pros came with 7 'blank' stickers instead of only 4. Kind of annoyed spending $600 on it and then having to spend another ~$30 for the three missing stickers.

Today, I installed the stealth lightbar. Wasn't too terribly bad until the end when I realized I couldn't get the grill piece back in. I had it perfectly adjusted. I had to then loosen it all back up and pretty much hang it on the crash bar so I could get the grill piece back in. I then had to snake my arm through to do the final side screw adjustments.



I then added some sheathing to the power cables to make it look a bit nicer. If I could go back in time, I probably wouldn't do it again to be honest...



I did a temporary connection with some butt connectors. Once I get my power tray in, I'll redo all the wiring to make it nice. One other gripe is that I wish the 8 (well, 12 technically) power wires were about a foot or so longer. I'm probably going to need to solder on extensions to make my routing from my SDHQ mount really work, which is annoying.

(If anyone is still reading) I drove to an empty park and fired it up - really happy with the light output. May need to adjust the bar up a bit, but that's a job for another day. Also really debating adding some ditch lights now too... the build never ends

 

I called and asked about a longer cable but was told all I had to do was add more wire to them. I was not happy on that call but I ended up buying the new setup and it had the same “problem”.

 

Saves me a call & makes me feel better that I'm not just being overly nit-picky. Was worried I was just being a complainer haha. Idk why they make the trigger wires super long (the right length) and then skimp on the other wire's lengths.

 

Ugh, what a waste of space! I thought Toyota designed it for Baltic cod liver, no?

 

My thoughts exactly. When I talked to them they told me the new RCR-Force 12 was intended and designed for racing and not for the street application. That was his exact words and he said all the installs are custom so they do one wire length. Perhaps they are moving in a new direction attracting other groups of recreation

 

Aint that the truth... I've done very well pacing myself since getting mine ~2 years ago. Patiently waiting for the last 7-8k miles my tires have in them before throwing on the Westcott/CB setup and getting the 295 for replacements.

I've now ventured down the light rabbit hole, and I'm trying to plan out how I want to connect and use them all. Originally I thought the switch pros would be a no brainer, but $600 is steep, just for it to be tidy. I hadn't seen that SDHQ box for the business card holder. That, plus controller, plus wiring and I'd take all the same OCD steps you did, it adds up quick. I'll be looking at a new battery and auxiliary power panel setup this next year too.

Install looks really good though! Good call on the jacketing for the wires. A lot of people don't realize how much that stuff, plus heat shrink helps. Especially keeping things orderly and quickly troubleshooting issues down the road.

 

Which wires/cables are you guys talking about not being long enough? I'm truly curious, as I had no issues with wire length on my install. The controller wires were more than sufficient to reach both the gear shifter/card holder area, as well as the overhead console. And everything in the engine bay seemed sufficient, including the main power wire, ground, and trigger inputs.

 

Agree! Wired mine up no issues and plenty of extra slack

 

OEM letters are gray, aftermarket are no color just black as the rest of the grill

 

The controller wires were long enough but the wires in the engine bay I had troubles with on the SP9100 and was able to get another length cable (this was 2019). The latest fun was the install of the RCR-Force 12 with the same wires but this time there were the heavy gauge wires (sorry, don't have the manual in front of my phone) that were adequate length but for whatever reason all the other wires were about 2.5-3" shorter and they were just not enough. I called to see if I could get another cable and that is when I was told that they are intended for the race group folks and they are always custom installs so the wire length did not matter. Whatever... I got things to work but splicing a bunch of wires intended to form a cable just does not work. You have the splices all in the same location and it is REALLY fat or stagger them... which is fun and still ends up with the bulge.

 

Controller wire was fine - I had a good ~1' of leftover (which is nice since it gives me slack next time I want to remove my center console).

The power wires are what are about ~1' too short for my liking. It's probably partially on my end, since the SDHQ mount I used places the power module right behind the driver's side headlight/in front of the battery. I will then need to route around the battery to get to the fuse box where my tray will eventually be. The trigger wires I found to be the perfect length, and may remove ~6" from them when I solder them onto the tap-a-fuses.

Overall, it's a small gripe, but it's much easier to be given too much wire (and cut it back) than to be given too little and have to solder on (plus I lose the pretty rainbow colored wires ).