What have you done to your 1st gen Tundra today?

Oh and while we're on the topic ...

Looking at @SateenC1's phone holder in that thread, it reminded me. Work forced me to upgrade iPhones because my 8+ wouldn't upgrade to iOS 17, and we've got a strong leg in the cybersec world and are always worried about security, so they [forcibly] issued me a 14+.

It's just making me realize two things: It's big, feels larger/heavier than my 8+. It supports wireless charging better than my 8+ and I got a case with embedded magnet catch for that purpose. I'd love to be able "dock" it on a magnetic wireless charger and have it sit in front of the ashtray area, angled toward me. Maybe something you could use to add a HaloLock (or Qi) style maglock charging mount onto that would also give some ability to pivot the screen towards you? Maybe it could fit into the ashtray slot like the Scangauge holder like @FiatRunner was recently showing off. Maybe that's what @axtawesomizer needs to be 3d printing the structure for? I just don't want to give up one of my cupholders for a phone mount, nor block one of my vents, and I'd prefer it was up higher and more-forward than the cupholders too. I know, I know. I could just use wired carplay, but ... I find I use use my phone more than CarPlay when we're in either CarPlay-functional vehicles, it's habit.

EDIT!!! This exact mount I'm describing would be awesome for folks who are using Torque Pro on secondary Android devices as an added gauge cluster!!

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This thread also gives me some ideas. Just ... the fact there's a power port RIGHT THERE next to the damn ashtray, it feels like a no-brainer to me.

 

It reminds me of these…
https://www.etsy.com/listing/960122621/funny-mall-rated-metal-badge-fits-jeep

 

I think that making a phone mount that fits into the ashtray slot would work great. I was really surprised at how easily something could be made to securely mount something in that area. I think if you found a phone mount that attaches to a surface via screws or adhesive, it would be easy to design and 3D print a bracket that would slide into the ashtray slot and have a place to attach a phone mount. I'm thinking a phone mount like this would work:

Permanent Screw Fix Phone Mount for Car Van Truck Dash fits Apple iPhone SE

https://www.amazon.com/Permanent-Screw-Phone-Mount-iPhone/dp/B07MLM88S7

Another bonus with the 3D printed scangauge mount: all of the wires can be hidden in the space where the ashtray once was.

 

And proximity to OBDII port.

 

Shifty is this the console in your AC? I have somehow never seen one of these blanks before!!!



That’s what I need to replace the useless side mirror adjustment switch from the Sequoia console I put in my AC.

 

I didn’t mind the spiker scangauge mount, felt like it was a good spot. Not sure the ashtray is decent line of sight.

for phone, I prefer wireless CarPlay. What are you guys displaying on the phone while driving? I have a DMM in the ‘16 but I don’t ever put the phone on it so it’s mostly useless.

 

Well, I also have a new and much larger phone (Samsung Z Fold) that required a larger holder. The holder I had previously, clipped to the vent blades. This was not very effective for a number of reasons. I have a ProClip in my car that clamps to the side of the console. This makes for a very solid and adjustable mount. I got the small tablet holder for my ZFold which measures 7.6". ProClip is on the spendy side but was worth it to me. They have many options for many phones and, they're metal not plastic. You can check them out at www.proclipusa.com. Here's a couple pics in the car and truck.

 

I rock a current SE. miss the old SE which was smaller. 4s before that. I like em small I guess.

 

I just put my phone in the cup holder.

I have been wanting to do this ram mount of the side panel
https://youtu.be/3oX1Gx2fIN8?si=CHyXsCvTm9M7ELMc

 

Did my first oil change since I got the truck back in the summer. Swapped in an OEM oil and air filter. Found a good bit of oily mud on the topside of the skid plate, but it lined up pretty well with someone doing a sloppy job on swapping the oil filter in the past so I’m gonna chalk it up to that.

 

Whelp I performed a colonoscopy on my baby. The entire fuel filler neck was clean as a whistle. This pic is the entry into the tank I believe. I had almost 4 feet of camera line into the fuel filler by this point. No obstructions. I could feel that little flap move as I poked at it with the camera end. I think the pump clicking off may have just been a fluke? I went back to the same store and used a different pump and pumped $20 into the tank at the full speed and the pump never clicked off this time. Anyway here is the pic.

Here is my camera I used.

Oiiwak 7" IPS Industrial Endoscope 2.0MP HD Borescope Camera for Pipe Sewer Drain Plumbing Inspection 6X Digital Zoom IP68 Waterproof Endoscope Snake Probe with 6 LED Lights(3.5M/11.5ft)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09QSFPQZ9?ie=UTF8

 

Replaced the burned-out brake light on the off-brand Tundra. Little success.

I've been sourcing bits from China trying to add in a tailgate handle camera to the truck. Built an adapter/jumper plug using a Molex, some wires & a Sony cable I stole off a $2 Chinese plug. That built, everything in hand I installed the molex into the Nav head unit, Plugged the camera's RCA into the adapter, ran the wire through the back window, across the bed to the tailgate handle laying on the tailgate. Took the power/ground wires from the camera, wired them into a 7-pin, plugged it in to the trailer plug, put the truck in R & WALA! I head a picture of the outbehindthetruck on the head unit. My concept actually F'n worked on the first try. Picture on the head unit seems good, maybe a little dark. Oh, duh - camera still has the blue plastic on the lens! LOL.
G-damn!
Looks like rain coming, so i'll tear apart the truck to run the wires another day. Gonna suck that I just had the truck WoolWaxed, I'll be coated in the stuff.

But a project worked.
1st try.
Exactly as conceptualized.
Amazing. Big Success.

All told, I'm at about $50 & including future wire running - about 2 hours to add rear camera to the factory Nav/head unit. Nice.

 

This is basically what I do currently.

My console is the one pictured here: https://www.tundras.com/threads/howto-add-flush-mount-usb-aux-port-in-center-console.70236/

 

My eBoy “sandalwood” color-coded cubby came in to replace the Sequoia donor console’s rear climate controls, thirty seconds to swap those out, can’t tell a noticeable difference with my truck’s OEM “oak” interior colors:




Out with the old:

In with the new to me:


Tomorrow I’ll tackle those nasty cup holder foam inserts, those came in too.

 

Those have always looked janky to me. I think I’m gonna make my own when the time comes.

 

It was just a little extra "flair", and at $5 I thought "why not?!"

I honestly didn't like the way it looks in person. It looks like some plastic garbage you'd get out of a 25¢ toy dispenser at K-Mart in the 1980s, for anyone who may remember that. All it is is shit blown plastic, glued to a baseplate, with two nylock nuts sandwiched in.

Yup, won't do that again...

 

Trip down south for two nights, with some hunters, I was just hunting for a buzz. Pretty chilly at night/morning, dew on everything right before the sun hit the canyon. There was a 4runner anniversary event just across the highway, so we tootled over there in my buddies 80series. The raffle was for a local charity and the admins brought in over 12k worth of raffle items I won a lil ammo can compressor, a Warn recovery backpack loaded, and a camp table!

 

Dang. That was a legit raffle. What all comes in the Warn backpack?

 

For a small town yokel group, they pull some good stuff together, very impressive
https://www.warn.com/epic-accessory-backpack-95510
their description online seems to suck, but it’s got gloves, a snatch block, some sort of shackles? A regular rope and maybe a kinetic rope

I dumped a bunch of tickets into the go treads but didn’t get them


Edit, I lied; I came up!
https://www.warn.com/medium-duty-epic-recovery-kit-97565

 

Installed the front cupholder foam things. Have to uninstall the rear console part to get to the rear ones:

 

Knowing you live in TX, hopefully those aren't the ones that fade to purple after some time.

 

Hope not! Though I usually have a sunshade up in it now, something it didn’t have for years and years….

 

Did you just buy these directly and how much were they? I see the dude’s email, would just emailing him directly be the way? TIA

 

So that's what goes in the little cubby on the center console? Huh. How 'bout that. My mirror controls are on the dash, left of the dimmer. The cubby I use as my chewing gum wrappers tiny trash can. LOL

 

@PenderBen I found these on fleBay.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/363799681042

 

I have a 2001 AC, so my side mirror controls are on my automatic window control panel on the left armrest; what you're seeing is the location on the 2004 Sequoia I robbed that whole center console from. If you want your mirror controls there, mail me that little gum wrapper cubby and I'll mail you my Sequoia mirror controls!

 

I bought them on eBay for $30, lol. Utterly frivolous expense but my truck's interior is really nice and the Sequoia console donor truck was a gross coffee-stained and godknowswhatesle shitbox.

 

I bought mine out of Texas, from eptech: https://www.ebay.com/usr/eptech2003

Specifically, this item/set: https://www.ebay.com/itm/323809743677

Mine I think ended up with @alb1k, inside the OEM cupholder I shot his way.

I don't think eptech's has the purple-fade-out issue.

 

So are these more rigid than OEM? Easy install I'm assuming. Here I am, buying stuff I didn't know I needed thanks to this forum. Same thing happened to me at Tacoma world