What have you done to your 2.5 gen Tundra today?

Well, that 8yr old can also get me a Diamondback cover and a Decked system, and new rims!

 

or go old school "low rider"..

 

Damn that's like winning the lottery

 

Yeah, had i started with a stock Tundra i maybe wouldnt be as high as this was when i bought it...

 

Not really...frees up money for something else to do or get

 

Need the 4x4 in NY

 

Yeah I have 295x70x18's. I already have matching spare under the truck. I bent one of my rims (just a tad bit) on the trail and thinking I'll buy another matching tire as a 2nd spare. I've split my side wall once on the trail and popped a bead once on the trail. Never know when a 2nd one is needed.

 

Driving thru potholes like goin thru a trail?

 

For me the time savings alone would be huge. You'd lose a full day at least having to drop it off, pick it up, find a ride.
I'd love a spray in liner but too much money and hassle for me. I hope I dont regret it one day. My have a nearly water tight tonneau so I think I'm a little ahead of the game with my drop in liner

 

Potholesmore like craters.

 

I dont think my 35's will fit under the bed....i hear people cutting off tabs, i dropped the spare today and thot maybe the tabs can just get taken off

 

The holes in the roads in ny, ct, mass are unreal. The winter time heaves up huge mounds and the plows destroy them. I've seen holes a foot deep and 3 feet around happen overnight. It sucks so bad.

 

I thougt so too but Linex quoted me $495 and another $150 for the premium. No thats not cheap but less than i wouldve thought!

 

Sink holes?

 

Gotta cut the the brackets for sure if you want the tire to be flush up to the frame.

 

Its just two tabs right? It looked like it was being held in by some screws, just not sure i could access them to take it off. How would that be cut? As in recip saw?

 

Yeah and do you guys get salt on the road? Not good for road or vehicles

 

Now they are saying that the chemical they spray on the road is worse than salt on the vehicles.

 

Okay time for bed, kinda tired and not feeling to good.
Have a great night.

 

Do you run trails with just one spare? Some of the guys here in SoCal recommend two full spares...

 

G'nite Jim....feel better.,

 

I wish they went back to sand and occasional salt. Back in the day the town I lived in just sanded the roads to add some traction. It was messy but it was just sand. Then when it was icy they would add salt to the sand. This wasnt great but it's better than what they use now. Now they spray a chemical down before it snows, they have to time it right. It helps melt it when it starts to fall. And supposedly helps the plows remove it easier. This stuff I horribly corrosive and its used everywhere . It costs residents of these states millions of dollars in repairs over the years. It's really really bad. To keep a car long term, you have to get under there and sand and paint areas and treat your frame and metal parts every year with some kind of oil, wax, or rust inhibiting coating. Even undercoating gets destroyed by this stuff. My buddy had his underbody and frame linex'd and the chemicals broke a lot of that down in one winter.

Yup it's very bad, highly corrosive and I'm sure you've noticed the nasty slurry it makes when it starts to melt the snow. It gets everywhere. I just got a fluid film spray kit, and I plan to spray my underside and engine bay very soon. I'll do everything underneath except the exhaust. Suspension, hitch, frame, body, brackets, steps, axle, nuts , bolts. Maybe even under my drop in bed liner. It's all getting sprayed every year, maybe twice a year. My truck had been through 3 winters and already looks pretty rough under there. I'm gonna change that with this fluid film. It actually cam help dissolve some surface rust from what I have read. You can use aerosol spray cans, maybe 4 to do the truck but I went all out with the air sprayer and bought a gallon of the fluid film

 

Omg, that is so not right! All the residents should get refund money for all the damage not just on the vehicles but what it could be doing to the environment! Im no activist but all those chemicals cant be good to any living thing!

 

I don't do trails or any offloading really. But I can say for certain if I did, especially for long trips, I'd have 2 spares, preferable full size.

 

I'm sure there will be a class action suit soon enough. Between the snow melt chemicals and then the road damage, its costs residents a lot of money in long term and short term damages, a lot of money.
I'm no activist either but I do think it's scary what it does to the environment. The grass on the side of the road never comes back in the spring like other grass does, trees near roads die, especially my beloved sugar maples. At my old house there were 2 nice maples about 10 feet off the road, one was probably 150 years old and the other 100, they were beautiful and lived all those years, within 3 years of the new chemical treatment, they were dead. They held up for probably 20 years of salt, but the chemical slurry killed them in 3

 

Mmmm, wish i had some pancakes right about now

 

I thought they used a brine and have heard of them using beet juice or potato juice on the roads in TN. Not sure what they are using for you guys up north

 

Took delivery Sept. 21, came from TX.

 

Wanna see my truck from today?? Put on my license plates!! Calif has personalized plates, its random numbers but in Black!!!