What have you done to your 5th Gen 4Runner today?

nice! where & what color did you get.. only option i saw was smoke.. looks pretty dark (which i want) against black 4R and tints..

 

I bought these ones from Amazon:
Auto Ventshade AVS 894027 Low Profile Dark Smoke Ventvisor Side Window Deflector, 4-Piece Set for 2010-2020 Toyota 4Runner

$90 Auto Ventshade [AVS] Low Profile Ventvisor / Window Deflectors | Fits 2010 - 2024 Toyota 4Runner, 4 pcs. | Dark Smoke - 894027

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B19SEVG?_encoding=UTF8

 

thanks! i did see those. that 1st image looks very light. I assuming that's just the pic. yours look very dark. you think it will be ok for a black 4R.. don't want any of the "light" smoke to throw it off.. i see up to 2020..I have a 21

 

I imagine it will fit 21 as the 4Runner body hasn’t really changed. I think it will look good but I can send you a picture tomorrow with it against the black door rails and you can let me know what you think.

 

thank you! i appreciate you taking to time to do that..

 

Did some wheeling in talladega forest in Alabama

 

Installed mine the other day, agree on both fronts!

 

Here is the picture I just took. Looks like it would look good on black.



Inside looking out with the sun shining through it:

 

thanks again for the detailed pics! looks good, I think it will be fine.

 

Tearin down on a 25 degree morning

 

I installed an accessorides remote start kit. Took a little over an hour. Not terribly hard, but the panel clips don’t release as easy for me as they do on the YouTube install video.

 

Nice, please tell us a little more about your installation, where you purchased … also is that just a flashlight or did you install a glovebox light & small old school push-in switch so when lid closes up it shuts off?

 

Installed Bilstein 5100’s, 2.5 inch lift all around.
Trd Pro wheels, with 275/70/17 General Grabbers. TRD Pro Roof Rack.
Before and after pics added.
2022 TRD Sport.

 

Truck looks great!

 

Super easy mod - floor mats and cupfone.

 

I wanted to post this once I had confirmed it worked well. Essentially, not being a complete Blue Sea fan, I like their gauges though, I installed a 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee PDU(A/K/A) "fuse box" to distribute power from my secondary battery to whatever I added on down the road such as a fridge, lights, GAU-8/A, what have you. "Heresy!" Jeep parts into a Toyota..lol. But wait it gets better!

I found some cheap ditch lights and mated them with some Cali-raised low profile mounts. Cali-raised makes some good stuff! I had seen a couple of posts somewhere on the interwebs describing how to use the Wireless 'Home-Link' buttons to control wireless relays. The Home-Link buttons are pretty useless to me as is because I don't have a garage and don't live behind a gate. So off I went to Amazon and found a cheap Chinese POS wireless relay. The key to this is it has to be a 'latching' relay not momentary. Latching will keep the wireless relay closed allowing lights to stay on and not go off once you release the 'Home-Link' button.

Now I have three buttons that can be used and not have the need to hardwire to the dash. I'm not sure I will keep it this way. I just wanted to see if I could make it work. I have a fancy hard switch that lights up on the bench waiting. If I do decide I like this I'll be getting a much more robust, industrial type relay and not rely on the current one as I don't trust it. The PDU is mounted on a shelf from C4 Fab as I was going to mount an AC there but decided against.

Programming the 'Home-Link' buttons, if your 4Runner is equipped, is straight forward, but you have to follow the manual exactly. $30 for the junkyard fuse box. $15 bucks for relay. I had some plastic restorer and fuse box looks like it belongs there.
YMMV

 

Nice! … What did the tires run you? … How they ride?

 

Pro rack delete!!!

 

Hey were $850 out the door at discount tire. They ride great!

 

Here's my writeup for the console storage box light on the other forum.

 

The part number for the dual USB is 00016-00225

 

A very long story short Jul 2020, ~six months into ownership, a hail storm in Kansas pummelled the 4Runner (every piece of blue tape a hit). Took it to a national chain repair body shop and they repaired the vehicle, with too many shortcomings to list. Summer 2021, found rust in all four roof rack anchor points when installing solar panels, likely from the poor hail repair since they removed the roof then. Tomorrow, 10 Jan 2022, taking the 4Runner to a local Toyota dealer body shop because NOT wanting to return to where the initial repair was done. Didn't take it to Toyota for hail repair because Toyota is NOT experienced with hail in Phoenix, AZ and the other company said they repaired many dealer vehicles in the last hail storm in Phoenix, AZ in 2010. Unfortunately, because Toyota has to drop the roof liner they were going to charge me for that work, and who knows what a mess they would make. So today, I had to remove the in-progress built before dropping it off tomorrow.

 

Made rotopax mount with their plate and couple of extruded L shape aluminum bars from home depot (painted).
Just a fun project, don't know if I'll ever use them or not. Probably going to make a lot of noise on the freeway. I could have put the cross bars closer and mount the plate directly on to the yakima mighty mounts but didn't want to reduce the pitch stability of the yakima doublehaul fly rod vault.

 

Got started with my molle panels today. Was going to treat the 4runner to a touchless wash, but I lost my credit card, sigh…. The card probably just decided to escape due to all the abuse it’s getting.

 

Removed the factory Yakima rack yesterday. Super easy once I found the keys to the locks.

 

I finally got around to putting a 12v connector inside the dash and running all my power cords into the dash to clean up the wiring that was everywhere.

 

saw one in Austin the other day for the first time.

 

How'd those tires perform? I have those tires saved in my Tire Rack account but I wanted to see what this forum has to say about them. I haven't been able to find any reviews of them. Also what size are your tires in these photos? They look huge!

 

Swapped out my overlay'd emblems with just black emblems. Wasn't a fan of the bloated letters nor filled in gaps.

Before



After



Rear Hatch