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

Let's go! Shoot us over some pictures!

 

Drove around some to break it in, play in the slush and mud a bit. I definitely have found that I prefer the manual transfer case as opposed to the electronic switch that my SR5 had.

I've got my build planned out for this one as well. I'm actually really happy with the stock Fox shocks & springs, so, I'm just focusing on armoring it up a bit: Going with RCI's aluminum skids this time and Victory 4x4's Strike sliders.

 

Haha! Prop shaft!! You must own a boat.

 

Swapped out front and rear silver valances for black ones on wife's 4Runner.

 

Looks great. Just out of curiosity, do you have to remove entire bumpers to replace valances. Much better imho

 

I didn't on the front but did on the rear. I think with the rear you have to to get at the clips. I watched a video on doing the front without removing the bumper, that being said, if the front bumper is as easy to remove as the rear, I would pull the bumper. The rear was way easier to replace the valance even with having to remove the bumper. With the front you have to remove some of the clips by feel only. Took me longer to do the front than the rear.

 

Black valances looks so much better, especially on the Army Green. Now you should black out the two silver trim pieces for the top grill to complete the look…

 

I looked up those pieces to switch out. I found them through Toyota but can't tell if they are black or not. Not sure which models have that piece in black or if any of them do.

 

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Toyota calls axles driveshafts and driveshafts propeller shafts. Go figure.

 

Thank you

 

You can do the rear with out removing it but its tight, I swapped mine without removing the bumpers. Front is easy the rear was hard on my hands reaching the clips but i was able to get it done.

 

Learn something new everyday

 

It’s more likely what she did to me.
I had about 26km range, then it dropped to 9km. Then to 1km range. But no warning lights and check out the fuel gauge. Software bug, most probably.

 

On the plus side, at least your climate control was telling you "Hi! Hi!"

 

It dropped before I switched to 4x4, so not that

 

Had you experienced a loss of traction (spinning) just before it happened? If so, the algorithm likely said, "I'm making lots of RPMs but I'm not going very far" and dropped the "expected" range based on that?

 

Did the gas light ever turn on?

 

@GenoBluzGtr nopes, no hard acceleration or anything
@nimby no, it did not, in the meantime we made it to costco and filled up - pump showed 71 liters, the most I ever filled up.

Edit: so i googled the 4R tank size, it says 87liters (23gallons).
I still had 16 liters of fuel, what is the reserve after you hit 0 on the gauge?

 

At Empty you should have roughly a gallon left in the tank as an OH LAWD last resort. Decades ago car manufacturers realized people’s perception of gas in the tank is real weird. When filling up people like to know that they have a full tank for a bit, which is why the needle doesn’t immediately go back down right when you start driving. Similarly, when you’re at empty, people actually want to have just a touch of fuel left over to get them to a fill up. So gas gauges are really only as accurate as manufacturers care, they’re mostly “eh close enough” gauges.

 

I've gone past the 0 miles left mark on the range estimator. It was similar to your situation where it dropped rapidly and skipped numbers on the way down. However, my fuel gauge was reading E and the low fuel indicator light turned on.

I probably went an additional 5 miles after hitting the 0 mark. I'm sure I could have gone further.

 

This was us literally yesterday

 

surprised someone here hasn't done the "how many miles past empty" test yet. there's always a forum member who just has to know exactly how far they can push it.

 

My 2018 user manual also says:
“Low fuel level warning light
Indicates remaining fuel is approximately 3.5 gal. (13.1
L, 2.9 Imp. gal.) or less”

And I’ve found that to be about true. I wouldn’t trust that range calculator very much. It does some sort of sampling/averaging algorithm with a built in huge safety factor.

On a recent road trip the low gas light went on, range display said 21 miles. I drove 20 miles to a gas station, the display said 1 mile left. I filled up, and it clicked off at 20 gallons, the most I’ve ever put in it. So with 3 gallons left at “empty” in the tank I still could theoretically have driven about 50 more miles.

 

The way they usually work is measuring the fuel flow. As a we all know, that changes. For example, you're driving down the highway at a constant speed and the fuel management system says "30 miles remaining". Go up a small but long hill, that number could drop to 12 remaining. All the prediction is is a prediction for right now at this fuel consumption rate.

 

Good analysis

 

Well today I picked up my C4 rear bumper (with swing outs and all, C4 gas skid, C4 rear diff skid. I am not looking forward to lugging around the added weight but man am I looking forward to the protection from these parts and having a spare tire again onboard (spare doesn’t fit underneath with the tire sizes I have).

 

Get that bumper slapped on and post the pics

 

So are you going to change the oil at 8,000 miles next?

 

I stalled a better USB/C charging port