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

The top was an absolute BITCH.
The bottom I did in less than 20 minutes with grille installed. The top took me 2 tries and that was with it out of the truck laying face up on a table. She was just being mean for that one!

 

What did I do to my 4runner today? I loaded 2 MTB's on it. We had a blast! I also ordered new Nittos for my wife's 18 Nautica Blue 4runner. Productive day!

 

Today I added LED lights to the center console storage. Like many others I used a mercury switch to turn them on. I picked up 12 volts from the rear seat USB outlets. I used Posi-Tap connectors for the 12 volt connection. Easy and cheap mod. And well worth it.

 

I reclaimed it!!

My wife has been driving it for about a year now and she decided she wanted a Subaru Crosstrek instead; manual tranny, easier on gas, easier to park, that itch for something new I guess.

So we sold my Tacoma, and ordered her a 2022 MGM Crosstrek Premium 6MT.

I then spent about 2 hours fixing her biffs and cleaning out her nastiness from the 4Runner. Shit everywhere. Hadn't been vacuumed since the last time I did it before I gave it to her. Windshield cracked. Driver's mirror plastic cracked from her driving in into the side of the garage. Moss growing in the third brake light. I think there was a dead mouse or some other golf-ball sized smelly thing covered in fur under the back seat.

Deep cleaned it. Mended the mirror. Reinstalled my gun rack and HAM radio that she hadn't wanted in there. Cleaned it a second time. Reinstalled my recovery gear and tools. Changed batteries in flashlights. Checked over everything. Somehow she timed it to give it back to me with '22 miles' left on the tank. Gassed it up. Ung.

It's good to go now. It'll see infrequent use now, save for trips, since I have a commuter car to drive daily. I'm quite happy to have it back under my control and care - she's a great wife, but a nasty fucking goat when it comes to car care. And I honestly have missed driving it... such a great vehicle.

I sold the Tacoma for $29,500. I bought it for $29,400 a year and 20,000 miles ago. A guy is flying here from Sacramento on Tuesday and driving it back... which makes me think I underpriced it (Base 4wd 4cyl SR Utility). The Subaru is $24,500 and it's spec'd the way she wants it, actually built for her since Subaru takes orders. No markup. I can't believe you can buy a new car for that, and still somehow capitalize on the used car price increases when you sell. Crazy times.

 

A 4R rescue, nice!

 

How long is the wait for the Subaru?

 

Early June.

I told her if she fucks up the 4Runner between now and then I am leaving her. I also left a packet of Pledge Wipes on the driver's seat to motivate her accordingly.

 

My nephew ordered a Outback Wilderness in early March. It's supposed to show up in May.

 

Very nice. Source for the AVS?

 

Amazon

 

Awesome mod, do you have a link to the DIY for this?

 

This is where I got the idea . Read all the posts. A few posts later improved on the initial concept. I wired my two LEDs together and switched the negative. Then just ran one pair down to the 12 volts.

Good Luck, this is an easy one.

 

Not super happy about this

 

How did you get that mall crawling?

 

Those Parking lots are getting crazy!

 

this was very challenging.. had to cut out the pattern and the area to feed the wires through for the raptor lights on the rain gutter guard..had to take off top portion of grille.. def like the full look on top and bottom of grille..

 

It looks just swell!
Good work hangin in there with it!

 

thanks bro! took a while and foul language but that’s always a given when a newbie works on cars lol..

 

Jbweld

 

Very cool. Please share more detail if you have the time to do so!
Great mod!

 

Needs a sarcasm emoji.

 

Damn! Hit something, or just shitty luck?

 

Proof that you wheel, bro! I’d park it with the wheel turned like that everywhere I’d go

 

Swapped out stock Fox w/ Westcott suspension to Ironman stage 2 FCP’s.

p.s. Fox + Westcott setup is up for sale in Marketplace

 

Awesome!!! ​

 

Nothing much, just staring at the sky ..

Apart from the jokes I should see if I could move the front camera display closer to the windshield so I don't have to look down and then again front. (Screen cap from dash cam video sticked up high. From drivers view I'm pretty blank where I'm going other than cheap Amazon front cam display.)

 

What wheels are those? Are you running wheel spacers with them or whats the offset?

 

black rhino Primm. -10 offset and 1.25” spacers

 

I figured spacers since they poke out quite a bit, stance looks great!

 

Shitty luck. Was on a desert road in Death Valley. Didn't hit anything, just cruising down the dirt road.

Lol good idea.