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

Wow, that's some excellent coverage. Hell, those things probably even dampen road noise just a bit!

 

Really straight-forward, a second pair of hands really help. I am very happy with the whole set up. Good luck

 

Tinted and installed a set of Spotter Mirrors!

I’ll have to get a photo.

Edit: Added

 

Drove the 4R out to our outdoor gun range this morning and this dinosaur was sunning himself down by bay 6. About 9 feet.

 

Good thing you were at the gun range....

 

Not too much done today. Upgraded the 3rd brake light to the new Morimoto one from 4Runnerlifestyle. And put a Mr. Grinch on rear ladder to go with the Christmas Lights. Try not to laugh too much at Mr. Grinch. It's not perfect.

 

You're gonna kick him in the nutsack if you use that ladder.

Teeth, too.

 

Does this brake light blink 3 times upon pressing the pedal when you engage it?

 

He deserves it! ( Mr. Grinch that is!)

 

Time to go back to stock.

 

Why’s that?

 

Had to disassemble them to remove them, top nut is rusted solid. Took me 30 minutes per side. Been on the truck less then 3 years (one of them it was parked in the garage) and anti seize was used. Going to soak them, but not worth the hassle.

 

Went back to stock on all four at almost a year exactly. Over-priced garbage trinkets with high risk of destroying your front CV boots. Live and learn.

 

Geez. Ok good call. I was looking at these but now it looks like ditching the sway bar is much safer haha

 

Added some Predator Tube Steps…..

 

Took my seat covers off for the first time in bout 7 years n added “seat jackers” plus some sheep skin
Ill get to that later

QUICK HELP QUESTION

I’m finally upgrading my winch wiring n my query is bout length…

Now ideally-
Is it better/more important for the wires between the battery n control box to be shorter?
Or control box to winch?

Determines which side of the truck I mount the box

really appreciate it

Edit:
scratch that
Going with shorter to battery, the increase in length to control box is minimal

 

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Where did you get them? So hard to find ones that fit like that.

 

Did the annual take the wife to breakfast & then get Xmas tree.

 

I was allowed back on the forum today after a suspension. Noticed others made politically-oriented comments in the past months without any suspension. So just me I guess. Either way, I understand and am glad to be back!

 

You only take her out once a year? Sheesh...you're a bad husband!

 

Nah, Just the Friday after Black Friday (Weather permitting) we do that routine. She get's taken out every weekend for dinner usually. P.S. I always open & close the door for her too.

 

If you think it is comparable in political-nature, give those posts a report, plenty tends to fall under the radar only to be zapped later.

The mirrors, I got from spottermirror.com with a slight discount for Thanksgiving/Black Friday.

They installed fine, although the directions state that the included wires (for the heater) aren’t required for installation but the connector prongs are farther apart than on the factory mirror and are required in my case.

It doesn’t have the plastic lip around the perimeter like the factory mirrors have and doesn’t feel as high quality so if you don’t care as much about spotter mirror location like I did, I’d consider the RAV4 mirror swap instead.

My driver’s side mirror has a tiny chip on the edge from one edge presumably bumping into the edge of the other mirror while I drove with them laying in the passenger seat, so definitely transport with more care than I did.

The tint itself was from AntiGlareCustom’s on Etsy.

I bought a set a while back but had to cut it to fit these mirrors. Not difficult and I did it before the mirrors were installed which made it easier. But I’m spotting a couple small bubbles I didn’t see before so whoops!

I’m not sure yet if the effort of tinting the spotter mirror was worth it yet.

I didn’t heat the clips like the instructions required and they all seem to have engaged fine. The factory mirrors came off mostly unscathed but I used a plastic trim prying tool and a half of a couple clips broke on the driver’s side mirror but it still looks like it’ll hold if I have to put them back.

 

Put one in the vise and yeated it with the impact. Didn't think the Milwaukee was going to do it, but she's a beast. There's 1/2 to 5/8" of thread gone. Guessing some of the metals didn't play well together.

 

$101 ?! Are you using Premium 93 octane? It takes any Regular such as 86 octane. It’ll save you thousands each year.

 

Unless he's super charged.

 

I have those too and love them! Well worth the money! 5-star customer service. I asked for extra Velcro and they sent it within the same day, no questions asked, and they didn’t even ask for extra money

Nope, using 87 octane. CA gas prices are insane.

 

Not super charged. Just outrageous CA gas prices.

 

And here I was complaining about 2.49 locally at Walmart in my Miss'ippi town. But according to Gasbuddy.com lowest in our state is $2.20. State average is $2.58.