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

Installed TRD CAI today!

 

Oh nice. So what are your impressions so far? I want to do a CAI. Not sure who’s.

 

Took the 4Runner out on its first trail run in North Carolina. Gotta put the arb rear locker to use. Don’t think I needed it but I had it so why not. Definitely different experience than off-roading in Arizona. Both have benefits and I can’t help but miss the jaw dropping views in Arizona. Hoping to find some here in North Carolina. Might have to head to the smoky mountains for the views.
To those that are interested I took the following trail:
Uwharrie OHV Trail on AllTrails
https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/north-carolina/uwharrie-jeep-trail

 

Wait, what? You can’t pump your own gas in NJ? What happens if you try? I don’t know if I’m for that. Just leave me alone and let me do my thing.

Sounds like some sort of Union/mob thing. Like a shakedown. Someone explain please.

 

Getting the weboost mounted up

 

So I had my 10K service done today and I was walking the lot and spotted this......

 

Should have seen the salesman's face when he walked up and said can I help you and my reply was your dealership is smoking crack and using a cactus to fuck someone sideways and I am ashamed that I bought a vehicle here .....

 

Underneath the chicken scratch was $10,000 dealer market adjustment

 

They must have better crack there than here

 

Its some powerful stuff I take it....

 

Playing Lego with my 3 weeks old..
(Installed scanguage and a cheap wireless front cam I got fromAmazon). Will post details in future.

 

While it pales in comparison to the other efforts posted here... I swapped out the stock Duelers for Toyo Open Country’s and took them for a run today. They feel great at 50-70 on the highway.

However, I am getting some rubbing from the passenger front when backing up with full counter-clockwise steering. I was not expecting that with stock sized (Venture) 165/70R17 tires. Looks like the rubbing is on the liner.

Also tried out a new Slumberjack Roadhouse tarp in the driveway. Looking forward to sleeping under it on my next camping/starparty trip this summer.

 

So on a whim I bought this hood protector with lights. When the box arrived I wasn’t sure that I was going to install it... I decided to do it and I’m really happy with it. Took a whole 30 minutes to install. Great product. AMS.

 

Tires look great! I am shopping tires and these are first on my list with General Grabber atx as a second. where did you get your Toyo's? Discount tire and tire rack both are on national back-order for them. Looks like i might be going with the atx i just wish they were blackwall, sucks almost everything in our factory size is white letters..

 

I did a lot of reading through the forum. Many good choices out there but the Toyo’s fit my use (long highway trips, rocky river trails and broken lava fields, occasional snow/ice on road) and they look great. I got them at Discount Tire. They had none in Beaverton OR but brought a set down from Seattle in a day.

 

Used the Trd Pro to Tow the Boat so I could go catch some fresh Rainbow and Cutthroat Trout for Dinner... it went well

 

Did you relocate the data port?

 

Only drove about 20-30 miles with it on and so far I like it. Not sure if it’s the placebo effect taking place on me... but I do “feel” like the throttle response is better than stock.

Not to mention, I think my exhaust is slightly louder (TRD exhaust). As far as engine noise, it is definitely louder when I put my foot on the gas 2000+ rpms, even more so when I tried flooring it. Is it worth $400+? I think so cause I’m enjoying it so far. There are other options where you may get better performance, but I bought the TRD CAI because I wanted to stick with the Toyota brand.

 

Not yet. Scanguage is on double side tape. The USB drive is hiding behind it.

 

I've been putting of moving mine to that spot (lazy). When i put in comms, is when i will need to do it.

 

Since I don't plug in my phone there I don't need it. I remove the USB drive like once a year to copy new songs. I just use those flush type quick charger things to plug in our phones to the 12v outlet. I love those SanDisk USB drives for their discrete look. It's hard to tell that there's a USB drive in there.

For someone who plug in their phone for Apple carplay or Android auto better to relocate it.

 

Yes, yes! Thanks for letting me know. The experience sounds real good so far. I have a ‘21 Pro too, less than 200 miles. Traded in ORP for it. Yes I have that dilemma stick with TRD theme for performance mods or go other way. I have been leaning towards S&B intake after reviewing that one & others. We will see. I have just spent some hundreds on materials I will use for drawer and sleep system for cargo deck, so I need to chill just a little bit. I like to camp and other activities, shooting on the BLM lands around here.

 

My trusty old F-150 is starting to rust out pretty badly and probably needing to be traded in here before long. We were in town, so, we drove around the lots of a couple local dealerships looking at trucks. Came across a stock 4Runner for sale at one dealership that happened to be at the end of the row, I knew what I had to do! I parked my 4Runner next to it so I could see how much different it looked between stock and my lifted SR5P. *laughs*

I was amazed at how much different mine looked compared to stock. Going from seeing mine stock and then lifted I knew there was a difference, obviously. I just didn't realize how different until I parked next to another stock one and saw the two together.

 

Found my battery sliding around in the battery tray. Must habe come loose... Hate finding issues after being at the dealer.

 

Let me know how the front camera goes... I am interested in doing the same thing because I hate having my wife get out to spot me on things

 

I did the same thing the other day... here is the picture...

Mine is the middle one.

 

Nice! I wish I'd have grabbed a picture of mine at the time, but, the weather sucked and I had a salesperson heading my way to see if I was interested. *laughs*

 

Installed Cali raised ditch light brackets and there 8gang switch panel. With some squadron sports