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

As someone who loves to work on car paint, I got silver. Hides almost everything. Some think it's boring and dull (it is). I call it easy to maintain. The car I like working on least has always been my own.

 

Looks like my buddy found a girl while at the service.. Looks like she just arrived at the dealership..

 

What a good looking couple.

 

Packing it for an off road ride tomorrow - anyone heading to Patriot Mountain?

 

Ummm… In North Carolina?

 

yes - near Boone

 

I need some better tires - yours look good - what kind are they and would you recommend them? @GrantA

 

Silver is a good one too. I just happened to find the right 4runner in white. Been on the trails many times and it still looks new. I just rejex it a couple times a year. My weekend car is dark blue but I had it opti-coated and clear bra'd when new, but even then I am ultra careful washing it. I don't want those worries with a daily driver though.

 

Yeah I like them but they are a little noisy compared to street tires. They are not cheap. 5 tires cost around $2400 with warranty and stuff through discount.

 

Dang I wish I knew. My wife is at a woman’s conference with the church so I have the 4 kiddos. I would take them as well but I also have set plans. Feel free to hit me up on your next planned trip and I will do my best to make it.

Also have fun and be safe. I haven’t been there but now I have it in my tdl.

 

When I was looking for Amber LEDs a few years ago, "Amber" seemed to cover yellow, orange, and anything in-between.

 

Added new shift knob today. I Like It!

I got it from this guy on Etsy. Out of the US, so shipping takes a couple weeks. Also in discussion with him about creating a smaller version that matches this, but with the 4WD shift pattern for the Transfer Case knob. Hope to hear something soon if he is able to create it.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/933037...m=724ae26d&ref=search_recently_viewed-3&sef=1

 

Interesting color if they have children.

 

I would assume it may be a beautiful one like..
I would name her "Luna"..

 

Doing a little 5th Gen R&D today

 

Bought a Prinsu rack, but UPS damaged it slightly in shipping! Thankfully the website I bought it from worked out warranty options with Prinsu and offered a bunch of great options. Now I just need to sell my current roof rack before I can install it!

 

I added some RCI rock sliders. Pain in the ass by myself, would have made a great 2-man job, lol

 

CBI full skids for some cat protection.

 

Very nice job! Looks great.

 

I only got jack stands and stock 4runner jacks. Mine sliders from RSG and I'm a little guy with no muscle, did all by myself.. Not very hard..
Planing to post the video soon.

 

I used a motorcycle jack, which was actually super helpful.

 

What Deer did to 4Runner the other night. Pictures don't really show the damage as well as in person. Marked less obvious in orange.

Back tire.

 

Long story short, accidentally purchased these LED lights (

Brawlee RGB LED Rear Glass Interior Light Bar for All Jeep Wrangler Hardtops 97-2023 Factory Look Easy Install by Done Right LED

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B088F6Y6CZ?ie=UTF8) and missed the opportunity to return them. On top of that, while water-resistant not for outdoors or water-proof, and likely will not last in Arizona's summer. Nonetheless, temporarily installed them under the driver-side roof rail but will permanently install them. While not capable of lighting up the neighborhood, they do provide a subtle light, use little power, stay cool, and have a white-black specific stealth profile (aside from the zip ties) when not in use. Possibly a market available if made for outdoor use.

 

Hair in the wheel. Never seen that before.

 

Deer t boned me last year, had to replace both driver doors and paint whole side. 5800 in damage

 

Finally done, got her primed tonight and gonna topcoat tomorrow

 

Neither had I until now. Only saw a flash almost at the same time heard/felt the impact. I can't figure out how it hit, was it attempting to jump? I was doing about 35mph. Tremendous amount of new home construction close to my house that are driving new patterns for critters. What use to be, 25 years ago, woods, open fields, even hobby farms of good size are now cookie cutter, one size fits all 2-story Drone dwellings.

Time for us to move further out.

 

I figured it was going to be above 4k to fix, prob more as you said. Had we been in Wife's go-cart height Camry I believe it would have maybe come through window.

 

Wow. She hit the tire hard enough push it in around the bead so it pinched fur before she bounced of. Hell of an impact to do that

 

Tell them when they paint it to take your factory roof rack off the body shop that did mine taped around it now you can see where it was now that I have a Gobi rack