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

After I installed my lift I've been debating about putting wheel spacers on just the front. Well today I did, since I had a pair of spidertrax in the garage. Now I absolutely love the stance. -12 offset and 1.25" spacers



Rubs like a s.o.b though, bmc and extra trimming happening next week.

 

Took the 4Runner to the beach for the first time. It is interesting driving mud terrain tires on sand. Probably not the best tires but it made it more interesting. Even put on the front and rear lockers and it was fun going up the sand mounds. Anyways picture time…

 

Air them down to about 15-18 psi and see how you like them.

 

Oh I did. I had them at 15. They were much better than aired up. But still a little too chunky for sand. I believe tires that have smaller lugs would be better. But they went through everything so no complaints.

 

Because for a while you will enjoy the throttle response a little too much.

 

This is the first concept of the next Gen 4Runner that I actually like. Too much red in that interior though.

 

New Husky X-act Contour floor liners. Installed them myself

 

Looks like the Rav4 Grill/Valance with the Highlander interior.

 

Fra gee lay. They must be Italian.

 

I’m ever evolving everything. Good suggestion tho, just don’t wanna pick it off or fight it adding more stuff later. Unless I’m in hood deep water nothing will ever get in there

 

Winch and Whiskey (To be installed and consumed in a few weeks)

 

The wait is finally over! Gobi no rise stealth rack installed

 

Looks awesome!!

 

Hardwired this outdoor light to be turned on from inside primarily for when unfamiliar noise is heard outside, hopefully, to scat away whatever it is.

 

Well the Ironman recovery rope came came into use for the first time twice today…
https://youtu.be/cN3s4X3-A3M

Helped recover 2 vehicles (Jeep and F250).
What did I learn today… my mud terrain tires actually kicked butt today. They weren’t as bad as I thought. 13-14 PSI.
What I learned… use low gear when recovering. I put extra unnecessary stress on the poor thing… but surely learned my lesson the first time and didn’t repeat that mistake on the F250 pull (Granted it was a lot easier).

 

The interior looks like it is the same as the Rav 4 and the exterior is good except the roof rack is sitting so high. Is it to much to ask for a good low profile roof rack?

 

Amen on the low profile roof rack. 3/8” roof clearance and 2” high rails, relocate/eliminate the shark fin - simple.

I suck at welding, so a friend helped me out getting my panhard bar angle right. Finally got the damn thing out of my tool box. lol No more pothole ass wiggle!

 

Pedal Commander install - works surprisingly well and the phone app is a nice touch

 

Modding my Jerry can holder added a platform to carry my table and a few quick fists and super fists. Also relocated cb antenna

 

You get your links installed?

 

Installed the map and dome lights from meso as well as the black housing depot tail lights from usr. The factory tail lights were harder to remove than expected. BTW meso is releasing redesigned interior door handle covers any day now. Cali raised off road has them for pre order. Use code MTNTACO for 23$ off order on unique style racing for the tail lights. 247$ total. Same exact build quality as the oem and same gasket. Map and dome lights are still available on caliraisedoffroad

 

Man it’s on the list lol. Gonna start them as soon as I get the first coat of paint on my carrier. Also having a tough time inch worming my cb coax to reach. So many half finished projects not enough time lol

 

Totally understand you there man.

 

Spray painted my wheels's emblems

 

I love mine. I have had mine for over a year now. I run Sport +1 with my 285/70/17s. I put some velcro on the inside of the kick panel and stuck it there out of the way. Keeps me from playing with it (out of sight out of mind).

 

I wonder why cali raised has them on their site but meso doesn't have the interior door handle covers.
Looking forward to grabbing a pair.

 

Cali is a dealer for them. You can see it listed on mesocustoms.com. I'm assuming they have an allocation coming in within the next week or so and they've just decided to offer pre orders. Meso will prob post a notification on there site a day before they come in just like they did with the map lights. Others offered the map lights on pre order prior to meso releasing them. Meso has told me in email to expect a release any day. They also confirmed the hatch lights are still being made and released at some point. They have a shipment of redesigned handle covers and dome lights they expect to receive any day. That's from them

 

Hi Matt,

The map lights will be released any day. They showed up yesterday and we tested them today. The handles are in redesign production and should be shipping to us any day too. Dome lights should be shipped to us with the door handles.
Austin S,
MESO Customs

This was like a week before they released the map lights. I'd suggest you pre order when you can. Meso sold out of map light stock within 3 or 4 hours

 

I take them straight and they sometimes turn when I upload them. Idk what’s going on lol