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

Not sure how I feel about this plug. Of all things, an Allen wrench

 

I know for passenger cars, anything that close to the edge would be considered in the red zone and a shop wouldn't repair it...

 

Plugs get a bad rap but I've used them for over 40 years and never had one fail or even start leaking again. This one is pretty close to the edge but I would not have a problem with it. Shops will probably not patch one that close but I feel that's mostly because they want to sell you a tire.

 

Installed a Garmin Power Switch and if all goes well tomorrow, I'll get the C4 lo Pro bumper with high side additions and Washer tank cover installed. I have a 30" Baja Designs light bar going in it as well as upgrading the stock fog lights to Baja Designs too. I wanted to get the Garmin in before so I can run the light bar and Fog lights to it and control them from my phone.

 

The angle of the allen wrench has me a little sketched out. It was pointed towards the shoulder/sidewall. If it holds air the rest of the week I won’t worry about it.

 

@ipnpulz
How did things go?

 

You'll be fine I bet!

 

Well not good but not done yet they low balled me on my trade but have come up some and they’re not moving the price of the 4 Runner. So I walked out!

 

Good on ya
My old man passed away when I was a younger man, but I brought my father in law with me when I bought new in 2016 and he absolutely crushed the dealership negotiators. Pays to stand firm

 

End of month... Sales quotas... Prices may be softening...

 

Just bought my Toyota VSA from Jerry Johnson at Midwest Toyota. 35 years of new car buying and I never bought one before.

For $11.66 a month, whatever was covered under my 3-year/36,000 mile warranty is now a 10-year/100,00 mile plus even more. It even covers roadside assistance, gas delivery hotels and rentals if there's a problem that pops up while traveling.

To think, my dealership was starting at over $4,400.

 

nice rig - love that AG. Are these the "Smoked Amber" raptor lights or standard amber? also - What brand and size tires are those?

 

Well, if you by chance have cell service and maybe even without you can use your phone an App like Altimeter and it seems to work pretty well. I have checked it again my GPS as a number of times and they are rather close.

 

What is the total cost it is $11.66 over two or three years? Can anyone contact Jerry Johnson on this deal and if so do you contact info? I believe you can still sign up for extended warranty in the first year owning a new 4R.

 

@slar50
Jerry Johnson 800-530-5789 he will call back from his cell phone, usually.

The $11.66 is monthly over the 10 years that the vehicle service agreement is in effect. Toyota Financial Services treats this as an insurance policy of sorts. As I joked with them inaccurately, it's the price of two caramel ribbon crunch frappuccinos from Starbucks a month. It's actually less! I buy the big ones and those are $6.25 each.

Since Toyota handles the warranty from date of purchase and it won't lower the price if you buy it up to 3 years or 36,000 miles into the car's life, I bought it immediately. What could happen is the price can go up because, as we've seen through the political wranglings in this country, everything's getting more expensive by design. I doubt prices will be dropping for hard goods.

 

I bought 2 extended warranties in recent months from Jerry. Anyone can buy one before the 3 year/36k factory warranty expires.

 

Allocation comes out Thursday we’ll see what happens

 

If it were me, I would be looking at another dealership. It's kind of like pissing off a chef at a restaurant, I don't want to possibly taint my next meal deal.

Going to toyota.com, you can see inventory in the region. While I will never pit one dealer against another by telling a dealership somebody's pricing, I do invite dealers to "put your best foot forward and give me your best out the door pricing." I did that with my recent purchase and one dealership was $5,000 more. They kept acting as if they had a chance to sell me the same exact car with the only difference being that it was in silver metallic. CSM was my preferred first choice color, but it isn't worth $5,000 more than white. They were incredulous when I said I bought somewhere else.

Depending on what your trade is, you might do better just with a private sale using Auto Trader or something a little more focused towards serious car people.

PS I was ready to fly out to Arizona or even buy from Jerry Johnson at Midwest Toyota to get the color I wanted, because a one-way flight isn't that expensive. $5k, no way.

 

Over the last week:
Yota Xpedition TRD Pro style grille
New gen TRD Pro wheels on Yokohama Geolandar G015 in stock tire size

 

TRD rims with Lunar Rock totally rock. I'm not a big fan of the color, but it works with those wheels.

 

Well, I am hoping another dealer gets allocated what I want so I can go to another one…..

 

There are different levels of allocation. Manufacturing, transit by ship, arrival at port, on a truck... I just find a cool salesman at numerous dealerships and ask them to check through what's coming in and what stage it is at.

Don't be shy to look a little further away if somebody can give you a ride.

 

Do not trust the toyota websites. I checked for stock and drove all over to find nothing. Finally called the dealers and one about 50 miles away said they had 2 ORP's coming in and if I wanted one to put down a deposit. First time in auto shopping I got everything I wanted.

 

The post just above yours in this thread addresses that. There are different stages of allocation, going back to the factory.

 

Looks really good. Very timely post and pics!

I am in the market for tires now after my Toyos let me down. Ready to pull the trigger on the Geolander G015 as I am on the pavement way more than I would like. Can you give me the specifics regarding which load rating etc. as these look like what I 'need'...

 

Finally got the parts installed. Yota Xpedition Pro grill and black valances, TRD Pro skid plate (only bought that because the previous owner jacked up the bolts for the original skid plate), OEM black-out emblem kit, new 265 KO2's and I painted the stock wheels (DipYourCar). Not shown are the Husky floormats. I also gave it a serious detail. I really want to replace the nerf bars with sliders, but I'm not sure my wife will be able to get in it without the steps...

 

Love the clean look. I was gonna detail mine today but got called into work.

Le sigh....

 

Any opinions on debadging the rear pillars?

I have my reasons: Cleaning/waxing ease, being cool and mysterious, etc... Before I get it ceramic coated, I gotta make a decision.

 

I got rid of my stinking plastic badges, so much easier to wash and wax. Dental floss, goo-gone type solvent, and isopropyl alcohol do the trick.

 

I have a couple of variations to it... I use a hair dryer as the heat does loosen up the adhesive and the goo behind the adhesive and I will use WD-40 as the solvent on the adhesive that's left over. I have debadged everything I've owned since 2011, but the 4Runner is a different vibe, plus the name is obnoxiously on the back gate anyway.

I debadged a Subaru and got pulled over. I think the officer thought I was some racer kid. He walked around the car and wrote me up for a missing front license plate because he had nothing else on me. Jerk.