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

Yesterday took the drive from NC to NY. First time in a long while for this trip. I notice the Wildpeaks are getting a little noisier at about 1/2 wear at highway speeds. Other than that a great trip and average was 20.3 MPG. not babying it, 75 a lot of the time and a good hour of crawling in bumper to bumper NY traffic reminding me of one of the reasons I left this State. I'm happy with that.

 

You never know

 

Took it out to some family land for extra curricular activities.

 

Making the reverse of that soon to spend a week in Pisgha and Dupont Forest ridding and hiking.
somehow I doubt I will get 20 ,pg with bikes hanging off the back, but if I can get close to that I'll be thrilled.

 

Opened Camp this weekend... ran some roads

 

The backorder I forgot to cancel came in so I guess this is what it gets today

 

Did mine the other day. Are your factory chrome lug nuts a lot longer than the new black ones? They fit fine, just thought it was weird they're shorter.

 

Yeah the silver ones are like 2x as tall. I hadn't tried these yet and was thinking to myself "I hope I didn't get the wrong ones", but the parts number says it fits. Definitely weird how much smaller they are though

 

Those tires look impressive!

 

I ordered some OEM black one back in November, and they were short too. They worked on some OEM black rims I found on FB market.

 

10ga power wire (fused) from battery to rear to run a fridge when needed. Don’t plan on 24/7 operation but when parked for a few hours or overnight.

Ran 10ga so that if I decide to add a solar panel at a later date it’s enough wire for that as well (100 watt potable panel that I use for other stuff)

The runner is my short term camp vehicle /daily driver. If I’m going out for a week+ I take the truck to haul more food/lot of water and other gear.

 

Well this is a handy feature

Appreciate the new word knowledge

 

I am undecided on the black lugs on TRD Pro wheels. I feel like there's just enough chrome on the headlights and taillights to kind of go with the chrome lugs... Hmmmm

 

Any follow-up on this? I have been hesitant on ordering the OEM black lugz because they look shorter? I am about to do 25K miles maintenance and figured if I am ordering filters, brake pads, might as well order the lugz!

 

I probably won't be doing mine until this weekend but if you look up that part number it fits pretty much everything, I also couldn't find any part number for a longer black lug nut and it seems others have already used them with no issues ... so I can pretty confidently say we should be good to go. But will be 100% after this weekend.

 

Yeah it was the first thing I noticed when we bought it, but also has been put down the list because the other stuff is more fun haha I will probably order them since I am ordering other items.

 

@wax poetic @Trees91 @playdixie @MeefZah @dgrenier15

any REAL reason why you wouldn’t want to?
Not like cosmetically but more so function?

if they work, is there a downside to them being shorter such as accessing them, scratching wheel to access, yaddayaddayadda?
Or just personal preference?

just curious if there is something I’m missing when/if I ever get new wheels let alone lugs haha

 

looks good/good plan

In the midst of wrapping up rear power
Routed scene lights last night
SO close to being done ALL the electrical foreshadowed legwork

 

This is only for oem wheels as far as I know, as a lot of aftermarket rims may have a different seat. I'm assuming the tall boy, chrome lugs just have a lot of extra room in the tips of them like a condom haha. That being said the only reason to do this is cosmetic. There will be no other gain of any sort. They may be slightly more difficult to access but I imagine that will be negligible as well as the oem wheel is pretty open. So for me, no, there is no reason I wouldn't want to add them as they look way better (my opinion) and have no real downside.

 

Same as @wax poetic, purely cosmetic. My only hesitation with the shorter was someone else working on the rims. I have heard plenty of stories of installers scratching up rims/lugz or stripping them because they don't care, so I didn't know if the shorter ones would be more difficult/increase the chances of someone messing them up when needing to do tire rotation/balance.

 

added a ram mount to the rago fab dash mount. very solid!

 

Added Falken Rubitrek A/T (265/70r17). A lot of bang for the buck with these ($187/ea). I previouly ran them on a GX, and they have always balanced and ridden well.

 

Those look great and the price is fantastic. Im going to have a difficult time choosing between those and the Baja Boss AT in the fall.

 

I also run the Rubitreks, in stock size, and they are great especially for the money. Hopefully they don't jack the price up like every other "good" tire after the manufacturers realize they are popular.

 

Follow up to this post. Killed a lot of bugs and one of them must have been the size of a small bird lol!

 

I’ve driven pickup trucks for the past 10+ years… along with SUVs and sedans in our household.

I’ve never had a vehicle slaughter bugs quite like the ‘runner does. I’ve given up on having a clean windshield.

 

Try driving a FJ Cruiser for bug slaughtering.

 

Yeah, I recently did a trailhead shuttle with my 4R and my buddy's FJ (my first time riding in one). It's a great vehicle, especially with the upgraded suspension, but it's a rolling billboard. It also has a lot less passenger/cargo capacity than the 4R.

 

Removed the front and rear mud flaps and replaced the rears with Ark covers. Looks good! Will get some pics to post up!

 

That's why the grill mod was the best bang for the buck. Keeps them fuckers out of the radiator.