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

It's sad I feel ACCOMPLISHED by these 2 things:

1) Got the dreaded TPS sensors replaced and light finally off my dash. Bought some sensors off FB market that were OEM. Guy bought them for his Tacoma, but weren't right ones. Paid $140 for 5 new still in box sensors. Quite the steal!

2) Got my sunroof reprogrammed. Mine is aftermarket from previous owner. A quick search on YT found that if you hold the vent button for 3-5 seconds, you'll hear a CLICK sound. After, that it's closed and opened all the way. It started acting funny other day by not opening all way and then not at all. For now, it opens up all way.

 

I have the same issue you have (had). My TPMS doesn't work. It hasn't since the day I bought it. Long story short: I bought the truck, then took it DIRECTLY to Discount Tire for new tires. They broke two of the TPMS sensors. They replaced them, reprogrammed them, but I couldn't get them to register tire pressure. After a few months of back and forth, I gave up. Discount Tire hooked up a machine to disable the alerts I would get in the head unit or on the dash.

I've often wondered if I bought a set of 4 OEM's would it work the way it should? I don't want to waste the money on something that 'may' work.

 

Installed Jesse's Camping Mod kit. Definitely one of the more time consuming DIYs..at least for me but well worth it.

 

Parked the 4Runner at the Overland Expo today and escaped without spending any money!

 

You went to the Overland Expo and DID NOT spend any money? At all?

I knew you weren't really one of us!

 

. I had to exit quickly.

 

Comparing the simplicity…locks, window, hatch
To its usefulness

Total game changer

 

Love this! Do you have a link for it?

 

Hello and Welcome! What are you referring to? Rausch Creek? https://www.rc4x4.org/

 

Got a lovely dent in my 8 week old baby repaired.

 

Thanks for the link to Raush Creek. Just googled it. Were 222 miles away from that. Also was looking at your front bumper/guard. Where did you get it?

 

@BettyWhite Unfortunately it's a company that did great fabrication but did not manage the business very well, never really recovered from the shut down and supply chain BS. Then they screwed over quite a few people as they shut their doors, basically over night. There are similar designs out there.

 

What did that cost you? I have a dent just like that, but lower on the passenger side door. It's a very small dent/crease that has been bugging the hell out of me for months.

 

Let us know what you think about it

 

Nice repair job. I see you have door edge guards to prevent you from doing that to another vehicle, but someone else didn't return the favor.

 

$150

 

Just got done changing the oil, filter and greasing the driveshafts!

 

My 2020 SR5P rolled over 50k miles on the way home from a family trip to Sam's Club

Time to do the transfer case and differential fluid change.

 

Nice! Are those covers or new seats? Where did you get them?

 

Just snagged a deal with my coupon from 4Runner Lifestyle! Did a quick makeover: black to RED and ditched that blingy chrome ring. Who knew a little color change could bring so much joy? Feeling like I should start a new trend: 'Ringing in the Red!' ❤️ #4RunnerLifestyle #ModLife"

 

Ordered redline fluids for TC and diff fluid swap. 20% at Oreilly helped save some $, too.

 

Maybe a tiiiiiny bit. It wouldn't be the most horrible thing in the world for a dude to admit he may be wrong, even if he doesn't think so. Same for women. Everyone would be a lot easier to tolerate if we occasionally took a bit of personal responsibility for ourselves and said "Oops. I fucked up." If I hadn't gone out to AutoZone and spent that $15 dollars and trusted myself to handle the situation, I would have had to give an otherwise avoidable ass-chewing to my other half for not taking my word on this over having read something in passing on this forum and not acted upon it.

 

Replaced oil and filter, rotated tires, greased driveshaft and installed new wiper blades on the 2011.
Drove to Granddaughter's birthday party.

 

What blades did you go with? My Bosch icons are due for replacement. Lasted me 14 months.

 

Keep the OE blades and replace the rubber insert with the one from Toyota

 

Toyota from Dealership

 

Had the 6112/5100 lift installed with the Dr. KDSS spacers...

 

Vikings Garage has a great video on keeping the OEM wipers and swapping out the inserts.

 

I don't have OEM wipers anymore, so it will have to be something aftermarket.