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

Same method for applying plastic shine. Side note, do not ever use tire shine on your engine. Use interior detailer, something like Meguiar's leather conditioner. Leaves a beautiful shine and lasts quite a while since under normal conditions very little water gets up under there. When doing your wash / detail, engine first, interior 2nd, exterior last. Keeps dust and overspray off the paint that way. I take detailing very seriously lol

 

I would have to disagree with using leather conditioner on the engine as they contain aloe and moisturizer oils. A water base product is the best for the plastics,rubber,vinyls and taped items under the hood.

Tire shine is a BIG no no under the hood some contain a petroleum base and don’t use armor all ever on anything....

 

I use Meguiar's Gold Class Rick Leather conditioner on everything. Dash, seats, plastics, everything top to bottom. It's my favorite treatment and it leaves an awesome shine on everything. A little goes a long way with that stuff.

 

It is great stuff just not under the hood and is most likely the best stuff on leather as designed. A lot of the interior on vehicles today are synthetic or composites and will damage easily with wrong chemical products.

 

What do you use under the hood?

 

https://www.4runners.com/threads/wh...th-gen-4runner-today.2261/page-179#post-99162

 

I am a huge fan of chemical guys products I went to there place out in Cali 2 yrs ago and talked with them for hours. These guys have done some really really in depth research and have come up with some really great stuff.

 

Here is my goodies I use ....now this was right after some shit stick took all my detailing stuff from my garage one day!

 

I have never used chemical guys stuff so I can't speak on it either way. I can tell you I love Meguiar's professional grade stuff. I use their #7 glaze, yellow #26 pure wax, gold class car wash, along with a number of their other products. I have always been very happy with the results. I may try using their hyper dressing on the engine next time around.

 

They make awesome stuff I have some of there waxes I use along with

$21 Collinite 845 Insulator Wax-Easy to Use Carnauba+Polymer Wax Sealant-High Gloss Shine+Durable Hydrophobic Beading & Long Lasting Paint Protection for Cars/Boats/Trucks/RVs & Motorcycles (16 fl oz)

Collinite 845 check out autogeek for some amazing products as well....

 

I think you have a Chemical guy s retail store now in MD somewhere here it is....

DETAIL GARAGE GLEN BURNIE
7164 E. Furnace Branch Rd Suite A Glen Burnie, MD 21060

(410) 760-1238

Mon: CLOSED

Tues - Fri: 10am to 6pm

Sat: 9am to 5pm

Sat: 9am to 3pm

 

Collinite 915 is something I plan on trying in the very near future. It'll be my next wax purchase when my #26 runs out.

 

I was feeling guilty with all your beautifully detailed engine bays so I had to pop the hood on it and clean it after this weekends trip!




All joking aside, I am washing it tonight as soon as it is out of the sun, probably won't touch the engine bay other than what I already did with the emblem and to change the air filter

 

From Eddy at SOS CONCEPTS @ovrlndkull


***ATR*** August 28th-2nd Appalachian Toyota Roundup

We are excited to be apart of this year's event. With this excitement we are offering a 15% discount on every order for people that are attending ATR with free shipping. The sale will run from Aug 1-5th. If you order in this time frame you'll get 15% off and I will personally deliver all the orders to the event for you to pickup. We will also have hands on deck for Minor installs if need be. For the event sale use code ATR19 and use in shop pickup. Tag your buddies and please share PS. NO SWING OUT BUMPERS OR ALUMINUM

http://sosoffroadconcepts.com/

 

Here ya'll go. We may be kinda crazy for doing this but it is the Toyota community that has gotten SOS where it is and we want to do something special for ya'll.
https://www.4runners.com/threads/appalachian-toyota-roundup-sale.10373/#post-99292

 

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Same here....

 

I am a guy and I don't always get it!

 

LOL...Shit Stick! HAHAHA nice one!

Sucks that someone robbed you but "shit stick"...PRICELESS!!!

 

Hi Guys,
New to the forum and coming from the Land Rover world. Picked up a 2019 4Runner TRD ORP, love the truck. I am unable to start a new thread but wanted to ask a question concerning the TRD PRO wheels and KO2 (stock size) that I had installed at 700 miles. Is the amount of weight installed excessive here? On the driver's front? Truck has a steering wobble at speed, I have read into the issue with the 4Runners. But this weight seems excessively high.

 

That seems like a lot. I'm not a pro, but I've heard that when there is a lot of weight on a wheel like that you can ask the tire guy to spin the tire on the wheel and rebalance. Worth a try?

 

It is way to much, and the way you describe it it is still out. I am guessing you have a bad tire, but it could also be the wheel. I would have them re-balance it, and if that does not help, replace please.

 

It was supposedly road forced on install. I took it back because of the steering wobble and supposedly rebalanced again.

Taking it to a 4x4 place up the road to have them take care of it. Dealer trying to tell me it’s the KO2s

 

That's kinda typical for KO2s in my experience they tend to not balance as well and take more weight than other ATs. If your tire shop has a road force balancer ask them to road force balance the tires. You may have one that has excessive runout and should be replaced and warrantied if you haven't driven much on them. Or then could just need matched to the wheels so they balance out better than they are currently.

 

After they spin the tire on the rim, make sure the lug nuts are torqued to 85 ft lbs.

 

The three others took minimal weight.

Dealer installed these and said they were road forced. Going to a shop that does a lot of Tacomas and 4Runners.

 

Just looking at the weight amount I knew they were KO2's without even reading the text. I had a Very good shop re-balance etc. to get the shakes out and they found that two of the 4 that are on ours are out of round. Very typical for KO2's. I am surprised that they stacked them but the amount of weight is unfortunately very common for that tire.

 

One of my KO2's also has a lot of weight, just not that much. They spun the tire and rebalanced. The vibes completely disappeared after making sure each tire had about 32 pounds of air and especially when the lugs were torqued to 85 ft lbs. The torquing of the lugs is often overlooked but it's very important with these type of wheels.

 

How many quarts of oil for 2014? Don’t see an oil change how-to on here.

 

Really? Come on...Do you have an owners manual?? 6.6 quarts with a filter change.

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