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

Got all my skid plates (back) on, replaced most of the hardware.

Look at those beautiful shiny carriage bolts.

 

Fellow engineer; I can attest.

 

I could have been an engineer but they found out that my parents were married.

 

SO you're one of those SOB's I've cussed at for yrs,eh?!?! I always said years ago an engineer came home early & caught his Mrs messing around W/a mechanic & from that day fwd they(engineers) got together & vowed to make equipment SO unfriendly to maintain that the Mech wouldn't have extra time for shenanigans

 

Tried to buy the exact same rig - year, miles, trim, options - but in Classic Silver w a 3rd row. Couldnt get closer than mine plus $4k.

 

Not exactly. You're peeved at the mechanical/design engineers. Guess what? So am I.

I'm in manufacturing engineering, so I get to complain about the same guys you complain about!


Example 1:
"It looked great on the CAD drawing guys, but how do you expect me and my crew to actually assemble/maintain it?"

Example 2:
"We can build anything once. But when it comes to you wanting 50 a day, that's a whole 'nother situation."

I'm on your side, dude.

 

They look great on your 4runner!

Sorry to hear about the delay, our Molle's are definitely one of our most popular items so we are working hard to keep up!

 

I of course was kidding. A/C F/W, RW & Eng. designers can be the worst!!!

 

Air conditioning, firmware, and, um, what?

 

Steering wheel cover. Decent quality, great feel and fit. For what I paid for it, if it lasts me a year or two, I ll be a happy camper.

 

Aircraft ,Fixed Wing, Rotor Wing, & Engines Turbines (not recip.'s for me )

 

Yes indeed, that's a Highlander reference. I don't own any swords, but I am a small-time blade collector.

 

Haha, cool! I don't own any swords either, but I've owned a few nice ones in the past:

 

No kidding! I worked RW in the Army for 16 years…lost lots of blood thanks to design engineers great ideas!

 

All civilian for me.I take by your screen name that was on Apache's? Thank you for your service!

 

Dang, those swords are beautiful - I would regret letting those go if they had been mine!

 

Thanks, and I did, believe me. Unfortunately, other things took financial priority.

 

With swords like that, solving financial issues should've been easy*

*I am not a financial(or legal) advisor.

 

I can attest. Read through the stuff there. Bought the Phillips H9's made in Germany and swapped out my stock H11's. It made a huge difference in my light output. Its ridiculous. I opted to go with the Phillips because in his testing they had the best light output, even over high performance H11's, and they were cheaper than some of those.

 

A small thing but the last tiny bit of chrome is gone from the interior. Vent control inserts. They are Midnight Blue but look black in the pictures. https://www.etsy.com/listing/1762877492/4runner-vent-tab-insert-accessories-for?ref=yr_purchases

 

It's so simple too. I love mine!

 

Meso Customs got back to me. Their button fix for the tundra and tacoma kinda works for a 2021 ORP. By unpinning and switching wires around the volume now works up and down as it should however the seek buttons are reversed. Right goes back and left goes to next track. Guna leave it like this for the time being and hopefully they get a 4runner solution. Last two pics are the plug to the steering wheel buttons.

Also installed a voltage booster from VoltageBoosterPro to charge the yellow top at the right voltage. The DC Power alternator was charging at 14.11. It is now at 14.61.

Using this one as it retains a fuse. I have this other one from HKB Electronics in Australia. Looks like a modified small fuse. It does not appear to retain the fuse so I'm just going to hang on to it in case I need it. You can see it in the third pic.

 

How is the quality on those? They look a bit rough in photos?

 

i hope antiseize was used during the install.

 

THERE CAN BE ONLY 1!!!

 

nah no antisieze. Nothing is stainless. Had not issues taking them off after 25k miles.

Ordered some stainless bolts for the ones I have not yet replaced - ordered antisieze to go with those. But even that I dont think you need unless you're using stainless nuts.

 

its not just stainless fastners that can get locked up. I always rhink worst case scenario, a little goes a long way in saving future headaches.

 

You're absolutely right. Especially with the amount of corrosion on these after 25k miles and I'm here in a part of California that doesn't get snow or much rain.

....I just had stainless on the brain.

 

All good!

 

Quality is fine. They are purposely textured. Fit is perfect and it even comes with a little tool to remove the stock chrome ones.