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

Ha! I'm always out there looking for trails. One of these days hit me up and we can trail together. Its always good to go with a buddy in case anything happens.

 

Well thats good to hear. I assumed because you mentioned you said you did the 15k mile oil change. My friend works at the dealer and tells me the horror stories when people change oil at 10k miles.

 

I believe it! especially if you happened to get the wrong filter installed! Probably explains why my oil was so much darker after 5k than it was for the last oil change.

So I just got off the phone with the manager of the service department and he and his manager went down to look at their inventory. What they found was that they had over 15 filters that were mislabeled by toyota. They had YZZA5 on the box but the filters were clearly the A1's. They pulled all those filters out, sent them to the part department to get in touch with toyota about this and called some customers who may have gotten the wrong filter so they can fix that mistake and thanked me for bringing this to their attention as they wouldn't have known otherwise. Maybe he was blowing smoke up my backside but I hope he was being sincere as this is one of the best rated service departments in the area.

 

Weather was warm enough to paint and install my NFabs...

 

Ok, got me curious, what's with the trap door on the floor?

 

Dom dungeon which doubles as a Sarlac pit...

Tornado shelter.

 

Haha! Don't see many of those out here in California, but I sure could've used one for the ex. Hope you never have to use it, for tornadoes anyway

 

Installed the TRD front skid. The red letters didn't really work for me so I took care of that with a little rattle can

 

Very clean. I like that a lot.

 

Agree, very clean and looks great!
Did you pull off the TDR or tape around it. This is going to be my next "upgrade" and I was thinking of doing the same with the titanium silver to match my wheels.

 

Finally got around to installing the Halo 9 and removing the Kenwood.

Gonna see how this floating screen trend works out for me.

 

looks awesome! got a pic with the screen on?

 

Figured I’d get one last smoke in TN before making the last drive out to AZ

 

Coolest thing is the vehicle info screen

 

Purchased and Brought her home today.

 

Congratulations, nice looking color. What mod’s are first on the wish list?

 

Followed by

 

The letters are held on with some sort of adhesive so I taped around them. Titanium silver sounds great, hope to see some pics!

 

Not quite sure. I have to let my wallet get over the shock. Lol. This is the most expensive vehicle I have ever purchased. But I am thinking of putting the bronze 40th edition wheels on it first. Give it that Taco trail edition color combo.

 

After 5 years of owning the 4Runner the battery finally gave up the ghost. It was 7 degrees Friday morning and came out to a dead batter



Decided to go with a AGM because of the winch and the week long camping trips.



For some reason I could not keep the terminal clamps and the battery bracket from getting corrosion. I constantly cleaned them, used felt pads and battery terminal protector spray. Cleaned everything off and paint the bracket since it was down to bare metal


All put together

 

DieHard will fail you. Don't ask how I know. X2, Odysey or North Star are your best options for AGM

 

Too late for that. I guess we will see, it has a 3 years free replacement. If it fails it fails. There was literally nothing in stock for AGM in Colorado Springs and needed a battery. It is what it is at this point.

 

spray some Fluid Film on the battery posts and holdown and it won't corrode

 

That is good to know! I was trying all the common stuff and it kept happening. Getting annoyed over here lol.

 

Did you try peeing on it?

That seems to work for a lot of things.

 

Yeah, I'm not sitting in your 4Runner.

 

Put an Eibach lift on it and took it out in the desert to cycle the suspension. Extremely impressed with the lift and how planted the 4runner feels now. No more nose dive on braking and body roll is almost non existent yet the ride is not harsh at all. Now that the suspension has settled need to adjust the front height tonight before the alignment tomorrow morning.

 

Where do you find a Die Hard battery these days? Sears went out of business. Craftsman tools is at Lowes now. Who has DieHard?

 

Advance auto parts for the Die Hard batteries now

 

That was next on the list