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

Rock sliders and all but the engine skid plate showed up, which is scheduled to be here tomorrow. Figured I'd wait to install the skids until I had them all and install the sliders today.

Opened the rock sliders and the bolts and washers are not there. Guess those will go on another day.

 

I do not like sunroofs. More crap to fail and less steel between me and the outside world.

Maybe pre-plandemic, there would be a way to order a variation...

 

I know this much: next vehicle I get (regardless of make/model) I'm not getting a sun/moonroof. I enjoy having them. But freaking God they are a PITA if you have to repair them (i.e. have glass replaced like I did). They are nice on spring or fall days (not too cold/holt). But I'm def getting mine retinted along rest of windows prob next year after tax season (hello taxes, good bye taxes).

 

All good points.
And a plandemic, it was

 

You should be good - works for 2014-2018

Our products are compatible with Compatible with Toyota 2014-2018 4Runner 2015-2018 Avalon 2015-2018 Avalon Hybrid 2014-2017 Camry 2014-2017 Camry Hybrid 2014-2018 RAV4 2014-2018 Sequoia 2015-2017 Sienna 2014-2018 Tacoma.

 

There may be a slight tint to them I went 20% but the heat and sun that comes through it is too much for me plus I did for safety if it breaks it does rain glass down on me.....

 

Update. When I tried to pretension the winch rope the rope slipped right out of the anchor lug. While trying to figure out how to reattach the rope I went through the car wash and the
Control box started making noise without me even touching the controller so disconnected it from the battery. After procrastinating and running out of ideas for the rope I finally called Ironman and they sent another one with a better anchor point. After reconnecting to power I went to spool up the new rope the winch wouldn't work. No clicking, no noises. Nada. I've had this installed for several months, never been able to use it and now I have to remove the entire bumper to work on the winch. This was my first experience with a winch and probably my last. Thus far it's been a giant waste of time and money.

Almost every aspect of this build has been trying my patience.

 

Off to a park next to the river, find a picnic table for my early birthday BBQ. Plus my mom made me carrot cake

 

The red rings finally came in and they put them on Friday. They’re interchangeable with the black rings that were on there. (I didn’t bother washing the truck since it may rain this week again.)

 

They’re no bueno in the snow. I went one winter with them before going to defenders. If I could do it all over again, I’d make the change right away and get more money for the stockers.

 

That looks pretty sweet.

 

Apparently my impatience level needs to be recalibrated to a more reasonable setting. Didn't feel like waiting for RCI to send the bolt package so I went out to Home Depot and picked up the necessary hardware to install the sliders. I'll still need the bolts for the step plates but I can wait for those.

 

Thanks!

 

Looks good man! Never have to worry about em falling out anymore. Install looks clean!

 

I could see the old stock ones being bad for snow, but not these....

 

Installed a B&M 70268 SuperCooler auxiliary transmission cooler to keep the trans temperature in check when towing our travel trailer. Brought the temps down about 30 degrees. Hottest it got was about 198 on the pan sensor with ambient air temp being around 102.

 

Parked it and took a couple pictures

 

What are those?

 

https://realtruck.com/p/n-fab-nerf-step-rs/v/toyota/4runner/2021/

 

Worked on my storage solutions some more. Should get the remaining storage cases tomorrow. Then finish storing my retrieval, tools, inflator, etc. in them and mount (i.e. LOCK) them to my basket! Got weatherproof name tags yesterday and wrote them up! It's the small stuff that count!

 

Swapped out the silver rear valance. Not too difficult. Glad I had this nice rug to crawl around on while doing it. I will say I was a little hesitant, but after watching a few vids it wasn't that difficult.

 

Got Nav/GPS update. Install was easy & it's from 5-22 so I got 5 newer yrs from original that came W/vehicle.
Been thinking I may trade my 2018 TRD OR for a 2024 to avoid the 2025 new 4Runner in it's 1st run. Plus I like the V6. Dealership where I bought mine has a 2023 white TRD Pro $57k W/couple dealer add-ons . The TRD OR Premium is $54k. They both have "Moon roof's " that won't be stopping me from buying one of the 2 next spring possibly.

 

@LCJ77 Was that navigation chip the Amazon one for under $20?

 

Amazon but $26.00
Navigation GPS SD Card - Latest US & Canada Maps Micro SD Card for Upgrading Your Car GPS Navigation System - 86271-0E075 Car Accessories Compatible with Toyota 4Runner RAV4 Tundra

 

What does this do? For people who have never heard of this

 

Just gives more current nav. data. My 2018 came with card from 5-2017, this one is from 5-22.

 

As long as it doesn't wipe the address book and recent trips, I may just break down and get it.

 

Oooooohhhhhhhh that makes a ton of sense thank you

 

You can see what your sim card's date in from Map Info.

 

You're an mvp thank you