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

Long video and it's a 4th Gen. but man this guy gave that cop a run for his money!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7tgZy0qdDk

 

Looks great!!

 

We love it, looks great!

 

Thank you for choosing us! We would love to see a picture of your catalytic shields installed

 

Got a new windshield installed. Mine had a million little chips that would sparkle in direct sunlight.
Went with after market, installer used a brand called Vitro. Visibility is like OEM, no wavy patters etc. All it has to do now is keep the wind and water out. Time will tell.

 

Havent done too much yet.

Added icon coilovers to level the freight, didnt want to use the pucks

window tint

Side steps (hate the gap, so I have sliders on the way)

Got new Shoes and swapped out the red center caps for the bronze ones

 

& bugs too!

 

The Brite Box ,Raptor harness in eng. comp. (Need to tidy the harnesses up was getting late in the day Sat.) Brite Box Pwr fuse, Raptor (red pwr) Brite Box harness thru fire wall boot. Happy W/installation. After seeing today using other OEM switches maybe I should've gone W/Amber vs Blue, BUT it is on the L/H side so not as contrasting.

Ran it through soft touch car wash, it was filthy & too cold to do it my self. Used there free vacuum for crap that fell out of shop vac. I gave to step son couple of weeks ago when it tipped over. Man that Vac & car wash sucks some ! I was gonna do it at home tomorrow but figured what the hey, I'm here, only 1 other person so I backed up used micro towel to wipe off rear window,(Used my glass cleaner when I got home always some drips after car wash) opened lift gate & viola clean up real nice for Xmas present transportation Mon. Not supposed to rain till next Wed & other then going out for our 25th anniversary I have No plans to drive anywhere.

P.S. Notice the "Blue/Yellow Paint marks" some one claimed on another thread were "TQ Stripes on Batt- terminal" that are not TQ stripes As I pointed out IF they were true TQ Stripes the Blue marking would've failed. It does NOT line Up W/Nut vs Stud. That's how true TQ stripes are intended to work. Like the ones on my wheels., they're ONLY on the nuts, NO relation to studs IF they loosened or not, Hence the whole purpose of TQ stripes. Maybe an internal Toyota marking for "checking TQ" ?? I believe that could be the explanation. Co.'s have their own QA/QC Policies vs Industries too. But not a true TQ stripe marking. FYI.

 

State of Oregon, wink wink

 

Great stuff! New center caps look better, much agreed. Enjoy the ORP, we love ours!

 

wildpeaks all the way

 

Went with Nitto Terra Grapplers since I spend most time on road and they have supposedly amazing wear

 

Sooo jealous....no snow here yet

 

I think that's what I will be getting after my next paycheck

 

I’m still going back and forth between wildpeak and toyo, although I’ve been leaning slightly towards wildpeak

I still have time to decide as I won’t change them until my stock nitto terra are done. I’ve only got 20k miles on them so probably 2 more years at least.
Also when I do change the tires, I’m still debating between keeping the stock size 265/70, going to 280/70, or 255/80

 

Too bad you are in AZ. Wish you were closer to Denver CO to sell my Wildpeaks P285/70R17SL on our city 4runner, the Limited. I'm pretty sure it has low miles, have to check with DT the mileage they were installed

So far I'm liking Toyo OC. BFG KO2 still my fav do it all tire and Duratrac my fav winter performer.

 

@kmeeg why are you selling them? You don’t like them?

 

I don't like to say I hate them. But if I get some decent money I want to sell them and buy something like Toyo OC.

Toyo OC, I like the onroad manners in dry and snow, but not good as Duratracs. Pretty good in gravel roads as well. What's unknown to me is rocky terrain. Haven't had a chance to test the Toyos yet.

If I put more trail time like I did with my TRD ORP I'm more likely to buy newer BFG KO3 because I had lot of faith on my previous KO2s.

A tire made in USA/ Canada/ Japan gives me a little comfort feeling than Chinese made.

Again, I don't hate Wildpeaks. They have decent grip even on gravel at higher speed.
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i’ve had them all my 4runners (2007, 2012 & 2022) and dont have 1 negative to say about them, other than the tire price going up over the past 3-5 years.

I cant wait until my wifes General Altimax tires wear out on her Mazda CX5 so I can slap some Falken Wildpeaks on it.

 

Finally got around to installing my Rival skids. Old skids were beat to hell. I almost don't want to bang these ones up they are so nice lol.

 

How’s the noise compared to stock?

 

If you do any type of rock crawling highly recommend the Cooper Rugged Treks. Very aggressive tread pattern, ride very smooth on the freeway and crazy grippy off road for something that isn't considered an MT.

 

I did an H9 bulbs conversion. Couple minutes with a Dremel and they went right in.

 

Cooper Discoverer on my last 4Runner, very happy W/Those. Good year has bought them out & I always liked Goodyear tires, can't say the same for Firestone.

 

I run the Firestone Destination LE3 . Fantastic wet performance and braking. Quite enough with good grip. I have had no issues with them. Second set, first was Destination LE2.

 

I've had both and am definitely a bigger fan of my current Toyo AT3's. It's not that the wildpeaks are bad, they're just unnecessarily heavier than all other AT tires. I've had the AT3 on my Tundra and now 4runner and love them.

 

Like I always say "It's your $ buy what you like!"
I just remember the 721, 500 & Wilderness recalls. I had the Wilderness that came on my 98 Explorer Sport. The issue was NOT the tires, but the people NOT using the recommended PSI per door placard. Regardless I got over 60k out of them & the $$$ from Firestone class action suit.
My buddies dad worked at the Firestone Plant here in Pottstown. He sworn by the Town & Country Snow tires too.

 

A buddy of mine had KO3's. He said they were great on the trail, but were really loud on the hi-way.

 

Not the greatest pic of my Caliraised cat protection. Finally added them.