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Two dumb quirks I ran into, posting here just in case at all helpful. 1.) The Rave camera mount looks like it was printed incorrectly. I managed to install mine upside down because I looked at it and though "clearly this is keyed to only go one way". Turns out the "correct" way is to put it...

I've found a "workaround" for this of sorts. It doesn't actually make the messages go away, but they will stop animating: Turn your parking sensors off. Then just deal with the single message. This sucks and it's still a terrible design, but at least you won't feel like you're driving Qantas...

Toyota does insane stuff with parts pricing. I don't understand it. The 14" screen part is over $14,400 MSRP. The 8" is $6,600. A TRD Offroad with the 14" display and sway-bar-disconnect starts at $46,085 sticker. More than half of that price ($24,424.76) is for the sway bar disconnect and...

Capstone wheels? Looks like they have a 60mm offset. I think the OEM Sport wheels are 55mm offset (just like the offroad). So they will be 5mm more tucked in than the Sport wheels. Looks like they're 8" just like the offroad wheels. I would imagine they clear given that people have no...

Would not try to fit anything bigger than a sock on 35x12.5 unless you can clear 37x13.5. There's no more space available.

$844.90?!?!??!!? Well now I've changed my opinion completely. My non-hybrid offroad did not come with this spectacularly valued piece of plastic. I feel completely ripped off. Why did I buy this stupid model, the only model other than the "halo" trucks where they screw you out of $844.90 in...

BTW non-hybrids are getting 265/65-R18 (with premium package). Hybrids are getting 265/70-R18 (standard). Weird.

The Toyota Tacoma is fundamentally designed for offroad capability at great expense to general safety, stability, handling, and fuel economy. I'll never understand the point of buying one and then having a piece of plastic on the front that negates all offroad capability for a possible trivial...

I'm running somewhat of a similar setup but with a slightly smaller tire and have not experienced this even doing higher speed offroad stuff (e.g. dirt roads similar to what you'd see on Saddleback at 30-40mph). My truck is a TRD Offroad with the OEM lift (i.e has TH ride height and control...

The Toyota OEM AT3W/A tire should be illegal to sell. It has 9/32 of tread depth. A/T tires typically have at least 15/32. Think mine are 16.5/32. I'm not a crazy environmentalist (as evidenced by my Taco on 34s) but I'm genuinely frustrated by stuff like this. Let's fill the landfills...

I tested with a couple of Android Auto phones and they pretty rough when the GPS was off (Had DCM fuse pulled). The Pixel 8 Pro's GPS did better than the Pixel 7's. Android Auto definitely is reading a GPS signal from the head unit. I'm not an expert on Android Auto development but have been...

I would recommend not pulling the GPS antenna wire. I think it's the center one. GPS does not transmit. It will theoretically prevent the vehicle from storing location data locally, but I don't think it's doing much/any of that. The head unit furnishes the GPS data to Android Auto and...

The AI-generated pic drives me crazy. That thing is 15% Nissan Frontier if you look at it closely! :D Walkaround vid on 4Runner here of real thing:

Your Bronze Oxide TRD Pro looks great!

Would love to have one of these if they actually worked, even over the OEM 14". Would be nice to run maps natively without CarPlay. That said, can these even get to the OEM settings menu? Not that there's a ton of critical settings in there, and maybe a decent scantool can still customize...