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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...

MT tires definitely tear up mileage. But I'd also look at the tire size difference. Look up the actual outside diameter of the stock tires vs the MTs, then multiply your mileage by that ratio. The MT tires are likely closer to true size, where the SR5 "31s" are probably more like 30.5.

I don't have mine yet but it's going to be almost exactly this (see pic at bottom). I found these pics on autotrader, hilariously exactly identical to what I have on order, same truck configuration, color, lift, wheels, wheel finish, and tires. Wheels are Method 703 35mm offset, Tires are...

I went with this solution (bought it, even though truck is still on the way): https://www.autoharnesshouse.com/store/AHH-DCM77 This supposedly works and no power goes to the DCM at that point, so the cellular modem is genuinely dead. EDIT: This does not seem to work properly. May try it...

I'd be surprised if you noticed it much on a hybrid. The hybrid has larger 18" wheels and the same outside diameter (~33") stock tires. KO2 C-loads are lighter than your SL Wildpeaks. And of course the hybrid has ridiculous low-end torque. When I stick 285/75R17s on my inbound '25 6MT...