Hi Everyone,

My name is Angelo and I have a 2012 T4R Trail Edition with KDSS. I wanted to share a little bit of my background with cars before I purchased the 4runner.

I previously owned a 2004 nissan 350z which was my pride and joy. I was very deep into the whole car show car meet thing when I was younger. My favorite movie growing up was The Fast and The Furious. I remember telling myself that I would drive a super low car once I learned how to drive. That movie inspired me to fix up cars and I made sure I kept to my word.

I did a million things to my 350z and changed almost every exterior part to the car. I went from driving literally mm off the floor to eventually bagging it. Here is a pic of it for reference.



Eventually the car was so low I could hardly drive it anywhere. This problem brought me to my first truck. I bought a manual 93 4runner 4x4 with 113k on the odo for 1900 dollars. I had my ups and downs with it due to being an old car but I loved it. I had the famous head gasket blow up on me, so that had to be replaced, but besides that the truck was bullet proof. I decided to throw some 32in falkens and some pro comp alloys. Here is another pic for a reference.



Here is were I came to the wrong conclusion of my truck buying experience. After owning the 2nd gen runner for about a year, I decided I needed a more reliable car (aka a newer car), because I would be commuting to much farther places due to a new job. I decided to sell it and purchased a 2006 NISSAN Xterra SE 4x4. This truck was nothing but headaches. Long story short, the motor spun a rod on my second day of owning it and 9 months later the truck almost killed me and my buddies due to the passenger side wheel bearing and hub assembly falling apart on the way home from pismo beach. I had some 285's, a 2in spacer lift and level 8 rims on it, but I never did anything crazy with it. Here is a pic of the truck.



The week after that happened I decided to drop it all. I put my 350z and xterra both forsale and sold them within a month. On November 6 2016, I purchased my best vehicle to date. The 4runner lol



2012 4runner trail Mod list:

Engine:
-Optima Red Top Battery
-ARB Dual Air Compressor
-4x4 Labs Compressor Mount

Differentials:
Nitro 4.88 Gears

Wheels and Tires:
-(5) 315-70-17 Nitto Ridge Grapplers
-(4) Yokohama Advan RGD2's
-(1) StealthCustomSeries Ray 10's
-(4) Synergy Wheel Spacers (1.5in)
-(12) ARP extended racing studs for front hubs

Suspension:
-2.5 icon coilovers with reservoirs and 650lbs springs (non cdc and extended travel)
-2.0 icon rear shocks with reservoirs (non cdc)
-Icon uniball upper control arms
-ome 898 heavy duty rear springs

Interior:
-LEDS by VLEDS for dome, map, trunk, and door lights
-Pioneer double din head unit

Exterior:
-budbuilt hidden winch plate
-Warn Zeon10 winch
-factor55 prolink and 1.5 hawse fairlead
-rugged ridge 19,200lbs synthetic rope
-rigid industries grille
-gobi ladder
-ARB rear diff breather
-ARB Safari Snorkel
-70 series land cruiser emblem
-Rig'd swing out tire carrier

Lighting:
-5k 35watt ddm hids
-VLEDS LED bulbs for license plate, and reverse lights
-rago fabrication ditch light brackets
-rigid industries D-SS Pro LED Pods (floods)
-rigid industries sr series 10inch led bar (spot/flood) in amber
-rigid industries sr series 20inch led bar (spot/flood)
-baja designs squadron sport fog lights

Roof:
-bajarack, flat utility
-ARB 2000 awning
-quickfist clamps and shovel
-hi-lift jack and mounts
-4 gallon rotopax fuel container
-Tepui Kukenam 3

Armor:
-Rocky Road Outfitters, rock sliders
-RCI oil pan skid (steel)
-RCI transmission skid (steel)
-RCI transfer case skid (steel)
-Total Chaos Spindle Gussets
-Total Chaos Cam Tabs

Miscellaneous / Recovery:
-Warn 18,000lbs snatch block
-ARB 30,000lbs recovery tree strap
-ARB 18,000lbs recovery tow strap
-ARB tire deflator
-(1) warn 18,000lbs D-RING
-(2) warn 6000lbs D-RINGS
-tool kit, knives, scissors


Communication:
-midland cb radio
-3ft. firestick antenna
-Firestick COAX cable
-Baofang HAM hand held radio
-(2) Motorola Walkie Talkies

Future:
-Total Chaos (kdss lower control arms)


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