Secondly, some recent work that has been done to the ole girl.

I sadly had a bit of a fender bender a couple of weeks ago. I rear-ended a stock taco and the Addicted Offroad cross member did exactly what it was designed to which was save my frame, and arguably saved the Tacoma from a ton of damage.

First I'll start with dashcam footage of this lovely incident from the @_Ripcord who was behind me. Basically a bicyclist just rolled out in front of a bunch of cars doing 35-40 mph and this is what happens.



Then here's the damage.



Taco faired well. New Tail Gate skin and bobs your uncle.










So the only thing that really happened is the cross member bent in on impact and broke my grill because the winch literally touched it. So any movement just broke off the plastic.





Now to the fix. Round 1 while I waited on more parts.
So, first I cut out the Addicted Cross Member in the center just for ease. Mine was fully welded on so for now just the middle came out.



That gained me access to this bent AF skid mount. Made a new one, welded that in.









I then re-did all my nasty wiring and painted some things, installed some cleaner blinkers that actually work.