Yes, I got a new one with cree's.

Tinted the fogs with Lense Tint from Home Depot. 1 light coat.

Do you think it's any brighter? I know they're supposed to be more reliable but I'm just wondering if there's a noticeable difference in brightness.

I haven't driven with it at night, but on initial fire up, yes, it was noticably brighter with a more concentrated pattern (even though it's still a combo lense) so I'm assuming it will be brighter.

On other news, I went offroading today for my first time on more technical stuff. Truck handles great but I definitely need some skids now.

What a good looking 4th gen!

Any action shots?

Love this 4Runner, looks great man.
Can't wait to see what's next

This is probably my favorite 4Runner right now. I'd like to get mine looking like this pretty soon.

I went out for the first test of the new 30" and 40" led bars. I have to say, I think the old 30" version (non cree) light bar was brighter and had a better beam pattern. Either that, or I got shipped a spot pattern and not the combo pattern. The light isn't nearly as robust as the old combo lense I had prior to it being cracked/broke. It may have better distance but narrower pattern, so I'm assuming it's the spot version. For anyone looking to purchase one of these, I'd go with the combo version instead.

The 40" single row combo is sick. Lights up the road fantastic, good beam pattern, and with the fairing no light hits the hood.

I'll take some photos, but it's basically going to be a blur of light. These things are bright.

looks awesome man, how much tint did you put on your front windows. I really need to do that to make it match.

You're the second person, maybe third, to tell me that they thought the Epistar LEDs were brighter... You'd think the opposite, especially considering price.

Thanks for letting me know and quoting me so I'd see it!

You can tell if it's combo because the outer LED reflector bowls will look kinda like spiderwebs. The spot reflectors are smooth.

Truck looks great man! Good call on having Josh fab up the threaded inserts for the fairing. It had crossed my mind but I couldn't decide how I was going to mount it...kicking myself a bit now haha.

With the light bar up top, does the fairing still do a solid job of keeping the rack noise/vibrations down?

Looks great Justin!!

Good to see you're still repping WA down in CO

I think it's 25%

Yes. A fairing is a must, otherwise you get a humming sound. When attaching the fairing, it's also important to make sure there is little to no gap between the roof line and fairing, otherwise the plastic fairing vibrates. I took a rubber gardening tube, spliced it, then glued it on the fairing. This helped eliminate the vibrations and now all is good.

The lightbar on the rack is perfect btw. Lights up the road really well, not too bright were you get hazing on your windshield, just enough to illuminate in front of you.

Another alternative is the rubber car door edging you can pick up at a local autoparts store. It has an adhesive/double sided tape inside the channel to hold it in place.

Living in Colorado is awesome. Ventured down to Silverton this past weekend to check out Cinnamon Pass and Engineer Pass. Incredible drive and scenery, fun array of offroading. Engineer Pass was still snowed in up at 12,800 so we couldn't complete the entire Alpine Loop, so we back tracked down and then up Cinnamon Pass. Camped for the night only to wake up to fresh snowfall making the return trip back up west a little more hair raising. Ironically, a 3rd gen and 5th gen were the only trucks out on Sunday and we caravaned up together. One of the most memorable drives I've done to date.

Truck drove great and the new suspension did well.









Next up will be a desert run out in Dino NM and then a Ophir/Imogene/Engineer Run in June.