Congrats, That is a very nice purchase!

Very nice! Now get some real tires and some rock sliders!

It should have come with the manual.

Does it have timing belt or chain?
Does transmission need servicing?

That is a sweet truck

Hey! You are on IH8MUD as well. I recognized the name and recall pictures of your trailer behind the CX-9. I have an M101 build going over there under the same SN.

Very sweet 4runner. The silver trail is the best looking 5th gen out, imo. Interior pics as well? Congrats on the purchase!

That's a great looking 4runner! What are your impressions so far?

Yea man....another one of my hang outs! Love that trailer and T4R of yours!!

Thanks for the support guys...man I love this truck!

First impressions are extremely favorable. Only thing that really burned my a$$ was a lack of mats, and no locking gas cap.....I mean c'mon Toyota...you're kidding!

Ride is solid and it has all the creature comforts. Controls are well thought out, and all guages are visible. No major upgrades planned until I get some minor trail time in. Pull out slide is awesome..used it like 3 times already

First mods will be:

Remote start

Tint front windows to match rears

Make a set of LED back up lights with remote switch

Better interior/ rear cargo area LED lighting

Add second battery under hood, requires some minor relocation

LED turn signal mod (amber) on the mirrors

It's my daily driver so there's no plan wheel/suspension changes on the horizon till it's paid off. Don't want to kill the mileage......yet

Congrats. I must say, the members pics has the 5th growing on me. Thank you.

Don't forget...get better tires at least!!

Congrats - great looking truck - silver is the color for me !!! After seeing this, I am really tempted !!!

Agree with you re the "no locking gas cap". I live and regularly park in the metro area. Anyone knows whether there are aftermarket locking gas caps that will fit easily ?

No worries, all models have an anti-siphon system in the neck of fuel receptacle.

That's good to hear - at least one of my concerns has gone away.

I think I would still sleep better if I can get an aftermarket locking cap to prevent vandals from say putting sugar/sand down my tank !

I must sound a bit paranoid - but some of us do have to park in pretty rough neighbourhood... LOL ...

Not at all...I still can't believe there's not an inside latch

I got contacted by Toyota for feed back on the TE today..told them I need just a bit more time, they most interested in what I thought was missing or wrong and didn't really ask what I liked....lol

I know my Mazda CX9 was a 08-1/2 although there's no official Mazda version out there.


I tried putting it in 4L and tearin' up the yard being she went to work...

Titanpat57, if i may be so bold, please do us all a proper and mention that the Trail Edition should have the Torsen center diff (just like the '09 Trail Edition—and all trim levels of the 4th Gen!) and that for a $40k+ loaded Trail, they should include the heated leather seats.

it'd be great to nudge Toyota about an available 4.6L V8, too…*