Recent content by 04Limited

Got my check today!!!! WOOHOO!!!! After an initial rejection letter that I sorted out with my local Toyota dealer that I purchased my dash from, I finally got my check!!! It's real folks! Still can't believe it..... as soon as it clears, I'm buying new leather seats from leatherseats.com...

yes, will take pix of leather seat project and post somewhere. will give you a shoutout in the post so you can find it. that's probably in the next 1-2 months. I need to post my timing belt and XREAS shock replacement pix somewhere also. Both very straightforward jobs.

Go to pages 10 and 11 of this thread - you can see how I did it. Tell them to look in their factory service manual and their time estimator - it's all in there. I can see it in the same books I purchased. That is a beast of a job but it's just a bunch of easy steps. Even the airbag parts are...

momo - you are a champion. thank you. if you are ever in north carolina, give me a shout. i'll buy you a beer or 10.

cracked dash spo0587, HUGE thanks for your post with a mention of me. i just called that 800-331-4331 number. They took my name, found me in their database, confirmed my vehicle is included in the campaign and said i'm GETTING PAID BACK!!!!! Big thanks to all of you for fighting the good...

it works! Love this forum.... Last Saturday I sent my wife to local oil change shop to have annual inspection done on my 04 4Runner. She returned with VSC TRAC and VSC OFF warning lights. After some deep breaths and calming myself down, I tried to let common sense take over. Surely this was...

yeah, that one didn't go over too well with the wife. i just sort of had to have it once i saw it. it's awesome.

yeah, i'm kind of neurotic about it.... it's a man cave. lit up like a photo studio! i get a tan while working on cars.

haha - you don't want me, you want e10pvmt - he can do it in an hour!!

here are the rest. pic #2 is half-way point - my favorite. looks so scary and yet isn't. good luck folks.

Full pix below - round 1. You also need a Torx 30 bit to get the airbag out/in (and this needs to be re-torqued). Forgot about that yesterday. Folks, seriously, this may look heinous but you must believe me when I say that ANYONE can do this job. If you can swallow the 900 bucks, have some...

if you could see the plastic "cradle" the passenger airbag sits in behind the dash pad, you'd likely agree with me when i say that the airbag would laugh at whatever material he added to the surface of his dash. it would blow right through unless it was made of kevlar - just my opinion. the...

i stand in awe of your mechanic skills. 1 hr is no joke. that said, maybe i could do it if i tried the disassembly several more times. full post coming probably tonight. as a starter, pic of cluster area at start of job attached. can't see crack from this view.

cracked dash update.... So I finally tackled the dash project this past weekend. Full post coming with pictures. My local Toyota dealer basically said "good luck" on my dash. The service manager was rude enough to say "I used to work at a Chevy dealer for 10+ years and this wouldn't happen...

i always buy the factory service manual for every vehicle i own. Honda manuals are better than those from Toyota but the instructions are pretty clear for this one. I'm going to call and log a case tomorrow. Will see if they'll at least give me the part for cost if i'm going to burn a...