Recent content by binhsterbinh

I had a chance to drive 2014 Xterra 4WD Auto for a month while working in California - putting 3000 miles on it driving up and down a lot of highway hills on the 101. Compared to my 2000 SR5 V6 with Auto, the Xterra had a lot more pep with the factory 5-speed and gear ratio. The 4.0 motor makes...

Seats have been holding up just fine over 7 years and 40,000 miles. No rips or tears and the foam has been holding up. Some people complain that the seat bolsters are basically metal frames wrapped in vinyl and therefore don’t give when they’re hopping in and out. I’ve always made conscious...

So far very comfortable and supportive. Night and day compared to my '00 SR5 seats. I'm glad I got the lumbar added. Overrall very happy with my purchase.

Nothing yet. I have only taken it for one drive for 2-3 miles. The suspension mechanism inside doe seem to help over the rough pavement encountered. Speed bumps feel more cushioned too. The main reason for purchasing these seats is to save my back and bum during road trips or anything over 1...

binhsterbinh's build thread I've been on this forum for 3-4 years now and am just now getting around to creating a thread for my '00 SR5 V6 4x4. I've learned a wealth of information on this forum, so thank you and props to all of you there that have posted on this forum. First up will be the...

Installed Mastercraft Baja RS seats with lumbar and heat add over the weekend. Took longer than I thought. I purchased Corbeau brackets made for 96-02 4Runner to simplify install. Ended up grinding off the Corbeau fixed seatbelt mounts and bolting directly to a nut pre welded into the beefy...

I can start with a parts list: Sharp PQ12RF21 Qty 1 LEDs - I used 22 total of the HPWT--DH00-F4000 LED HPWT-DH00-F4000 HPWT-DH00 Bright Red/Orange SuperFlux LUMILEDS Qty of 25 | eBay Pcb board 12pcs KIT Prototyping PCB Printed Circuit Board Prototype Breadboard Stripboard | eBay Resistors-...

The red lens ones with the 4 large LEDs is the closest I've seen to OEM short of making your own. I soldered my own earlier this year. Definitely a learning experience and took me a couple of afternoons. I would say it is medium difficulty. There were some guides I found from google that help...

Which master cylinder bleed procedure did you use? You mentioned that you were going to try the FSM one mounted on the car. Did you have to make sure the master cylinder rail was level? I'd have to jack the rear end high in the sky before my master cylinder rail is level since it sits so raked...

Powder coated Split 5's with 265/70/17 General Altimax Artics

I'm running the 4Runner spec Bilstein HD yellow shocks in the rear with my 890's. I believe the shocks were slightly longer than my stock Tokicos (about 1/2"). I don't do any major offroading or drooping so have never had issues over extending. Some people complain that Bilstein HDs are too firm...

Are you looking to install these for foggy night driving or simply as an additional driving light? For not much more, you can do an HID projector retrofit like the Morimoto Mini D2S into the headlights and dwarf the output of those Hella projector foglights. I have a set of Blazer mini...

I vote for AWD over 5-Speed, but either will work great. AWD would be safer for inexperienced drivers like Gf's/Wives. If your gf/wife is driving it, just tell her simply to push the AWD button if there is ever question of roads being slick. Likewise, shifting into 4WD high would be a good idea...

PitbullRescuer- I'm sure you've seen this but here's a permalink to an old post of mine using TRD/890 setup. I have ridden in a rig with the 890/OME comfort shocks in the rear and it road quite a bit harsher than my 890/Bilstein HD rear setup. The 890/Bilstein HD setup does not feel stiff at...

Finally the successor to the AVH-P4300 finally has Bluetooth built in. Now I want one too but can't justify replacing my AVH-P3300BT for. :( It also looks like the Bluetooth now does audio streaming from your phone/devices as well. Sigh...