Recent content by Guile5

Recently acquired a 2015 with a level of road salt rust. 2 Qs. 1, how serious is this level? 2, should I spend time wire wheeling or blasting this off and painting, coating, etc?

That answers the Q then. Thanks.

Ha, good one. Thanks for sacrificing a window. Test would be to sit inside the vehicle with fob, reach out window to pad lock it, then try to start. Or fob inside, pad lock, reach through open window to try to start.

The fam had an offroad mishap in a '15 Limited. Nosed into a ditch slowly and pushed the lower front in enough to cause tire rub on the driver side (only) at full right turn lock. I am out of town on biz for a few weeks and can't do measurements for more detail. But to get the ball rolling on...

Fob invalidation absent a correctly entered code would indeed solve the security issue. Smash and go would be thwarted. Can anyone with a pad installed test this out?

Is this a Toyota thing? I've never had a factory sunroof leak or motor fail in 30 years and maybe 12 cars of driving. Some owned for many years, and a few that were 15+ years old. This is my first Toyota, though.

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That's towing mpg. Are you getting that number from the computer or from a fill up and calculating?

Too bad it doesn't have the full time AWD t-case. The one reason I decided to go Limited.

This is the Limiteds without 3rd row set. This was compiled from nationwide data, both dealer and private party, from about July through Sept, 2020. I screened for only decent ones, no salvage, no accident history, no obvious problems. Some are CPO. These are asking prices and do not take into...

What I do is create a spreadsheet of vehicles and plot miles vs price for a given age and trim. It takes time to build a large enough data set to have a reliable curve. But after a few months, I had several hundred in mine. Such a curve gives you the depreciation slope, but also where one...

ARBs are an expensive option and rare. Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk

White Lightning chain lube might be interesting to use. It's a wax based lube that flakes off to shed dirt. Regular oil based lube is still going to cling dirt to some degree. The negative is, it needs much more frequent lubing.

H9 bulbs into the fogs and low beams, HIRs into the high beams, and disabled the DRLs.