Recent content by honda99ex

Always thankful for the knowledge on here. Was the obvious. Pads worn to metal hitting rotor. First set of pads lasted 60k, second set only 40k. Both OEM pads. maybe the rough rotor surface accelerated the wear? Or maybe wife just heavy on brakes...

I use the Torque app and one of those Bluetooth OBD2 adaptor / transmitters. I downloaded it onto an older phone I no longer use so it just sits in my towing bag of stuff. The internet always says prolonged tranny temps will kill trannies. In my experience as mentioned, when you pull with the...

I run this app that monitors the Tranny temp at converter and pan. I noticed that if you go slow like non highway speeds (air not running through radiator) or up steep hills it will hit my limit alerts which is 220F I think. Tow in S4 cause it locks the converter. I went up a stretch of I84 from...

Pads, not rotors changed out 30k ago at around 60k. OEM pads. Truck has 100k now. Didn't take the wheels off yet. I just walked around / crawled under. Nothing obvious to my untrained eye. No dummy lights on console. Just thought I'd ask on here in case anything notorious. Doesn't seem like...

Truck going to shop Wednesday but wondering if the forums can help out. Brakes abruptly make horrible crunching noise when coming to full stop only. That is, decelerating will be fairly normal, only the actual stop elicits a very jerky motion and loud sound as it there are pebbles between pad...

How do you go about deleting BlueTooth? Do you mean deleting the Registered Phone? For some reason, I thought you meant disabling the Bluetooth ability of the Head Unit. Thanks!

As long as I can remember the stock radio has intermittently reset itself / froze about once a month. The last 6 months or so, it has been doing it several times a week. Am I missing some fireware update or is there a fix? It either just totally resets itself (reboots) or becomes unresponsive to...

6 years and almost 100k in To this day it is super disconcerting when the shimmy and wobble presents itself, especially under braking. Maybe it's cause I carry a heavy load and trailer a bunch but makes me sick. I live in an urban area with crap roads and a lot of people so not a lot of room...

So I actually sent mine in for "repair" finally but they ended up just needing to replace the entire bottoms so it's like essentially buying new bottoms... I've noted / complained about durability before so it is what it is... I kind of think of it as leasing seat covers... It does get easier to...

Not sure this has been covered before but looking for insight before I jump into it. The black panel on the tailgate with the 4Runner emblem where the lock release button is has become loose such that every time I go to pull open the tailgate the panel will move several mm before the tailgate...

Just an universal kit. Yes some of it is desire. I guess I will wait until there is an alternate source material if that pans out... So basically the ideal engine for ethanol is one with a turbo, upgrade fuel system and a tune. Why would you not run ethanol in a flex vehicle? Did not...

Thanks for sharing. Honestly some of it is novelty. My other car is out of warranty so it's not like I want to blow it but if it did I wouldn't be heart broken. The engine has always sounded terrible but run fine. Every time I take it in they can't find anything wrong with it. It is naturally...

Yes we are the largest oil producing country but we (at current) use the most oil. China coming soon. We use more than we produce basically. A lot more. I am not interested in the fuel economy. I think that is a break even proposition - e85 cost less but also basically an equivalent amount less...

I know that's thrown around a lot but is that really true? Or how do you mean? On the front end, Most people use the food vs fuel debate but ethanol depending on how and what it's made of is 'better' for the planet. On the back end, it definitely burns cleaner. The other moral part is oil...

This might be sacrilegious but has anyone ever put one of the e85 conversion kits on a 5th gen? Or a 4.0L? Change2e85 or similar... I read a 12 page post on the FJ forum where they teased that they were going to be the guinea pig but doesn't look like they followed through... I would be doing...