Recent content by JoeyV

Usually, when buying parts like that, it includes just the bare part. No paint, no hardware, no grommets, no wiring, no accessories (lights). You need to swap everything over yourself.

March 2026 - Drawer System The end of 2025 was hectic with a move for the business, so I didn't get a chance to address anything on the truck, but it did give me some time to think about the platform we were using to sleep. Last year was always a bit of a hassle and a mess to load and store...

The front passenger door had some rust that was starting to form, so I removed it to address it before PPFing it. Once the PPF was done, I sanded and painted the over fenders with bed liner for a durable textured finish and reassembled the whole thing. We also changed the tail lights and added...

Once the facelift fitment was confirmed, we PPF'd the rest of the vehicle and mounted a temp rear bumper while the oem repair dried.

We started by disassembling the front end and swapping out the base/SR5 hood with the scooped TRD hood and the DynoDamascus-Black PPF. Then we moved on to PPFing the fenders. Once that was done, we installed all the facelift brackets and components and test fitted the headlights and bumper for...

Thanks for the info. Very appreciated. From what I've been reading and discussing with a Toyota tech friend of mine, it's just not worth the retrofit and it'd be better to just run an aftermarket set-up. It would have been nice to have an oem looking set-up, but it's just not feasible. As for...

November 2025 - Facelift and PPF I spent about a year and a half watching videos, looking up part numbers and collecting all the parts required for a facelift. Once I managed to snag the most elusive part - the crash beam/rebar - we put it in the schedule and got started. Being the owner of...

October 2025 - Like any good car enthusiast, I spent many a nights scouring through marketplace and kijiji (Canada's version of craigslist) for any deals. At the tail end of the 2025 camping season, I found someone pretty local who was getting rid of a Prinsu roof rack for $600 (they sell for...

We in fact do not have a lift yet. Only leveling kit on the front. (we're doing our lift this year) We did have some mild rubbing on the passenger side due to the factory SR5/OffRoad skid plate which we trimmed back. There was also some rubbing on the front fender liner which we trimmed back...

We have a 2012 SR5, so our port in the cargo area is limited to a 12V lighter plug. Has anyone managed to retrofit the newer/higher trim 400W/120V port? I've searched and haven't found a thread explicitly discussing/explaining if it can/has been done. (if there is such a thread, please point me...

Summer/Fall 2025 Working on the vehicle is fun, but we took most of the summer to enjoy the outdoors whenever we could. Next post will be a "what did we do to it" update, but for now, some pics of some camping and trails.

August 2025 - After going on a few camping trips, the horn stopped working and a few lights came on in the dash. Thanks to this forum, I narrowed the problem to a bad clockspring. I picked up a new one and got swapped out. Problem solved. Given that the truck was now at 125k miles, I did a bit...

Does anyone know who the owner/admin of the forum is and how to contact them (outside of forum DMs)? Might be the only way to get this fixed.

Late in 2024, once work slowed a little at our shop, my wife wanted to go try camping. I was busy over the weekend and couldn't go, but I made time to build her a platform so she could drop in a memory foam mattress. This is the sleeping set-up w would end up using all throughout the 2025 season...

The first thing we did was to get new wheels and tires. We looked at the popular names in the wheel market and the model my wife settled on was the Fuel Shock in Anthracite/Grey. 17x9 ET1. We were also looking at tires and while we considered the popular options many people put on (Wildpeaks...