Recent content by MidnightOffRoad

The rear is impossible without removing. The front can be done, but you end up with cuts and scrapes on your arms trying to fish your arm/paw to finagle the clips off. Reinstalling the clips is much easier.

I sold them for $400 local (FB marketplace). At that price, they went quick. I paid $640 for the new TRD wheels (not knockoffs) so between the cost of the wheels and resale and a mount/balance, it cost me about $350 to swap out. Powdercoaters wanted anywhere from $125 to $150 per wheel, and...

As someone who's driven on both (I swapped by OffRoad wheels for TRD which I'm currently on). 1) Weight savings at the wheel isn't trivial. It has a number of positive effects and only a couple negatives Firstly, a vehicle with just a few lbs heaver on each wheel can be robbed as much as 5%...

Maybe I just got unlucky, but my set of 265 KO2s are impossible to balance. Balanced 2 times and still doesn't ride right. Road noise is slightly more (but not unbearable) compared to the stock Dueler's. I will say the vehicle road incredibly smooth when I had the Dueler's on. On my next...

Sigh, always someone wanting to argue. The amount of braking force capable in a modern disc brake system is DIRECTLY proportional to A) the number of pistons (i.e. how much clamping force given typical hydraulic system pressures and limitations) and B) the size of the rotor. A 5500 lb vehicle...

Guys, it doesn't (or shouldn't) matter that you're at altitude because your mass air sensor is going to inform the engine of how much air (and oxygen) is going by through the intake. That's the purpose of the MAS, to tell the engine how much air is being sucked in and be able to accurately...

Lots of mistruths, misunderstandings and bad recommendations in this thread. Can you run 85 Octane? Sure. Is it smart? MAYBE. Octane rating is a numerical indicator of a fuel's propensity for predetonation and "knock." It is NOT, I repeat it is NOT an indication of the fuel's chemical...

Way less than that. A friend of mine once lost his keys in the ocean (literally) and he had to call a locksmith. As we talked with the locksmith he says "let me check and make sure I don't already have a key that will work." I said, what are the chances of that? He says most manufacturers...

I was shopping a TRD Pro and actually went in to put a down payment/secure on one that was arriving later in the week. Before I could leave, I had purchased a 2018 ORP and the dealer added the front "heritage" or TRD Pro grille and the predator steps and out the door I was at just under $39k...

1) If you're within $1500 and you haven't added a bunch of options to the ORP, then either you're getting screwed on the ORP price or you're getting a crazy good TRDPro price. Dealers can and usually do offer deeper discounts on the ORP and tend to keep the prices higher on the Pro, simply...

Surprised no one mentioned an "oilboy" or top side approach. A lot of vehicles are going to plastic plugs. With a metal plug, it's still beneficial to climb under the vehicle from time to time and check for metal at the threads of the plug. But using an oil boy is SOOOO much easier than a...

I drove an 07' SR5 for 10 years. I shopped REALLY REALLY hard for a Raptor. Decided I didn't want to pay $50k for a barely used Gen1 and refuse to buy one of the new ones. Explored holding out for the Ranger Raptor, but didn't want to wait 2 more years for them to come out and dealer markups...

GT350, terrible offroad

Does anyone know if there's any aftermarket or non OEM struts available. They're not tuned very well from Toyota and one of my few complaints about the 4R is that you practically have to do a pullup to get the rear gate to close. It's fine when you have nothing in your hands, but trying to...

It's not just dealerships that don't know. I had about a 15 minute debate with the manager of Tire Kingdom who insisted that my TRD wheels needed conical seat lugs and I assured him that I did every bit of research I could and they take the mag style lugs.