Recent content by Seamonkey

It had just over 170k miles on it. I bought it with 100k, and I don't think the previous owner took great care of it. It ran great, but had a couple other issues in addition to the transmission. I went to a dealership on New Years Eve and ended up getting a great deal on a 2020 TRD, and I...

I love the Salsa Red and the look of the Trail Editions with the black fender flares. Mine needs a new transmission and I've been looking around, thinking of trading it in, but I like how mine looks so much better than the newer ones! (photo is not showing, for some reason. :( )

One of the first things I wanted to do to my 2011 TE when I bought it in February was to replace the older non-JBL system with something newer. I dearly wished I could have kept those giant volume and tuning knobs, but they had to go in order to get CarPlay. After a lot of research, I went...

Currently about half way through a 6 week road trip from Texas to Montana, then down through Wyoming, Kansas and Missouri. Today I drove from St Louis to Cincinnati, where I'll visit some friends, then tomorrow to WV, where I'll see my parents, then down to NC for a week of work, then back to...

I'm resurrecting an old, but still very useful thread (since it still refers to the 5th gen). My antenna base on the 2011 4R I just bought is mangled (antenna broken off, then a poor attempt at drilling it out), so i have the parts to replace it. One thing I'm curious about in this thread...