Recent content by shane43

My wife used dental floss too. It worked great. Although she started to get tired at the end and heard that a hair dyer would make it easier...so she tried that, and ended up peeling the clearcoat off from too much heat. Take your time, if you do use a hair dyer be very careful!

Just wanted to give everyone an update - We completed our 8 hr drive with the 4000 lb load and it worked just great. Here's what we ended up doing, and our results: 1) Installed an aftermarket hitch receiver. We got a Curt from etrailer for $140. It was a bit hard to install until we realized...

UPDATE: I ended up emailing toyota directly about everything and got the following response: ------- Thank you for contacting Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. We appreciate the time you have taken to email us. We apologize that you have received different information from our dealerships...

Wow I can't tell you how much more help you guys are than the dealership. In addition to the dealer mentioned before about the $2k hack job, I got in touch with 2 other dealers. One said that there is a tranny cooler required and that toyota will not install one for me because it's too much of a...

We just bought a used 06 4runner (V6) for the purpose of towing our 3000 lb. boat (about 4k including trailer). It does not have the tow package option. I need to know we need to do so that it can tow up to 5000 lbs like the other 4runners that came with a tow package. I tried calling 2 toyota...