Recent content by SubSonic

Great mods, thanks for the photos. I myself am still in a T4R, but have been considering a GX for the wife's next ride. She likes the T4R a lot, and a friend of ours has a several year old GX (an '06 maybe?) which she likes too. Has anyone gotten or at least driven the new GX (with the 4.6L V8...

What are you talking about mounting to the steering wheel? I have the factory navigation/Bluetooth system and the only thing I have on my steering wheel is buttons. If it is the buttons you are talking about, good luck. I am a relatively tech savvy person and would not attempt to "mount"...

This is why you keep a sanitized throw-away revolver or knife around the house, so you can put it in the dead perp's hand before the cops get there. :) Technically though, you are allowed to defend you life and/or your property - they don't have to just threaten your life before you can respond...

Agreed. I've had mine in for little over a year now (front/rear/cargo) and of course the driver's seat has seen the most use...and mine has no signs of wear, period. This is a daily driver too - not a Sunday car. And talk about cost, I ordered all 3 (front/rear/cargo) floor liners and all 4...

I use Mobil 1 synthetic myself. Use it in all my engines (even my lawn mowers). Good stuff. My GM's have computers that will tell you when to change oil...and they all recommend 15k mile changes when using synthetic...I do it at 7500 miles on everything (between 6k-7.5k) and go ahead and rotate...

I'm too far South to comment on this latest, big snow storm, but we did get about 6" here near Raleigh NC the weekend before...took the 4Runner out several times, out in the thick of the storm and then again on Sunday after it was "over". 4Runner did great. Never really had to "put it in 4WD"...

lol Nope, never seen a 4Runner-exclusive wave...I do have the 'low' wave when I meet a fellow motorcyclist and the basic wave passed between boaters (when in their boats and on the water) in my arsenal tho. Personally, I don't think a 4Runner wave would catch on any more than a Focus wave, or...

I used an FM modulator relay with my Sirius for a while in my last truck, but went with the direct connection/NAV SYS control of my Sportster 4 when I got my '08 Runner. It does cost a little more, yes, but the sound quality (not talking about interference) is noticably better. I don't think FM...

Not true. I get over 20 with mine, even when I use a calculator at fillup. Once I got her broken in, my 4Runner started giving me between 20-21mpg with every tank, both on the truck's computer and the calculator, and my 2008's 23k miles may include 100-150 freeway miles, total. This morning, I...

When I refill, my range is often 325-350. It's nothing to get 350-360 miles out of a tank for me. The computer routinely reports 20.6mpg (non-towing)and my driving is mainly a hybrid of lots of 2 lane country roads, some in-town driving, and very little highway (interstate) miles. I don't think...

More fire to an old post: DRLs are fine. I like that my Runner's are the amber turn signal lamps instead of low intensity high-beams...that's my take on it. To pan on DRLs, one would think that these same folks are against seatbelts and airbags too...did these same folks rail on moving the...

Could also be "winter gas". Required additives to gasoline in certain areas of North America will lower MPG during the winter months. Can't comment on Canada, where I assume you are since you're talking kilometers in lieu of miles. If you're not in NA period, can't say at all. I don't know what...

Yeah, the OP can do what they choose, but my wife's Pontiac G8 GT has a "switchblade" key and I don't care for it. I took the "wife's key" when we bought it, which is a regular style, non-retracting key. I do like the actual key design tho, it's one of those that no hardware store can copy - a...

I don't have any points on where to find a front hitch, but did have another thought. How much worse, really, is driving a new 4Runner on the beach than it is "up North", or anywhere really, where they are routinely spraying 'brine' on the roads during the winter to counteract snow and ice?

That's sarcasm, right? Of course we would, while we still can. They're trying to ban a lot of our beach driving here in NC...But hey, for the salt and sand, there's a thing called a garden hose and water (or in my case, a pressure washer)...I've been beach 4wheeling for decades and never had a...