Mine is arriving on Thursday - can't wait!! I actually called Dean up and placed the order over the phone - their 800 # was listed in one of the threads on here. Very nice guy! My strona is $160 shipped from PA to AZ, which is slightly cheaper than I would've had to pay for the one on eBay. I don't know whether the ebay seller is them - they're both in PA though.
Have other members experienced installation problems?? I'd think these should be straightforward "screw on".
BTW, I'm a new member - in fact, a new owner of 4Runner or Toyota, for that matter. I've always had Nissans and BMW's. I sold my '05 Frontier Crew Cab and got an '06 black Sport V8 4WD with barely 16k miles on it @$24,500 from a private seller - not a bad deal compared to what I could've gotten from any dealer with that amount of money. I really prefer Titanium Silver or the Gray color, but I suppose I couldn't be too picky since I wasn't buying a brand new vehicle from a dealer. I really liked the Frontier - drove well, very powerful and sweet 6spd. I hate to have to part ways with it but I just added another working dog and with the Frontier, I would not be able to put one 36" crate in the cab, let alone 2! I had the back of the cab completely set up for my black shepherd and my pet dog could ride in it with him fine. I used to lug the crate around in the back and put him up in it in the shade when we got to our training facilities. But I just added a malinois puppy and she's going to be a working dog also. I can't let them ride together in the cab. I could put two crates in the truck bed and haul them around, but summer is coming and they'd be fried to death in Arizona's brutal heat. So I had to shop for a SUV.
I've always liked the 4Runner's and wished Toyota would put standard transmission back into the 4Runner's, but I know that would be day-dreaming. That would simply be not for the US or North American market. And that was the only thing that was holding me back because I HATE automatic. Why why why would Americans want to put an automatic in a TRUCK or a SPORTS CAR???!!!!! javascript:smilie(':bash:')
bash It's just beyond me. But I've come to like the Runner's so much that I finally bent my own rule and started shopping for a 4Runner!! It was kind of like how I got my female malinois puppy..lol.. She's out of Ot Vitosha and both parents are fantastic working dogs (the dad will likely go to the World's). I had never wanted to get a female and was only looking at the male pups in the litter (she's the only female pup). I went to see and play with them 3 times at 3, 5 and 7 weeks. An hour each time for the first two times. Every time she just kept standing out in the crowd! By the 3rd time I went to pick out a boy to bring home at 7th week, it was an "agonizing" 2.5 hours! I probably should've asked Rodd to put her up so I could only focus on picking out a boy. But she just kept standing out and excelled in everything I tested - literally beat her brothers hands down! Finally, after 2.5 hours, she made me make an 180!! Now I'd spent lots of time finally narrowing down boy names to a couple that I really liked, they became useless and I had to start all over again..lol.. and I finally named her after I'd had her for more than a week! She's 10 weeks now and is such a fantastic puppy and a pleasure to have. javascript:smilie('
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stick out tongue I have very high hope for her! The addition of her in my family was the reason I went and got a 4Runner..... And so far, I'm LOVING my Runner !! (except for the gas mileage part) javascript:smilie('
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