What did you do to/in your 5th Gen today?!

Let's see that FR-S!


I actually have to order it through work. We have a lease program where I select what I want, submit the order, and it arrives a few months later to the dealer. I sign some papers and take my new car home. After dealing with a few dealers to nail down a deal for the 4Runner/Rav swap, the less I mess with dealers the better.

I'll say goodbye to my big guy on Monday. :(

Hopefully I'll be able to pick up a TE in 4 or 5 years as an additional toy.
 
Just thought I'd recap my week so far with everyone.

Monday: The speaker in my Iphone decided it would rather not work. Made using the phone function not possible unless it was it was on speaker.

Wednesday: Go to have phone fixed. They replace the speaker receiver. It works and I was on my way!
....couple of hours later....phone decided it wasn't going to work any more.

Thursday: Go to get in my truck and my TPMS light is on. It's been cold so I just figured the air was a little condensed. It wasn't driving funny so I decided to keep going and would check it once I got over to my girlfriends house. Get there and go to check and my passenger side rear tire was low. I planned to limp it down the street to the gas station that has air in a few minutes. I come back outside and the tire is now completely flat. I look up to my highlifted mounted on my Gobi, only to notice that it AND my Gobi brackets have been stolen off my truck. I change to my spare and head back to the police department on campus where I live at and file a police report

Friday: I go back to Apple and they replace my phone. Once I leave there, I head on down to a tire specialist in Buckhead. They tell me the valve core is bad. They "replace" it and send my on my way.
Later that evening, after its been parked for a little while, I come out to see it flat again. I'm pretty pissed off at this point.

So now I'm thinking that the tire shop did absolutely nothing besides putting the tire back on and putting air in it.

Today: I take it over to another tire shop which is actually a branch with the shop I went to on Friday. They look it over and find a hole in the side wall. Proving that the shop yesterday didn't do a damn thing.

It's such a sad shame at the amount of crooks in the world nowadays. End of rant!
 
Just thought I'd recap my week so far with everyone.

Monday: The speaker in my Iphone decided it would rather not work. Made using the phone function not possible unless it was it was on speaker.

Wednesday: Go to have phone fixed. They replace the speaker receiver. It works and I was on my way!
....couple of hours later....phone decided it wasn't going to work any more.

Thursday: Go to get in my truck and my TPMS light is on. It's been cold so I just figured the air was a little condensed. It wasn't driving funny so I decided to keep going and would check it once I got over to my girlfriends house. Get there and go to check and my passenger side rear tire was low. I planned to limp it down the street to the gas station that has air in a few minutes. I come back outside and the tire is now completely flat. I look up to my highlifted mounted on my Gobi, only to notice that it AND my Gobi brackets have been stolen off my truck. I change to my spare and head back to the police department on campus where I live at and file a police report

Friday: I go back to Apple and they replace my phone. Once I leave there, I head on down to a tire specialist in Buckhead. They tell me the valve core is bad. They "replace" it and send my on my way.
Later that evening, after its been parked for a little while, I come out to see it flat again. I'm pretty pissed off at this point.

So now I'm thinking that the tire shop did absolutely nothing besides putting the tire back on and putting air in it.

Today: I take it over to another tire shop which is actually a branch with the shop I went to on Friday. They look it over and find a hole in the side wall. Proving that the shop yesterday didn't do a damn thing.

It's such a sad shame at the amount of crooks in the world nowadays. End of rant!

bad week sorry man. :rain: I hate people that f^^^^^ steal
 
Until the store in San Jose is built I have to drive to Manteca to get my Bass Pro Shops fix. Bought my son a 4' trout rod for his 7-year birthday coming up in April.
 

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Just thought I'd recap my week so far with everyone.

Monday: The speaker in my Iphone decided it would rather not work. Made using the phone function not possible unless it was it was on speaker.

Wednesday: Go to have phone fixed. They replace the speaker receiver. It works and I was on my way!
....couple of hours later....phone decided it wasn't going to work any more.

Thursday: Go to get in my truck and my TPMS light is on. It's been cold so I just figured the air was a little condensed. It wasn't driving funny so I decided to keep going and would check it once I got over to my girlfriends house. Get there and go to check and my passenger side rear tire was low. I planned to limp it down the street to the gas station that has air in a few minutes. I come back outside and the tire is now completely flat. I look up to my highlifted mounted on my Gobi, only to notice that it AND my Gobi brackets have been stolen off my truck. I change to my spare and head back to the police department on campus where I live at and file a police report

Friday: I go back to Apple and they replace my phone. Once I leave there, I head on down to a tire specialist in Buckhead. They tell me the valve core is bad. They "replace" it and send my on my way.
Later that evening, after its been parked for a little while, I come out to see it flat again. I'm pretty pissed off at this point.

So now I'm thinking that the tire shop did absolutely nothing besides putting the tire back on and putting air in it.

Today: I take it over to another tire shop which is actually a branch with the shop I went to on Friday. They look it over and find a hole in the side wall. Proving that the shop yesterday didn't do a damn thing.

It's such a sad shame at the amount of crooks in the world nowadays. End of rant!


Sorry for all of your bad luck my friend
 
Backed the 4Runner out of the garage so I could get the bike out and enjoy the 75 degree weather today. :rockon:
 

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Took it for a bath and somehow ended up getting a GoPro :twitch: . This little guy is probably going to get me into a lot of trouble.


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Rented a cabin in Red River Gorge in Slade, KY for a bachelor party. A group went down early Friday to do some hiking before the cabin was ready. Did 5 mile Auxier Ridge loop and ate lunch up on the ridge overlooking Double Arch and Courthouse rock. The driveway of our cabin was cleared, but the road leading up to it was covered in snow/ice and was an all around disaster. The 4Runner was the only vehicle capable of making it back to the cabin, so I got to run a bunch of shuttles back and forth as more groups of guys showed up.

It snowed some more overnight, but the road out from cabin got some treatment before we really go up and going (too much soda the night before!), so a few of us went out for another day hike. Again, the 4runner performed well. Only had one issue--we followed a ranger back on a service road to get to a couple short out-and-back trails, and at one point the gravel road had degraded and was concealed by the fresh snow. My front right tire dipped in, and the slick road conditions propelled me into the ditch on the side. Was really close to getting out on my own with ATRAC, but the ice underneath the snow was too much. Ranger popped me out no problem, but definitely need to budget out some recovery gear of my own (and new tires!). No problems coming back out though. Cold all weekend, but extremely beautiful and still out on the trails. Definitely a needed break from the insanity back at the cabin. Now for the pics!
 

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Drove up to apple valley and picked up my new sliders from John at white knuckel off road. Spent the last 4 hours prepping and priming, and on track to install them tomorrow.
 
Took it for a bath and somehow ended up getting a GoPro :twitch: . This little guy is probably going to get me into a lot of trouble.


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You are going to enjoy the GoPro, I got one for Christmas and strapped it to a Garmin bean bag mount and had fun getting photos and video on a recent off-road trip from the dashboard. I had my co driver (wife) use the GoPro app on a smartphone to control the camera.
 
Today

Did not have as much fun as some of you. Washed the TE and did an oil change at 15K. I`m just not ready for10K oil change intervals.

Going for a root canal Monday am, I`ll bet the oil and filter change may be the easier of the two.
 
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You are going to enjoy the GoPro, I got one for Christmas and strapped it to a Garmin bean bag mount and had fun getting photos and video on a recent off-road trip from the dashboard. I had my co driver (wife) use the GoPro app on a smartphone to control the camera.



I just did a test run with the App on the iphone, freaking sweet! I was thinking of a suction cup but may go with the headrest mount
 
Mounted my lower Rigid grill yesterday, Dually's in last night and wired it up today, amazingly it works great, took it out after dinner and it had just started to snow, they really brighten things up. Need to work on aim a little bit but otherwise thrilled with it, cost aside the Rigid grills were super easy to mount. I followed [MENTION=57963]TOYSTRY[/MENTION] instructions for how to remove the lower grill (I didn't need to remove the upper), although I'll say I used a non-marring panel tool and the lower came out in about 30 seconds, then some of [MENTION=65614]Antman[/MENTION] pictures and instructions for getting through the firewall and it was much easier then expected. Need to decide how I want to mount a switch as I don't like what came with it. Will try to post a pic and hopefully it works, I've never put a pic up before…

Thanks for all the great write ups and pictures as I could NOT have done this without this site!
 

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Took her up to tahoe today for some snow......and got fake snow :rant:
 

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