Recent content by photorunner

My first 4WD had white letters out (25 years ago) but one trip to Moab took care of that, lol. I can empathize, I got pinstripes on mine in the first 2 months of ownership. The alders overgrow the trails here fast.

Black out, definitely. Especially on a vehicle that spends time off pavement- the white lettering never stays white in that case.

Yeah, I’m 6’6” so the grab handles are a nothing burger and I can’t think of a reason where I was longing to turn off the display. So all in all, I’m missing nothing, lol. Of course after 25 years of driving Toyotas I am biased.

This was a much easier decision for me, given the $25k price difference between the TH and SR5. I like to swap parts, so it was an easy choice because I knew I was going to upgrade the things I wanted to upgrade either way. I owned a 5th gen ORP and still ended up adding a bunch of parts, so I...

Yeah, but that doesn’t keep the other parts from being interchangeable. The suspension parts are all interchangeable, obviously not the sway bars.

I can’t think of a reason you’d have any trouble swapping suspensions, as far as I know they’re interchangeable.

I think 2 inches in the front might be slightly high based on the lift I just did- not 5100’s though. I had 5100’s on my 4th gen and they were totally fine, obviously there are better and worse options. I can’t remember which snap ring settings the 5100’s have, but I think something around 1.75”...

I’m sure someone would swap with you if you wanted the smaller screen. I felt the same way, I did not like the larger screen.

Last summer I was driving on a trail off road in 4HI and noticed after a long uphill climb that my transmission temp was creeping up pretty high. I read later online that this doesn’t happen when the vehicle is put into 4LO in that situation. It was not something I worried about in my 4th or 5th...

Well you’ve got 6 months to catch up with me - ya never know!

I might have the least amount of miles in relation to age. Mine is coming up on a year old and I just hit 11k.

I’m just going to add that unlike passenger cars, the batteries in the 4Runner are inside the fully boxed steel frame, so even in a rear end collision there should be less of a chance they would rupture just because of the way 4Runners are built vs unibody cars.

I owned a 2021 TRD ORP for 2 years and while there was no doubt it was durable it didn’t feel any different or better than my 2007- because it wasn’t, lol. Actually in some ways I preferred my 4th gen! For the record my son inherited my 4th and it’s still cruising along almost 20 years later...

I live in the PNW, so I've had the chance to experience this quite often in the last 11 months of ownership. I find that it's worst when you slow down -- which causes the water to move forward and then blow back. If you go fast, the water follows those channels towards the back of the hood and...

I'm also running the Cooper Discoverer R+T in 255/75 17 -- they've been really good, including rain. I've had them almost 10K miles, no issues.