Finally a 100 Series Owner!

[willc]

New wheels and tires. I like the Icon wheels- no spacers, no rubbing. Discount Tire was great to work with- found better prices online but they priced matched at Discount. I'm kicking around the idea of taking off the running boards, but I don't mind them. We'll see.

Next on the list will be getting an alignment and the windshield molding corrected. Thank you for the feedback on that @Red Beard .

 

[willc]

And yes the 200 series I drove was relatively high miles, seemed tundra-ish to me on the interior. Felt kinda like a 8-9 year old SUV- dated tech, nothing that made me smile. Maybe part of it was after taxes it would've been like 40k and then you have to start making the analysis about buying a 8-9 year old vehicle vs what you could purchase 2-4 years old in the same price bracket.

100 series IMO it's past being JUST dated and now it's getting into that old school cool category. Maybe not quite yet but I mean... the first ones were released in what 1998? So the styling is almost 25 years old. I expect everything to be dated and it's part of the charm to me. Maybe I'll change my tune in a few months after the maint/repair bills, but for now I'm just grinning looking at the thing and driving it around!

 

[cghall98]

New wheels and tires. I like the Icon wheels- no spacers, no rubbing. Discount Tire was great to work with- found better prices online but they priced matched at Discount. I'm kicking around the idea of taking off the running boards, but I don't mind them. We'll see.
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Next on the list will be getting an alignment and the windshield molding corrected. Thank you for the feedback on that @Red Beard .

Go ahead and take the running boards off. You’ll thank me when you do it!

I installed the factory front mud flaps when I took off my running boards so the rockers are still protected from mud and rocks being slung. 3rd pic for comparison of on and off.

 

[willc]

Go ahead and take the running boards off. You’ll thank me when you do it!

I installed the factory front mud flaps when I took off my running boards so the rockers are still protected from mud and rocks being slung. 3rd pic for comparison of on and off.

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Can’t lie, that does look way better!

 

[willc]

Grom Vline somewhat installed. My wife gave it to me as the early Xmas present. Awesome gift- one of the top gifts I’ve received- because it keeps on giving every time I drive and pull up my maps or music.

With the encouragement @cghall98, I took a crack at self installing this thing- and he was right it wasn’t hard to do. I got the system in workable order in about two hours.

I had a couple of hang ups, but nothing major. Including:

My wooden trim piece clips pretty much disintegrated on the bottom. Thankfully it didn’t effect reinstalling the piece. And thankfully it’s not rattling around on every bump in the road.

I watched a Grom video where they had an aux cable the fit into the cigarette lighter, but in the kit they just sent a regular aux cable. I also couldn’t get that cigarette lighter out of the trim piece for the life of me. Or maybe I should say, I couldn’t gently remove it, so I’m leaving it for now.

My aux cable is staying in the glove box currently with the unit. With my iPhone wire running out to plug into. Not ideal, but I had some time constraints and plan on circling back around on cleaning everything up. I was messing with trying to get wireless CarPlay going for an hour or so and couldn’t get it functioning properly yet.

One quirk that I need to get sorted out is that if my phone isn’t plugged in before the car starts, carplay won’t load up. I think it’s because it’s getting into a loop of trying to connect wirelessly and the system gives preference to the wireless connection so it won’t acknowledge the wired connection.

No huge deal on any of this. Overall awesome upgrade. Makes the 100 (and I assume any earlier vehicle with dated nav) a lot easier to “live with.” It’s not an ideal solution, and it’s not cheap imo, but so far it’s well worth it.

 

[cghall98]

Grom Vline somewhat installed. My wife gave it to me as the early Xmas present. Awesome gift- one of the top gifts I’ve received- because it keeps on giving every time I drive and pull up my maps or music.

With the encouragement @cghall98, I took a crack at self installing this thing- and he was right it wasn’t hard to do. I got the system in workable order in about two hours.

I had a couple of hang ups, but nothing major. Including:

My wooden trim piece clips pretty much disintegrated on the bottom. Thankfully it didn’t effect reinstalling the piece. And thankfully it’s not rattling around on every bump in the road.

I watched a Grom video where they had an aux cable the fit into the cigarette lighter, but in the kit they just sent a regular aux cable. I also couldn’t get that cigarette lighter out of the trim piece for the life of me. Or maybe I should say, I couldn’t gently remove it, so I’m leaving it for now.

My aux cable is staying in the glove box currently with the unit. With my iPhone wire running out to plug into. Not ideal, but I had some time constraints and plan on circling back around on cleaning everything up. I was messing with trying to get wireless CarPlay going for an hour or so and couldn’t get it functioning properly yet.

One quirk that I need to get sorted out is that if my phone isn’t plugged in before the car starts, carplay won’t load up. I think it’s because it’s getting into a loop of trying to connect wirelessly and the system gives preference to the wireless connection so it won’t acknowledge the wired connection.

No huge deal on any of this. Overall awesome upgrade. Makes the 100 (and I assume any earlier vehicle with dated nav) a lot easier to “live with.” It’s not an ideal solution, and it’s not cheap imo, but so far it’s well worth it.

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Good stuff!

I ran into the issues with the Aux cable and cigarette lighter too. Let me know and I can help you out with that!

Also, the phone mount solution if you are interested.

 

[willc]

Not much to report. Been out of town and came back to a wet hatch. Ran the hose over it and found it is coming from the third brake light. I replaced the seal with butyl tape and clear silicone to seal around the outside. From looking at it, I think the light is a little bowed so I'm expecting the silicone to do more to prevent water intrusion than the butyl tape. I'm going to let it set up over night before running the hose over it again.

Also had the cats replaced.

I'm hoping in a month or two to get a new windshield and get it sealed properly. Maybe replace some of the speakers if I can do it done without spending an arm and a leg. I feel like decent speakers from 2023 will probably sound a lot better than 17-18 year old stock speakers.

Overall I'm having fun with the truck- not excited to do the little maint and repairs, but I am excited to drive it and to have something a little more unique than a lot of what's out on the road.

 

[cghall98]

Not much to report. Been out of town and came back to a wet hatch. Ran the hose over it and found it is coming from the third brake light. I replaced the seal with butyl tape and clear silicone to seal around the outside. From looking at it, I think the light is a little bowed so I'm expecting the silicone to do more to prevent water intrusion than the butyl tape. I'm going to let it set up over night before running the hose over it again.

Also had the cats replaced.

I'm hoping in a month or two to get a new windshield and get it sealed properly. Maybe replace some of the speakers if I can do it done without spending an arm and a leg. I feel like decent speakers from 2023 will probably sound a lot better than 17-18 year old stock speakers.

Overall I'm having fun with the truck- not excited to do the little maint and repairs, but I am excited to drive it and to have something a little more unique than a lot of what's out on the road.

Great updates! Had to add silicone to the third brake light myself. That’ll fix it though.

As far as speakers, I left the front door tweeters since they were fine. I replaced the front door woofers and the rear door speakers for a couple hundred bucks. Not a hard job and used the factory mounts and factory wiring. Sounds way way better. PM me if you want more details of the speakers I got

 

[willc]

Great updates! Had to add silicone to the third brake light myself. That’ll fix it though.

As far as speakers, I left the front door tweeters since they were fine. I replaced the front door woofers and the rear door speakers for a couple hundred bucks. Not a hard job and used the factory mounts and factory wiring. Sounds way way better. PM me if you want more details of the speakers I got

Thank you and will do!