What have you done to your 5th Gen 4Runner today?

Speaking as the father of four daughters, one of which remains in college, this deserves its own thread. I’m impressed with her boldness. I also think Rav4s are great!

 

Ah the humor of children. Gotta love it. Right?

I hope you countered the point "Well, you are right. HOWEVER....it was MY money to begin with so I will do exactly what I want with it."

 

That's pretty cool. I'd be tempted to give my 4R to my daughter if she'd have saved me that much in tuition. Luckily the car is paid for and there's enough in her account to cover tuition but dang that'd be sweet.

 

Nice. Who’s paying for the PHD?

 

The PhD is paid for by the University and she gets a stipend to live on. She also graduates in May, Summa cum laude, with majors in Bio Chemistry, Math, and a minor in Spanish . So happy she got her intelligence from her mom and not me.

 

Congrats to both of you! She'll fit right in AZ with a 4Runner. Tons of them there. But wait, does she know how hot it gets there? My 1st 57 years were in AZ. I don't miss it! Good luck to her on the PhD!

 

With two grown daughters to base this on..............give her her 4Runner (irrefutable logic if you were 20 something.....Pops), or don't. Either way, she'll be terrific. Mom may get the tip of the hat on the smarts, but a $ buck fifty says the "after all, it was my money" argument came from your gene pool. Ironic she paid attention to your parenting after all, isn't it?

 

Pls post diy I luv u

 

Just got back from HD run for the $2.00 bags of Scott's Brown mulch 12 ea. gonna goo back tomorrow for 12 more ,sales ends then. I believe that 1/2 price. Yup saved $1.97+tax had to circumvent some closed roads, a lot of downed trees & have lost pwr twice this afternoon. Wicked winds here.

 

pretty damn good! Were they 2 ft.³ bags? If not Walmart has those sale for $2.47.

 

1.5 Cu.ft https://www.homedepot.com/p/Earthgro-1-5-cu-ft-Brown-Wood-Shredded-Bagged-Mulch-88659180/311613385

 

Put new hood struts on my 2011. The old ones were getting weak. I got some from Amazon they work great. Took about 5 minutes to install.

 

hah! that’s funny
dude I had a dream on the weekend that shit was rattling really bad under the truck, random people were making fun of me and shit. So I had to get under there and I had almost lost a skid plate because my damn bolts stripped out and I did the same thing I woke up and I was like oh my God it was a dream it was all a bad dream.

* Joe Rogan made a good point about dreams actually, suggesting do we really know where we go in our dreams do we actually go to another dimension, why does no one care that we just completely shut off and go off-line for eight hours at a time?
** for example, why do you often immediately wake up out of a seemingly deep sleep when you almost die, or are about to get injured, or you’re falling.. what’s really happening.

 

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@Borracho Loco I’m constantly worried about catching another mandatory vacation because I really like it here, but you sir give no F’s. Have you ever been locked up yet in 4Rs .com Guantánamo?

 

I have spent 0 days in the 4Runners.com clink. I'm the John Gotti of this site. The teflon Borracho!

 

First, congrats on raising an amazing person!

I had a similar conversation with my son before he started his PhD, only over my 1981 BJ42-T. That is how I ended up on this forum . I did give him the Land Cruiser. It took me 2 years to find a good replacement in my 2019 4Runner. It is slowly getting built up for the trail. We take them both out each year to the Lone Star Land Cruiser Round Up in Mason, TX. For me, his achievements were worth the sacrifice.

Ultimately it worked out for both of us, he got the cool factor rig and I got something comfortable and modern. Wheeling they are comparable.

 

Yeah, she was down to North Carolina or University of Arizona, I gave her the pros and cons. Arizona, all beach no ocean, more things that can kill you, so much hotter, farther from home, she still picked Arizona. I would take August heat/no humidity in Arizona over August heat/ 95% humidity in the southern area of The People's Republic of Illinois.

 

Taking my running boards off today. Put them back on for winter to keep the slop off the sides. They just get in my way and don’t really like them

 

Today I installed Kicker KSC270 in dash speaker. the clarity is much improved sound quality. got window tinted a little bit ago and finally changed the light inside to led.

 

Like the badge a lot.

 

Clever girl!

One correction to your post: "...she wants to take HER 4Runner..."

 

It’s a repop , there still available, just google it, cast aluminum, pretty good quality

 

Drove Photon to the hardware store for some nuts n bolts, realized I need to give her a good bath…spring is def here (sigh)

 

Got a matching wheel and tire, added 5th tpms to spare location.

 

I had all 36 psi the other day, should have bought a lottery ticket

 

Did the 2nd HD run & got Bakers dozen bags of Mulch for the price of 12, kid lost count!

 

(Off Topic) FYI: Been reading reports of plastic,glass,screws & other non organic materials being found in HD "mulch" so beware if that at all matters to you.

 

So you can add a TPMS to the spare