Just bought a 2003 T4R SR5 V8

Oh fuck and you threw some blackies on!

 

Are you going to back to black or paint those plastics?

 

Don't do back to black as they are nowhere near black, do a heatgun treatment on them after a good wash and then you can use some good products in them if you want but I haven't had to add anything since my heatgun passes! Looks great and only thing I can say about the moog rears is they are supposedly really good. It don't have the same rust protection so paint them!!!! Looks great hope to get my tires soon, basically the only reason I haven't hit up any of the harder trails :/

 

Not sure yet... They were never black to begin with so not sure.

Heat gun method???

 

Oops just seeing this, yeap 9 dollar heat gun from harbor freight been using it for years. Did it on my Runner about 3 weeks ago maybe more now - hold it about 4-6 inches away from your cladding, and continually move it. You will need some good light for this and you will be AMAZED! your actually burning off the top layer of dried out cladding, and then it feels almost tacky for a bit. When doing it in good light you will see it start to melt a bit, and you will notice a silver flake in the plastic, that's when you move on a bit. Took me around 90 minutes to do the whole truck. It's on my build thread on t4r name is vandert over there. I am sure there are youtube how too's on this but I used to drive old VW MK2's with the plastic cladding so have been doing this since the late 1990's lol.

 

So whats the review on the tires after 4 months of use? I still haven't ordered tires and now am thinking I want to do my lowr control arm bushings and alignment AGAIN as my bushing are shot and making noise now. At this point 90 bucks for the energy suspension poly lower's are worth it as I did the moog lower ball joints last fall.

I still want to go to 35's but may end up getting a set of 285/70s and running them till they die nd then go to 35's, at that point should be able to have another vehicle and the jump to 35's won't kill my budget...

How are the tires wearing, any cupping? Noise level? how did they do in the weather sicne you got them?

I'm on the fence about going full mud tire and getting tops 30k miles out of them or getting these and getting 40+k out of them as the thirst for 35's is real

 

I'll be honest dude! These are some of the best tires I've owned! SMOOTH and about 12K on them already.. We had a light winter so I didn't get to test them, as far as general use and offroad use.. Surprisingly GREAT off road, good grip even in hard or soft dirt and on the road, as quiet as an AT can get I would assume. My wife's highway tires on her civic are louder! LOL! 10 out of 10 would buy again!