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Our experience ('06 SR5 4wd, appx 80k miles): So far it has been very reliable and it feels like a solid car (no "that's going to be a problem someday" type gremlins yet). The earlier Sequoias had a handful of problems that you should probably be aware of. Scanning Tundrasolutions for threads...

Thanks for taking the time to post this detailed explanation... I found it very helpful.

What a mind-blowing experience. Kids seem to get shorter summers and a lot more breaks than we did 20 years ago, but October is well into the year, school didn't "just start". I can understand (but don't agree with) someone getting on your case if you were at the grocery store or at...

Thanks for showing this off, it is an awesome find! I have always thought lifted IFS vehicles looked vulnerable underneath because of all of the pieces hanging so low. That solution is super tidy and appears to make a huge difference right at the breakover point where you need it most...

This is interesting and I might try it out. The price is sure right, and I think I have some spare 123 cells. FWIW the bulb they show is 6v and 3x3v batteries = 9v. I suspect that this has bad implications for bulb durability. (but at that price, who cares?)

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but have you looked at the Tundra 16x7 5-hole steel wheel? I'd assume that one would. If not, the 17x7.5 (yeah, I know, not 16") 16-hole FJ Cruiser spare would do the job, I'd think.

Subscribed. I don't have anything helpful to offer but have a Great Dane that is a consideration for doing more outdoorsy stuff. I'm curious what everyone has to say!

I suspect that's not the case. It would take approximately 175A of draw to drop half a volt on that cable. I don't believe a regular lead acid battery would draw that kind of current, and even if it did, I don't believe it would for very long -- as the voltage of the alternator and the battery...

I'm not a lawyer, or anything close. I've given thoughts to modifying seats/safety systems to suit my perceived needs and I keep coming back to one problem: If you get into a wreck, and it's not your fault, and the person in the modified seat gets hurt, you may have a very difficult time...

It could also be brake rotors. You might try coasting to a stop with the lightest brake force to do the job and see if you can feel it lurching forward as the rotors spin. My Toyota manufactured car (Lexus GS400) has this problem and I've given up trying to get it to go away. One stop from...

Don't sweat it. It's theoretically a concern, but in practice it just scrubs tread off of your tires a little bit faster and slightly hurts the turning radius (while in 4wd mode). Cornering can actually be helpful in these cases, as it directs large amounts of torque to individual tires, they...

The trees are cheaper -- partly because they don't carry the prestige, and partly because they're available in far more modest configurations. Looking at new models you can get a minimally configured Sequoia for just over half the starting point of a LC. Put a stripper/cloth interior into a LC...

Hello. Sequoia owner here (late first gen: 2006). Thoughts: Insofar as reliability is concerned, my advice would be to get the newest vehicle you can afford. This probably means the Sequoia. My opinion about Toyota is that they jumped the shark in 1998, and selecting one newer is like playing...

I want to hate it (and, frankly, I don't have much use for it myself), but it looks great, and it appears to be very well executed. It's definitely the best looking Edge-family vehicle, IMO. Despite a few people making them into good offroaders, the heritage of the Explorer is definitely in the...

I have an Evo. My experience is that it's bad but not as bad as it's made out to be. I'm paranoid about running out of battery, and irritated by the GPS notification flickering all of the time, so I turned GPS, wifi, and 4g off. It will go four hours without any indicated drop in battery. I bet...

This, conveniently, just showed up. Perhaps it's an angle you could consider: http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=44286

Weird. It looks like that spring is supposed to do something for the old regulator/motor but not the new one. It's obviously not critical, I guess... On a related note, we had a problem with our '06 where the rear wiper and washer stopped working. I was kind of frustrated/bummed about it...

I know it's not exactly what you're looking for, but if you have some room in your engine bay, perhaps a York engine-driven compressor would be suitable? Lots of volume/pressure for large Unimog tires and no voltage concerns. :)

Did the box have a door or did you install stuff through a removed panel and then solder it closed? In the walk-in RF chambers we were using there was a hole the size of a quarter in the bottom corner of the cage and the lead RF engineer said that it was enough leakage to totally invalidate...

At a former employer we did wireless device testing in a 1 cubic meter copper walled box (solid, not mesh). You need to have some way to get data (and probably power) in and out of a box of that sort. If you have pictures of your setup perhaps we can look at it to see what might be wrong. For...