Zam15’s Tacoma Build

[Zam15]

Last pods delivered! All that's left it to mount the bumper and wire everything up!

We'll see how everything throws after that, what's nice about Baja Designs and Diode Dynamics is that all the lenses are swappable, so if I change my mind I can change any of the patterns or swap from yellow to clear or vice versa.

Currently have SAE Fogs and combo lenses, may look into SAE driving or flood depending. Hope Diode Dynamics matches the number of lens options that Baja has made.

Trying to have optimal lighting for all driving environments, rain, fog, snow, sand storms, open desert, narrow canyons, open roads, tight forest trails.

Bumper was also reworked/trimmed to fix damage, additional antenna/desert flags mounts added to give more options as everything had to be repainted.

 

[Zam15]

Back in business and ready for the mountainsd

 

[Zam15]

Did make it out for some camping this weekend however was a nice outing, hope to get even more soon.

Keeping cool in the mid-day heat!

 

[AggieOE]

Love that cab set-up. I am genuinely curious, what made you decide that you needed more lights up front?

 

[Zam15]

Love that cab set-up. I am genuinely curious, what made you decide that you needed more lights up front?

Old lights were ok, but needed replacing as they were damaged. I found that my previous HIDs lights were not enough in Baja darkness alone, add the previous LED pods and they were ok for close in stuff.

But I also wanted lights I could use on the road, so now have SAE Fogs, now. will likely swap the center pods to SAE Driving to augment my high beams.

Also wanted a wider spread, hence the bumper wing lights for finding camp and seeing off to the side of the vehicle. I also use the backlights as turn signals so that helps with visibility.

Wanted a setup that would work for all conditions, fog, rain, snow, dust, open dessert, open highway and around town.

I've been in rain so bad at night you could not make out the roads or markers, headlights alone were not cutting it.

But yeah, when everything is switched on at once its kind of overkill.

 

[NEVERENOUGHAZ]

It has been over a year since a post. Do you still have the truck? Any new updates? Love the build btw.

 

[Zam15]

It has been over a year since a post. Do you still have the truck? Any new updates? Love the build btw.

Hey! Still around, just don't post op often lol

Did get some out of this word trips in and and some minor build updates.

 

[Zam15]

 

[NEVERENOUGHAZ]

Thanks for sharing. You were in my neck of the woods.

 

[Zam15]

Had an overnight beach site open up and decided to snag it, overcast but was a nice mental break.

 

[Zam15]

Been wanting Starlink for a while, but the space and power requirements were a challenge.

As soon as Starlink Mini was announced it was an instant buy for me. Now to decide if it's worth hard mounting or just keep it 100% mobile.

 

[Zam15]

USB to DC5521 cable finally arrived for the Starlink Mini, now I can run off USB power banks. Official cable should be out in due time.


Not too shabby, decent speed. Ranges from 50-120Mbps


Already seen several example on why this would be extremely helpful to have in the back country or even on a major highway...

 

[Mickey Bitsko]

The Rubicon can be brutal,
Home safe and sound?

 

[4RunAmok]

I think he showed them as examples of why satellite internet is a good idea.

 

[Zam15]

The Rubicon can be brutal,
Home safe and sound?

I think he showed them as examples of why satellite internet is a good idea.

Yeah guy has a KOH race team, so they were able to fix it and make it off the trail.

But just shows how useful COMMS can be out in the back country.