What did you do TO your FJ Cruiser TODAY?

Kaiju said:

Oooh, those look nice! And $70 off with the sale! Thanks for posting this.

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Did you see up top that I put some pics of my wife's Mazda I was doing. They seem to be a good product.
They came in a big box so they weren't wrinkled.

bigfloppa said:

Got my FJ beached on a snow berm on the Al-can highway, deep in the Yukon, going 40 MPH. A plower had gone through before me and somehow left a big berm in the middle of my lane, and there was a huge blizzard so visibility was around 20 feet.

No cell service, no shovel, no winch, -10° outside temp and dropping. Beached like a whale. Luckily I had outdoor gear enough to dig outside in the snow with regular breaks inside the cruiser to warm back up while I watched my fuel gauge get lower and lower. Got stuck at 10:30pm, got unstuck at 4am after digging probably 1-2 thousand pounds of snow with a piece of firewood, and popping her in 4-low and locking the rear diff. Dented my fuel tank pretty good, but no leaks somehow.

Lessons learned: all that dorky overland recovery gear is not always just for decoration, haha. Got humbled good. View attachment 1225972 View attachment 1225973

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Wow man… glad you’re ok. What an ordeal.

bigfloppa said:

Got my FJ beached on a snow berm on the Al-can highway, deep in the Yukon, going 40 MPH. A plower had gone through before me and somehow left a big berm in the middle of my lane, and there was a huge blizzard so visibility was around 20 feet.

No cell service, no shovel, no winch, -10° outside temp and dropping. Beached like a whale. Luckily I had outdoor gear enough to dig outside in the snow with regular breaks inside the cruiser to warm back up while I watched my fuel gauge get lower and lower. Got stuck at 10:30pm, got unstuck at 4am after digging probably 1-2 thousand pounds of snow with a piece of firewood, and popping her in 4-low and locking the rear diff. Dented my fuel tank pretty good, but no leaks somehow.

Lessons learned: all that dorky overland recovery gear is not always just for decoration, haha. Got humbled good. View attachment 1225972 View attachment 1225973

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Looks like just the tank guard, doing what it’s there for. Glad you got out. Yep never leave without a shovel/spade, any time of year! I got stuck in a drift up the Dempster, passing traffic thought I was just being a tourist and carried on by… I dug myself out with shovel and using the floor mats… they’ll give you a good bit of traction!

bigfloppa said:

Got my FJ beached on a snow berm on the Al-can highway, deep in the Yukon, going 40 MPH. A plower had gone through before me and somehow left a big berm in the middle of my lane, and there was a huge blizzard so visibility was around 20 feet.

No cell service, no shovel, no winch, -10° outside temp and dropping. Beached like a whale. Luckily I had outdoor gear enough to dig outside in the snow with regular breaks inside the cruiser to warm back up while I watched my fuel gauge get lower and lower. Got stuck at 10:30pm, got unstuck at 4am after digging probably 1-2 thousand pounds of snow with a piece of firewood, and popping her in 4-low and locking the rear diff. Dented my fuel tank pretty good, but no leaks somehow.

Lessons learned: all that dorky overland recovery gear is not always just for decoration, haha. Got humbled good. View attachment 1225972 View attachment 1225973

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Glad you got out. It feels good to do it on your own. I put cheap heated seat covers in mine in the winter in case I slid off and couldn't keep the engine on.

i12c said:

Safelite Repair followed by Covercraft hail protection from crazy San Diego weather tonight. Unrelated incidents. Oncoming traffic kicked up a pea-sized pebble which smacked the glass and tonight, pea-sized hail fell in North SD County:

Photos: Hail, snow fall in parts of San Diego County

From the East County to the South Bay, the San Diego area experienced wintry conditions Wednesday as a cold storm moved through the region.

fox5sandiego.com

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Glass is definitely my biggest complaint.
They never order the right stuff to do windshield.

i12c said:

Safelite Repair followed by Covercraft hail protection from crazy San Diego weather tonight. Unrelated incidents. Oncoming traffic kicked up a pea-sized pebble which smacked the glass and tonight, pea-sized hail fell in North SD County:

Photos: Hail, snow fall in parts of San Diego County

From the East County to the South Bay, the San Diego area experienced wintry conditions Wednesday as a cold storm moved through the region.

fox5sandiego.com

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I finally had to do glass also. You may want to read about it in here if you haven't. The installers sometimes break clips which will eventually make the "cowell" pieces fly off. Also the rubber piece "ornament" on the antenna may get torn up. Mine did.

The FJ is now a little over 10 yrs old w/ 70K miles, I bought it new in December 2012.

So last week I replaced: the coolant (including draining the block on pass side), the two radiator hoses, new radiator cap, and put in a new thermostat. First time ever and the coolant didn't look too bad. Did not replace the heater hoses, prob should have. Also put in a new belt and replaced the 3 idler pulleys. All went well.

Today I went to do a trans drain and fill, since it's been 2 yrs since my last change. Welp, the drain plug was hard to remove, and I knew something wasn't right. I must have done something stupid last time. Trans pan threads stripped. So, I ordered a new pan, new gasket, new drain plugs and the 20 pan bolts. Might just buy a new filter since the pan will be off. I'll have to buy a couple more qts of WS, as I have 4 qts now, since I'm assuming more fluid will come out when I drop the pan/filter.

So the FJ is parked until I get it fixed.

MikefromTN said:

I finally had to do glass also. You may want to read about it in here if you haven't. The installers sometimes break clips which will eventually make the "cowell" pieces fly off. Also the rubber piece "ornament" on the antenna may get torn up. Mine did.

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I’m on my third windshield. Luckily, this was only a chip fix. I stuck with OEM Toyota for the first two, but went aftermarket for the third. It seems to be just as good. Hopefully they will have FJ Gorilla Glass by my next full replacement. I ordered an extra head trim piece last time, but the tech did the replacement in my driveway under close (hovering) supervision and was able to save it.

rparker017 said:

The old yellow top has been a little sluggish on cold days. Good time to install the genesis kit.

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Is that a Gen2 or a Gen3? I'm looking at a Gen3 and G-Screen (although I wish he had something more like the RedArc screen — the G-Screen is so tiny)

i12c said:

I’m on my third windshield. Luckily, this was only a chip fix. I stuck with OEM Toyota for the first two, but went aftermarket for the third. It seems to be just as good. Hopefully they will have FJ Gorilla Glass by my next full replacement. I ordered an extra head trim piece last time, but the tech did the replacement in my driveway under close (hovering) supervision and was able to save it.

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I'm on the precipice of replacing the original windshield (2012, 120k miles) ... was thinking of going with OEM glass too; do you really think it's just as good?