Considering all the modifications for your great LC

[t3lcfe]

Before you decide to do some mods for your great / lovely LC, ensure all stuffs you add in and / or OEM replacements are NOT DOWNGRADED (on-road and off-road drive quality, longevity, reliability, safety, comfort, etc.)

From Personally and experience , I rather save $$ and have the “right” things UPGRADED to my rigs. Most cheap and no reputation stuffs downgraded your beautiful and super engineered LC! Sometimes “good looking” doesn’t go parallel with “better performance”. In most cases, it goes opposite!

So far, I am super pleased with my upgraded mods and they serve my goals/uses exactly what I hope for.

This video attached here probably gives you generally ideas / reminders before you pull the trigger for key mods

Happy LC to all

 

[RideWithYanu]

Yeah some of the temu stuff I see people putting on their Land Cruisers definitely causes an eyebrow to raise.

 

[LCOceans]

Agree 100% and why I am unfortunately bugging people to get their thoughts on the mods. In the big picture of things we are just seeing the initial products. Future iterations surely to come as they improve. This is what I keep telling myself anyway as I try to deal with the FOMO of seeing these cool looking trucks but mine is still stock

 

[EOD Guy]

IMO It's your money, do what you want........ but make sure it's undoable! Don't cut parts off, don't drill holes where they can be seen, don't cut or tap into wires when you're not 100% sure of what those wires affect. etc.......... Knowledge comes from experience, experience comes from mistakes, the professionals know how to fix mistakes...... LOL

 

[D-Train]

Good video, he makes a lot of valid points. I don't plan on putting a lift on or doing any suspension mods as most of the miles will be on roads/dirt/gravel and not rock crawling. 33's and rims, sure. Slee makes some nice step/sliders I've been eyeing to replace the stock steps.

 

[PurelyAbrasive]

I agree with this I just plan on doing thing that I feel I want. I know that my LC may never see as much offroad use as some but I plan on putting thing on mine that will make it capable if I ever choose too. I have a roof rack coming this coming week and once my ditch lights arrive I will be mounting them. I do have some small rock lights I plan on mounting on the side of my roof rack, and I would like to get a new front bumper but I am going to wait on that as I want to see what new ones come out.

 

[JustinHEMI]

Good video, he makes a lot of valid points. I don't plan on putting a lift on or doing any suspension mods as most of the miles will be on roads/dirt/gravel and not rock crawling. 33's and rims, sure. Slee makes some nice step/sliders I've been eyeing to replace the stock steps.

Basically same, but I do want to put a winch and bumper on and to compensate for the sag, I am going to do these 1.5" springs. Nothing too drastic, just to compensate for the sag (and extra constant weight in the rear).

Alldogs Offroad Spacer Eraser Coil Spring Lift Kit for 250 Series Toyota Land Cruiser

www.alldogsoffroad.com

 

[t3lcfe]

I agree with this I just plan on doing thing that I feel I want. I know that my LC may never see as much offroad use as some but I plan on putting thing on mine that will make it capable if I ever choose too. I have a roof rack coming this coming week and once my ditch lights arrive I will be mounting them. I do have some small rock lights I plan on mounting on the side of my roof rack, and I would like to get a new front bumper but I am going to wait on that as I want to see what new ones come out.

Base on what you planned to use your LC (your post):
if you ever needed steel front bumper, the centric bumper is the one for you.
For suspension, you don’t need a lifted at all. Just keep stock and run 33” tires
Roof rack is great with side lights.
You may need to add additional “head” lights either at front bumper or at front roof rack.
That is not only looks great, but value “upgraded” for your “ light-light/medium off-road / camping”

I am not a fan for springs spacers, , especially, couple- hundred dollar ones! It makes your great engineered LC “downgraded” even it provides “cool” look

 

[PurelyAbrasive]

Base on what you planned to use your LC (your post):
if you ever needed steel front bumper, the centric bumper is the one for you.
For suspension, you don’t need a lifted at all. Just keep stock and run 33” tires
Roof rack is great with side lights.
You may need to add additional “head” lights either at front bumper or at front roof rack.
That is not only looks great, but value “upgraded” for your “ light-light/medium off-road / camping”

I am not a fan for springs spacers, , especially, couple- hundred dollar ones! It makes your great engineered LC “downgraded” even it provides “cool” look

Yep I have some Diode Dynamic SS3's on order for my ditch lights and I am going to put 4 of the Diode Dynamic rock lights on the roof rack. As for the front bumper I am looking at the DV8 centric bumper. I heard they are going to be adding a milled slot in the top of it so you can mount lights there. I really want to add 4 Diode Dynamic SS5's behind the front grill.