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There should be 9 screws total (5 across the front and 2 each on the sides). If you had less, some people have reported that the screws weren't all tightened at the factory and came loose, so maybe your missing bolts are riding around in someone's tire.

Have you tried moving the x-bars? I'm just guessing since there's no obvious reason for the holes but I wonder if those holes have something to do with the cross bars only allowed to be placed in a few locations and some pin in the cross bars has to drop in the holes? So in other words there...

The stock hybrid numbers are pretty far below factory claims (11% below HP, 8% below torque), whereas the non hybrid is only about 3% below factory HP but ~8% above on torque.

Nice! Just curious, how did you choose that particular dealership among the 9 or so in the Phoenix area? Is that the only one that participated in the Costco program?

I may have been thinking of another vehicle for my earlier comment. I found a video on removing the fender flares from a gen3 tacoma (may or may not be the same on the gen4, and in turn the g6 4runner): It has both screws on the underside, and snap-in retainer clips along the body panel...

I wondered what happened since you first showed this. In a YT video (I forget who it was by), I got the impression there are screws on the inner fender that pull this fender flare piece toward the body, so maybe it's just a matter of tweaking one or two of those screws to tighten it up? Still...

The dealer markup on those things is ridiculous. It does look good in that color; the sticker lists it as Nardo Gray, which is an Audi color. I for one, wish Toyota had included Bronze Oxide (from the tacomas) on the 2025 4runners. I don't think any wrap could replicate the way that paint looks...

Agree it looks good. If you look at the markings on all your car windows, the windshield (all windshields) is marked AS1 (very high impact resistance and is clear except for a top few inch tinted portion (the AS1 line), and (on my older Tacoma anyway) the front side windows are marked AS2 and...

Back around 2012 or so, Infiniti had a gloss version of a color that could be described that way, called Malbec Black. In bright sun it was either a deep purple or a deep burgundy red, depending on angle, but without the direct sun, it looked essentially black.

You had window film from the factory? I've never heard of that. Dealer-installed is all I've ever seen, and they never give you documentation on what brand/line they install. PS is that a dark purple wrap?

Does 0% on rear windows mean no film applied (i.e. just the factory tint that is inside the glass, which is fairly dark already), or does XPEL actually have a 100% VLT film (i.e. clear) that was applied to all 7 windows behind the main doors?

The white roof wrap will be interesting to see. But I don't see a clean body line for the white wrap to end at the bottom of the C and D pillars (and back to the liftgate too). Are you going to have an additional trim piece installed to make that clean break?

What were you going to have done and how much was the quote?

It seems almost certain that a matte film will shift it more toward baby blue. But since the original color had such variation in blueness depending on lighting, maybe it will only be in certain lighting that it (subjectively) looks "too" baby blue. I would also imagine that a matte film would...

Presuming you've washed it several times now, how's that Heritage Blue holding up to swirls and fine scratches, if you look for them? Also, which roof rack is that?