Author Archive for Jason Lancaster
Jason Lancaster is the editor and founder of TundraHeadquarters.com. He has nearly a decade of experience on the retail side of the auto industry, and another decade of experience of the part and accessory side of the industry.
The Sarge Is In Charge
NOTE: Since we’ve asked people to submit their vehicles for consideration of being a TundraHeadquarters.com Featured Vehicle, we’ve been inundated with requests. We’ve got a few to post, and we’re going in order of when we were contacted. Without further adieu, here’s our next featured Tundra.
Sgt. Morris’s kick-ass CrewMax.
The list of equipment on this vehicle makes it special enough, but we want to take a minute to say thank you to Sgt. Morris and every other U.S. service man and woman. Your sacrifices enable us all to enjoy political and economic freedom many people in world can only dream about. Thank you.
Back to business now. Starting with the exterior, the sergeant’s truck has nerf bars and a bull bar by Westin, a Dee Zee low pro black metal toolbox, a Line-X liner, an AVS hood deflector, and a ReadyLift leveling kit. The chrome offsets nicely with the Pyrite paint – it’s a good look.
ProComp 6″ Lift Kit For The Tundra
Our last featured vehicle had a pretty wicked lift kit on it – the Stage 2 ProComp 6″ Lift with MX6 shocks and coilovers. We haven’t had a chance to witness an install yet, so we haven’t bothered to review one. However, we have found a really nice break down of the process on ToyotaTruckWorld.com.
See the ProComp install process.
The big news – the install requires a lot of experience. You’re going to need to cut one of the factory differential supports to get it to go, not to mention a lot of care and effort needs to be taken to get everything together. We’ve said this before about lift kits, but this time we really mean it – it’s probably best to let a professional install the ProComp 6″ kit on your Tundra.
Duracover Toyota Tundra Tonneau Cover Review
We were recently given the opportunity to review the Duracover tonneau cover for the Toyota Tundra, and we obviously jumped at the opportunity.
See all the photos we took of the Duracover for the Tundra.
First, a little background on Durakon Industries. Durakon is probably best known (to truck owners at least) as a bed liner manufacturer. They supply hard plastic bed liners to a lot of OEMs – Ford, GM, and Nissan have all contracted with Durakon to supply factory plastic bed liners for their new trucks. Durakon’s expertise isn’t limited to bed liners, however – they also supply tonneau covers, bed mats, and other high strength plastic components to OEMs and as after market products. Durakon, for instance, manufacturers the Honda Ridgeline’s award winning tonneau cover, a big chunk of the Avalanche’s cargo system, and the cover for the Subaru Baja (among others). A lot of times when you buy an after market part, you’re worried about quality. Based on Durakon’s background, we were expecting a high quality item. We were not disappointed.
Stevinson’s Prize-Winning Lifted Tundra
Jason, our admin, was visiting Stevinson Toyota West last week and was taken aback by the Tundra in their showroom. Check it out:
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This truck is awesome. They started with a brand new Tundra Limited Doublecab 4×4 and added a ProComp 6″ lift, ARB front bumper, Warn 12k winch, Leer tonneau cover, TRD exhaust, TRD cold air intake, TRD rear sway bar, Ultra Motosports 20″ Goliath wheels, and Toyo Open Country 37″ tires. They’ve also done some paint work – Applewood Auto Body painted some very nice ghost flames and added blacked-out logos. They also painted the door handles, mirrors, and grill to match. It’s a trick truck – check out more photos below.
Toyota Tundra Production Cuts, Good Time To Buy Or Lease
Toyota, in response to large dealer inventories of the new Toyota Tundra and Toyota Sequoia, has cut back production slightly for an indefinite period.
Toyota sites increasing gas prices and a slow housing market for slowing Tundra and Sequoia sales.
The specific numbers aren’t known, but the rumor is production is being cut by a little more than 10%. That would put the annual production figure between 200k and 225k units. Depending upon summer sales, it’s possible that number could be cut further.
What this means:
