Welcome to Talons Garage!

I am very happy to be a vendor here at Tacoma world. As many of you know I am a very new company and am excited to grow and interact with the Tacoma community.
Who are we: At Talons Garage we are a husband and wife team. We started working together about 3 months ago. I take care of the manufacturing and my wife helps with the packing and shipping. We are enjoying growing this company, and love offering a product that helps so many others.
Interest: I have always been interested in all things with a motor! Land sea and air, I have had an interest in all. I started wrenching at 16, after I got my first truck. The day after I bought my first truck, it broke down on me. Being a broke high school kid, I had no other option but to fix it myself. The necessity from that situation has launched itself into a lifelong hobby around automotive sports. I am currently also working on binging my wife into the hobby!

Our Product: We offer a catalytic converter protection plate for the 3rd gen Tacoma. We are also working on getting a 2nd gen plate in line. Our plate is made from ¼” Aluminum and so far, the thickest one on the market. We also offer true security bolts available as an upgrade. These bolts come with a proprietary bit that can only be sourced though me.
Not only do we offer ¼” aluminum to offer maximum protection, but we also designed our plate to also function as an off-road skid plate. We will also be offering a front skid plate and transfer case skid plate package coming soon, so watch out for it.

Shipping and lead time: We generally have the plates on the shelf ready to ship. We advertise a week turn around, but generally can get them out the door in 2-3 days.

Questions? Feel free to ask away!


-Shaun and Crystal



www.talonsgarage.com

 

I am interested in one of these, does this work with the TRD skid plate installed?

 

Awesome!

You going to be on Tundras.com also? A lot of need for this as well there.

Awesome lead times!

 

Glad to see you guys as a TW vendor. I got one of your plates a few weeks ago and am super happy with it. The plate is so light while being so stout, very cool.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jmIpr_-ZHQ&ab_channel=JustCan’tSitStill

This is a video of the plate being installed on a TRD pro Tacoma. This video was actually made by another TacomaWorld member!

 

Congrats on vendor status! I've been watching this particular Cat plate for a while now here on TW. I just pulled the trigger and look forward to installing it.

 

You'll be pleased with the results. Make sure to put the spacer up against the bar/frame.

If you have no skid plate that extends that far, you may need to add washers/spacers.

Ed

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Yes, installing with TRD Pro skid plate. So I'll get the additional washers.

 

Hey thanks buddy I hope it helps out with some of the install questions.

 

You may not need the washers...I had to use them because I didn't have a plate at all covering the open bolt holes.

This photo shows the openness and also the dip inward/upward of the space that probably compensate for any additional plates added. Since I don't have an additional plate, there's a gap.



Here's what I'm talking about...if you can see how it's just the Talon bolted on and nothing else.





Once I get a TRD Pro skid plate, this probably won't be an issue.

Ed

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Roger. Wrong "washers" I was thinking of. I was thinking of the Talons Garage security screws, which I ordered too, and the YouTube vid recommended.

 

Yep I see it, I am going to look tonight on the install I did on a truck with no skid and see if I can tell what the difference between the two are. Great pics and information!

 

Glad I could help!

Appreciate you, Eric.

Ed

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What are the specs on the hardware, anyone know? Or rather, where I can find the hardware specs for the trd skid and those bracer bar mounts.

To OP, interesting design as I was just looking at Cat Security today. I very much prefer your branding icon compared to all their branding. If the discount was 10-20% on a sale I'd be all in.

 

Try here:

https://parts.passporttoyota.com/p/...TRD-Front-Skid-Plate/75489794/PTR6035190.html

Give them a call to get the information you need.

Ed

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Sorry I have been MIA! I’m hoping to respond to everyone later tonight or in the morning in regards to the spacers.

 

I am not 100% sure on the TRD pro plate hardware, but the rest of the hardware is a JIS bolt that is M8 1.25X30mm long IIRC.

 

What year is your Tacoma? I have really only heard of one other person having this issue to date. It almost looks like you need two of the spacers on this truck VS the one I sent.

EDIT, looked at your profile and see it is a 2021. I need to try to find the other message and see what years his was too. Not sure if Toyota snuck in a slight change on the newest model.

 

One member mentioned the TRD Off Road comes with a thin skid plate that extends to the two bolt areas...I have a TRD Sport and as you can see from the photo, there is no plate extending that far.

In this photo I took of the underbelly of my 2021 TRD Sport, you can see the only plate I have is the one at the far-front by the Air Dam.



Here's the install showing the area I'm talking about. The spacers were corrected when I got home. (It still annoys me that I took that pic! Argh!!!)




Ed

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when do you estimate the skid plate package to be available?