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The TRD bump stops are smaller than the stock ones, I guess to allow a little more travel to compensate for the drop. They’re not the same. You shouldn’t ever have an issue at all though.
You wouldn’t lose warranty anyway unless it was the root cause of the issue. TRD and Eibach are the most mild drop. I used TRDs so Toyota couldn’t argue with me if something did happen.
The guy that owns the one in the pic lives in Peru and said it came stock like that there so I’m guessing maybe they don’t have the radar like ours do.
I’ve seen a ton of people paint the emblem black or put vinyl over it and I don’t think I’ve seen any reports of the system being adversely affected. If it’s just microwave radar is should transmit through plastic just fine. I don’t think the stock emblem is transparent because I don’t see any...