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Thanks guys! Do you find that not having the power fold feature is a pain? I park mine in the garage, so I feel like I should endure the pain of more money and a pita install to upgrade to the power fold ones. Thoughts?
i don't find it a pain. I had my tow mirrors upgraded at the dealer and just took the stock mirrors wth me. So I never got to use the folding feature. I rarely park in garages tho, but even in regular parking lots I don't find them bad, and I definitely don't fold them in manually lmao!
Looks good. Thanks for posting! Much appreciated!!
You are very welcome. As you can see the stock tires look tiny then adding a slight light sure didn't help anything. These tires only have 20k on them or so and are wearing nicely. Place I bought it from put brand new ones on for me at 21k miles.
I will get some larger ones probably 285.65.20 or so size. That puts them close to 32" That should fill in the wheel arch a bit better. I will probably go with an all season highway tire as I rarely like never see any off road.
Oh also I don't have the power folding mirrors. I have the ford OEM mirrors, as my truck came with them from the factory some max tow package thing. Sometimes it sure would be nice. From hitting the pheasant with my passenger mirror, I now have on order the ford OEM replacement. I didn't care for some of the aftermarket quality. These were $550 shipped from tasca. Exactly what I have on my truck now. The ford OEM mirror for one side was $525, and for the pair you guessed it $25 bucks more through their Accessory department.
Love the tow mirrors. I will never have a truck without them again. Just be informed that most of the aftermarket do NOT have the convex lower mirrors nor do they have the magnification passenger mirror, ie "objects in mirror are closer then they appear"
Both of those were a deal breaker for me. I used those lower convex mirrors every time I back up or change lanes. They are so handy.
305/55 (33x12) with a 1.5 autospring level up front. I think when the weather breaks I'm going to change the chrome mirror caps out for the black textured ones.
I'm thinking some trim levels have the auto dimming. Not sure though. My xlt just has heat, power adjust, and puddle lights. Manual fold and no auto dim.
My truck is a lariat. Mirrors are power on the top half only. I don't think any of the tow portions are powered. I believe they are heated chrome caps and manual telescoping and manual fold.
My replacements are the ford factory ones that are the same.
I just put the Bilstein 5100's on with them set at 1.5 stock tires and power fold tow mirrors... Love the look. Started out with the nonpower fold tow mirrors, changed to the smaller power fold but just couldn't get used to them. Added back power fold mirrors.
01-24-2017, 09:43 AM
