You don't have to care, and that's cool too

You may or may not keep your vehicle's very long, so those things don't matter as much.

 

haha, i mean i care, I havent been active on a forum in years, modded mustangs was the last forum I was on and i sold my stang in 2013. I knew everything about that car. I am trying to get there with my truck, I keep my vehicles until they start giving me multiple expensive problems.

Sold my 2012 F 150 5.0 in October and bought this truck as a replacement. My 5.0 had only 37 psi in the #8 cylinder, took it to the dealership and asked about trade in and they gave me 9500 on trade in and the truck had 160k miles on it. I will hopefully be in this truck until around the same mileage.

 

Maybe not today, but recently...
A new transmission filter and fluid.
A transfer case fluid change.

Here is a documentary...

 

Fair enough, if i care more about these sorts of things i'll have a better chance of them lasting longer.

These details are usually more a case of all the shades of grey, rather than being a black and white failure - in reality, it's genuinely hard to kill engines without resorting to things even massively careless people wouldn't do. If i take an extra level of care over the long lifespan i normally keep vehicles for, then Vs. the same vehicle over the same time/use, mine can be a lighter shade of grey at the same mileage.

 

I can get behind that, I am falling in love with modding vehicles again with this truck. I had a heavily modded 09 mustang gt I built myself and once I sold that I fell away from modding. My 2012 f 150 was the first vehicle since then I leveled is all, and I did that out of necessity living on a ranch. Now I have had this 2015 for 3 months and I have a drop in AEM Air filter, level, tinted windows, have a resonator delete pipe on the way, and will be ordering a tuner here eventually. Then hopefully this spring I can justify 34 inch tires to the wife (my stock tires are in amazing shape, new when I bought it...haha)
This is why I find myself on here more and more, I am having fun with this truck and would like to learn a few things along the way! thanks btw,.

 

Installed GTR CSP minis in the lows/highs/fogs and removed the dealer emblem off my tailgate.

 

Scheduled an oil change and service for thrusday morning. Trying to decide on new front rotors, mine been warped since 13k. They say no turning on them now days, new ford rotors are $230 plus labor. yuk...

 

And? How do they look? U happy with them? Pics?

 

The front lift ended up being right at 1.75" which was the advertised lift with the 2nd highest setting on the Bilsteins. No change in the rear height with just shocks. Need a block or different springs to raise the rear. Also running the stock upper control arms which are adequate for such a small level. Anything over 2.5" and you will run into issues with the upper arms and the CV angles.

 

no real good pics yet, I have to adjust the drivers down as well. A little of the “scatter you see in the pic is my camera through the windshield...they don’t seem to “scatter” any more then halogens

they seem to have a little more scatter then the diode dynamic ones, but I expected that since they were decently cheaper.