I wonder what the youngest year for blind spot was. actually, really dumb question, can you personally install blind spot? like buy those LED BLIS tail lamps and install yourself??

 

On XLT's? I think it was '18 but I'm not positive. I have become very fond of it to be honest. I had a '12 (of course without it) and a different '18 without it and while I could certainly live without it, I probably wouldn't buy another without it. It's standard now I believe so hopefully when I upgrade (which I'm praying isn't for quite a while) the new or used one will have it no matter the trim. BTW - '15, '16, and '17 5.0's are phenomenal plants. IMO '13 though '17 were the best 302s ever built. Some '11s and '12s had issues (my '12 did not) and some '18's and up had issues (my '18 did). As far as driving one, easy as pie. I went from a 2000 F150 to the '12 and it took a bit to figure out how to park it without looking like an idiot. I parallel park mine pretty well now lol. There is a reason a lot of crew cab owners back into spaces. It's easier!

You can totally add BLIS as far back as '15 (302A may be a necessity, I have no idea) to XLT's. If you have the $ and the desire you can dang near turn an XL into a Lariat - or a Raptor for that matter. You go down the mod road and it can get stupid expensive. I had a '13 Mustang I dreamed of turning into a supercharged muscle machine - knowing it was going to cost me 10k plus to do it just in parts. I only paid 20k for the car itself. New. I wanted less bling than a track package blah blah blah so I bought the base and applied for an AMEX!

https://www.f150forum.com/f118/how-a...t-302a-422150/

also here in firerunners build thread - which has all the harnesses etc... needed : https://www.f150forum.com/f78/franke...77165/index15/

and there are probably other threads.

Those pretty lamps and mirrors are not cheap. Mine are NOT powerfold mirrors, just regular black manual fold BLIS mirrors. If you EVER decide to undertake this you'd need to find the appropriate year VIN with that as a factory option to order/buy the parts from Ford I believe. Easy enough if you look at enough used F150's on ford dealership sites. I would dearly love to add powerfold mirrors to mine but I am cheap, er - frugal I mean..... I have grown up a lot since my day's of wanting a Whipple on a toy. My BLIS was a $600 option - you aren't adding it for $600

I'd buy a Lariat if I could stand leather. My XLT was 54k new..... You could have had a nice mid level Lariat for that in '18 with gobs of options. I suspect the original owner was like me, anti leather. If you want Lariat goodies - buy the Lariat. Nothing is really plug and play on these machines and vehicles aren't going to be much (if any) less expensive this time next year. It's going to take some time for the used car market to calm down. I'm thinking 2-3 years unless the economy really tanks. New cars ain't ever gonna be 10-15k off of sticker again. Not in my lifetime. I paid 38k for mine with 24k miles a year ago. Now I could sell mine for 40k and it's got almost 40k miles. Original owner probably paid 43k new TOPS, maybe as little as the 40k I could get right now.