Your truck is so awesome!

 

I would have never thought to bought that cover, but seeing it on the truck I think it looks great man. Definitely one sporty looking street machine

 

Got bored again and tried something out I've been wanting to do for awhile. Carbon fibered the inside of my instrument cluster last week to match the trim in the truck. Turned out awesome. The inside silver part around where the display screen is I painted satin black and then vinyl wrapped the front silver portion of the cluster that remained. WARNING- It is very hard to separate the lens from the cluster if anyone is thinking about trying to do this. About an hour with a heat gun and pry tools. You CAN'T bake this piece like a headlight to separate the lens there are too many small clips and thin pieces of plastic behind it. It would end up looking like a Salvador Dali painting.

 

Here a the only thing close to a before pic I have to compare the two. The weird screen like pattern on the before pic is because I took a pic of a pic I had on another computer.

 

I am new to the forum, so please bear with me. I have an XLT 4x4 and have a couple of questions for you. Reading through, I see you are a painter, but I am curious about the painted bumper. What process did you go through? Did you strip the chrome first or just paint over it? With the door handles, does the chrome peel off easily and then I am assuming you painted the hanedles? Is there a special process to get rid of the chrome on the handles? Finally, it looks like you are 4wd. Is that correct? I have been debating about lowering my 4wd too. Thanks in advance. Truck looks great.

 

The bumpers were sandblasted and then sealed, based and cleared. Only because there was sandblasting going on at the shop when I did it. If you know what you're doing you can paint over chrome if its prepped right. I painted over the chrome grille and have had no issue at all. The handles were just stuck on pieces I took off they were color matched from the factory (non chrome package) I peeled the 4x4 sticker off the day I got the truck. I have the rear blocks removed and a full Belltech kit installed to further lower it (approx 2/4 drop now)

 

Just moved east (Ontario to New Brunswick) one tank of gas 1017km not too shabby for the ol 5.4 averaged 12L/100km or 19.4 mpg. 34km left to go when I pulled into the gas station.

 

That is NOT something you hear often... Lol.

 

I know, my wife is in the military. NB is home for us. We're pretty pumped to be back!

 

You get bored a lot! Really, good work and you obviously have mad skills to do stuff like this. I wish you lived near me and I could buy you a beer or six and get you to do some of this stuff to my truck...